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Royal Estates in Anglo-Saxon Wessex: Land, politics and family strategies
Ryan Lavelle
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This work, focusing on specific categories of royal estates, concentrates on the later Anglo-Saxon period in England (the mid-ninth century to the mid-eleventh AD). These centuries were a formative period in early medieval history, in which a state can be seen to have developed from a small kingdom to take control of lowland Britain, and, indeed, exert political influence over much of the rest of Britain. The area of this study consists of royal lands in the two shires of Hampshire and Dorset as set out in the folios of Domesday Book. Royal estates were lands used to support kings and their immediate retinue, and lands granted by kings to members of the royal family. Lands of royal agents are also examined in this work.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Table of Contents
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Tables and Illustrations
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Preface
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List of Abbreviations Used
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Chapter One: Introduction: Placing Royal Estates
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Chapter Two: The Farm of One Night
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Chapter Three: Royal Presence and the King’s Tun
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Chapter Four: Lands of the Royal Family
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Chapter Five: All the King’s Men? Land and Royal Service
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Conclusion
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Appendix 1
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Appendix 2
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Appendix 3
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Bibliography
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Index of People and Places
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Published: 2007
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407320946 (ebook)
- 9781407300993 (paperback)
BAR Number: B439
- British Isles
- Identity / Gender / Childhood / Ethnicity / Romanization
- Epigraphy / Ancient and Medieval Texts / Papyri
- Agriculture / Farming / Husbandry / Land-use / Irrigation
- Conflict / Military / Fortifications
- Migration Period, Early Medieval and Medieval
- Death / Burial / Cemeteries / Tombs
- Landscape Archaeology
- Trade / Exchange / Travel / Economy