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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Witan"”.
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The Warrior and the Witan: Searching For the Culture of Wisdom In Beowulf
… the role of the community's formal council, the witan, has not been adequately examined. This group should be juxtaposed with Beowulf who, as a warrior, exhibits the values of individualism, while the witan embodies the values of the community. These communal values are represented, throughout …
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Rulers and the Wolf: Archbishop Wulfstan, Anglo-Saxon Kings, and the Problems of His Present
… texts were aimed at the king, himself, and his witan. They stressed both the essentiality of law and order and the importance of the king to society as a whole. His texts from Cnut's reign, however, reveal that it is not primarily the king that interested Wulfstan during these years, but, …
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‘hwonne habbe we ðonne ne gemotad?’; Narrative Strategies in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century English Property Disputes
… methods used by litigants and members of the witan when closing a dispute. Chapter Five assesses the lawsuit documents’ references to violent acts committed by iii the Libellus Æthelwoldi, contemporary hagiography, and Æthelredian diplomas. This chapter firstly examines the meaning and …
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The Winchester chronicle
… towards centralization. On the other hand, the Witan was relatively unimportant, more so than modern historians seem to think. Among the nobility, the most important figures were the ealdormen or earls, the royal representatives in the shires. These earls were often powerful enough to lead …