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Glass beads, Anglo-Saxon --- -Anglo-Saxon glass beads --- Expertising --- Expertising. --- -Expertising

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Sometime before the middle of the twelfth century, an anonymous English writer composed the Leges Edwardi, a treatise purporting to contain the laws that had been in force under the Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), cousin of William the Conqueror. The laws were said to have been spoken to William shortly after the Conquest by "English nobles who were wise men and learned in their law," recounting "the rules of their laws and customs" for the invading Norman king. When they had finished, the king wondered whether it might not be better for all of them to live under the law of his Viking ancestors; the English, however, protested that they preferred to live by their own preconquest laws. The king acquiesced, and thus, goes the story, were the laws of King Edward the Confessor authorized.Looking through the lens of this important—if spurious—treatise, God's Peace and King's Peace offers the first ground-level view of English law during the century in which the common law was born. Bruce R. O'Brien compares the Leges Edwardi to other memorials of legal policy and practice from before and after 1066, in both Normandy and England, and advances conclusions about the treatises' reliability on specific points of law. He also shows how the Laws of Edward the Confessor, taken as a record of English law at the conquest, came to be used as authoritative evidence behind the Magna Carta that the king was under the law, and how it was eventually declared a notorious forgery by seventeenth-century antiquaries and Enlightenment historians.

Law, Anglo-Saxon --- Droit anglo-saxon --- Leges Edwardi Confessoris --- Leges Edwardi Confessoris. --- Law --- History. --- Sources. --- Droit --- Histoire --- Sources --- History --- Anglo-Saxon law

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Beowulf is the longest and finest literary work to have come down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, and one of the world's greatest epic poems. Set in the half-legendary, half historical Scandinavian past, it tells the story of the hero Beowulf, who comes to the aid of the Danish king Hrothgar by killing first the terrifying, demonic monster Grendel, and then Grendel's infuriated and vengeful mother. A lifetime later, Beowulf's own kingdom, Geatland, isthreatened by a fiery dragon; Beowulf heroically takes on this challenge, but himself dies killing the dragon.The poem celebrates the virtues of the heroic life, but Hrothgar and Beowulf are beacons of wisdom and courage in a dark world of feuds, violence and uncertainty, and Beowulf's selfless heroism is set against a background of ruthless power struggles, fratricide and tyranny.

English poetry --- Epic poetry, English (Old) --- Anglo-Saxon epic poetry --- English epic poetry, Old --- Epic poetry, Anglo-Saxon --- Old English epic poetry

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Book history --- type [composition equipment] --- Anglo-Saxon [language] --- anno 1500-1599 --- England

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Anglo-Saxons --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Anglo-saxons --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Congresses. --- Congresses --- Congrès --- England --- Scandinavia --- Angleterre --- Scandinavie --- Antiquities --- History --- Antiquités --- Histoire --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Congrès --- Antiquités --- Kings and rulers --- Great Britain --- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066