Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-291) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Assembling consent in ninth- and tenth-century England -- Assembly attendance -- Meeting places and times of assemblies -- Royal charters and assemblies -- Legislation and consent : Law making and assembly politics -- Symbols in context : ritual and demonstration at assemblies -- The witan and the settlement of disputes -- The "further business" of the witan -- Ritual and reality : the problem of the sources -- The role of the witan : celebration and persuasion.
Series:
Cambridge studies in Medieval life and thought. Fourth series ; 92
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