PRISTINA LIBERTAS: LIBERTY AND THE ANGLO-SAXONS REVISITED
Julia Crick
The association between liberty and the Anglo-Saxons has been rendered mythical by later retellings, both in Middle Ages afterwards. This history notwithstanding, it is argued here that occupied a significant place early English documentary record. Originally part of cultural linguistic inheritance from late antiquity, notion was deployed churchmen defence monastic freedom eighth century onwards, creating an archival legacy which rewritten imitated centuries, becoming fixed institutional memory as fiscal legal freedoms bestowed on populations monasteries towns pre-Conquest kings.
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