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Land and Book: Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England (Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series) by Scott Thompson Smith is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex range of conceptual values that Anglo-Saxons could use to engage a number of vital cultural concerns beyond just the legal and practical – such as political dominion, salvation, sanctity, status, and social and spiritual obligations.</p> <p><b>Land and Book</b> places a variety of texts – including charters, dispute records, heroic poetry, homilies, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle – in a dynamic conversation with the procedures and documents of land tenure, showing how its social practice led to innovation across written genres in both Latin and Old English. Through this, Smith provides an interdisciplinary synthesis of literary, legal, and historical interests.</p>

Who reads Land and Book: Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England (Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series)?

Author

Scott Thompson Smith

Publisher

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442644861

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction