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    Volume 2
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 April 2012
    10 November 2011
    ISBN:
    9781139094122
    9781108036191
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139094122
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.72kg, 572 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History 1066-1450, History, Regional History Before 1500, British History Before 1066
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History 1066-1450, History, Regional History Before 1500, British History Before 1066
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History
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    This monumental 1849 publication was the first detailed analysis to compare Anglo-Saxon institutions with those of other Germanic peoples. The philologist and historian Kemble (1807–57) was born into a renowned family of actors, trained at Cambridge for both the bar and the church, but devoted his career to Germanic philology and Old English. His studies resulted in several books including a Beowulf edition (1833), a pioneering six-volume edition of Anglo-Saxon charters (Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici, 1839–48), and the posthumous Horae Ferales (1863), together with articles and translations in periodicals. He also corresponded for many years with Jacob Grimm. The Saxons drew heavily on Kemble's work on the charters. Volume 2 discusses how England changed under the Saxons, focusing on the powers and functions of the king, the ruling elite and the clergy, the role of the urban and rural population, and the situation of the poor.

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