Language, Law, and Landscape in the Anglo-Saxon World
Jeremy Harte
Legal assemblies in the pre-Roman Germanic world derived their power from ritual actions and patron deities. This legitimacy persisted throughout period of state formation formed a basis for popular negotiation with expanding rule chieftains kings. In Anglo-Saxon England significant landscapes meeting, which included stones, trees, hills, continued to have symbolic value after Christianization. Through analysis place-names early administrative boundaries, it is possible reconstruct pre-state territories central assemblies, trace history into later periods as archaic places memory.
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