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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Danelaw"”.
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Wessex and the origins of the Danelaw: Borders, frontiers, and borderlands
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Scandinavian Influence on English Law, c. 870-1215
… by their legal practices and termed the Danelaw, with legal differences visible in English texts such as the c. 997 ‘Wantage Code’. Past historiography has primarily searched for English legal origins within Anglo-Saxon traditions or Norman innovations, while inadequate attention has been …
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Explaining Viking expansion
… of expansion that led to the formation of the Danelaw in England circa AD 870. Over time, the eventual adoption of Christianity and feudal relationships within Scandinavia would bring expansion as well as the Viking Age to a close.
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To what extent do the writings of Archbishop Wulfstan of York demonstrate a survival of heathen practices?
… for the survival of heathen practices within the Danelaw. I will study both the writings of Wulfstan and his contemporary Ælfric of Eynsham as well as earlier works that provide crucial background, such as the penitentials as well as later works in terms of two sagas which, although written later …