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Britons in early Wessex: The evidence of the Law Code of Ine
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Abstract
One of the 'facts' about the modern study of Anglo-British relations is the extent to which the historian, generally speaking, is afforded a very circumscribed array of references with which to work, and the more so for the early Anglo-Saxon period. Certainly, a reasonable corpus of material survives which can be accessed to inform an understanding of how Anglo-Saxons and Britons may have interacted with one another, but the issue has to be approached by examining often peripheral and sometimes incidental references in a range of texts written for a variety of different purposes. And when attention is focussed specifically on the investigation of putative Britons living within Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, the selection from which to choose narrows quite substantially. It is in this context that the Law Code of Ine, king of Wessex c.688-726, deserves particular attention as it provides a rare glimpse of Britons living within an Anglo-Saxon
kingdom around the turn of the eighth century.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Authors/Creators: | Grimmer, MR |
Publisher: | The Boydell Press |
Additional Information: | © Martin Grimmer 2007 |
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