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Vor einem Tag · The book is divided into two parts, the first entitled ‘The foundations of the Anglo-Saxon legal order’. Chapter one examines laws before Æthelberht, whose codification of law is typically approached as an ideological assertion of Romano-Christian kingship. Lambert does not challenge this judgment so much as refine it: first by ...
Vor einem Tag · Alfred the Great (also spelled Ælfred; c.849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young.
Vor 3 Tagen · Under Æthelberht‘s rule, Kent became a center of learning and culture, with the establishment of a scriptorium at Canterbury where many important religious texts were produced (Yorke, 2006). The laws of Kent, codified during Æthelberht‘s reign, provide valuable insights into early Anglo-Saxon legal customs and social structure ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Explores English legal culture and practice across the Anglo-Saxon period, beginning with the essentially pre-Christian laws enshrined in writing by King Æthelberht of Kent in c. 600 and working forward to the Norman Conquest of 1066.
Vor 2 Tagen · Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
2. Mai 2024 · In 578 AD, Bertha, a Frankish princess was married to Æthelberht, ruler of the kingdom of Kent. Bertha was a devout Christian but Anglo-Saxon England was a pagan country. Her marriage to the pagan king was conditional upon her freedom to practice the Christian faith.
20. Mai 2024 · The writer first speaks of the magnificent furnishing of the altars by Archbishop Æthelberht, who acceded in 767, a quarter of a century after the fire. His detailed description of the altars and their decoration is immediately followed by the words: Ast nova basilicae mirae structura diebus Praesulis hujus erat jam caepta, peracta ...
