The legal texts of pre-Conquest England reveal the capacities and limits of the king\'s regulatory power, and provide key evidence for the process by which disparate kingdoms merged to become a unified English state.
Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises.
They offer unparalleled insight into Anglo-Saxon England\'s diverse inhabitants - those who enforced the law and those subject to it.
The legal texts of pre-Conquest England reveal the capacities and limits of the king\'s regulatory power, and provide key evidence for the process by which disparate kingdoms merged to become a unified English state