Land and Book

Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Medieval, British
Cover of the book Land and Book by Scott Thompson Smith, University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
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Author: Scott Thompson Smith ISBN: 9781442666092
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Publication: October 28, 2012
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Scott Thompson Smith
ISBN: 9781442666092
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Publication: October 28, 2012
Imprint:
Language: English

In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex range of conceptual values that Anglo-Saxons could use to engage a number of vital cultural concerns beyond just the legal and practical – such as political dominion, salvation, sanctity, status, and social and spiritual obligations.

Land and Book places a variety of texts – including charters, dispute records, heroic poetry, homilies, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle – in a dynamic conversation with the procedures and documents of land tenure, showing how its social practice led to innovation across written genres in both Latin and Old English. Through this, Smith provides an interdisciplinary synthesis of literary, legal, and historical interests.

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In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex range of conceptual values that Anglo-Saxons could use to engage a number of vital cultural concerns beyond just the legal and practical – such as political dominion, salvation, sanctity, status, and social and spiritual obligations.

Land and Book places a variety of texts – including charters, dispute records, heroic poetry, homilies, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle – in a dynamic conversation with the procedures and documents of land tenure, showing how its social practice led to innovation across written genres in both Latin and Old English. Through this, Smith provides an interdisciplinary synthesis of literary, legal, and historical interests.

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