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Land and Book

Name: Land and Book
Brand: University Of Toronto Press
SKU: 04797611
Price: 84.14 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Scott Thompson Smith
ISBN: 9781442644861

Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England

Scott Thompson Smith

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04797611

Publishers University Of Toronto Press, October 2012

In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure a... Full description

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In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex range of conceptual values that Anglo-Saxons could use to engage a number of vital cultural concerns beyond just the legal and practical - such as political dominion, salvation, sanctity, status, and social and spiritual obligations. Land and Book places a variety of texts - including charters, dispute records, heroic poetry, homilies, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - in a dynamic conversation with the procedures and documents of land tenure, showing how its social practice led to innovation across written genres in both Latin and Old English. Through this, Smith provides an interdisciplinary synthesis of literary, legal, and historical interests.