Witenagemot in the Reign of Edward the Confessor
This work presents a new approach to the problem of the constitution of the Witenagemot, and one which has produced interesting and valuable results. It was undertaken because no detailed and exhaustive study of the Witenagemot at a given moment of the Anglo-Saxon period exists, and, indeed, very little of any consequence had been written on the Witan since Liebermann''s The National Assembly in t...
This work presents a new approach to the problem of the constitution of the Witenagemot, and one which has produced interesting and valuable results. It was undertaken because no detailed and exhaustive study of the Witenagemot at a given moment of the Anglo-Saxon period exists, and, indeed, very little of any consequence had been written on the Witan since Liebermann''s The National Assembly in t...
