10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THANEHOOD»
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thanehood in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Studies
textual materialism 134 Textus Roffensis 110 Thacker, A. 275 Thecla 201–2, 206,
207 þegn (thanehood) 139 Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury 57, 194, 273,
275 Theodoric, emperor 168 A Thesaurus of Old English 33 Thomas, S. 136 ...
Jacqueline Stodnick, Renée Trilling, 2012
2
The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in ...
Secondly, by superposing a new feudal nobility as the upper stratum of society, it
transformed the Old-English thanehood into the finest middle-class of rural gentry
and yeomanry that has ever existed in any country ; a point of especial interest ...
3
English Society in the Eleventh Century: Essays in English ...
The desperate, though ineffectual, attempts of Anglo- Danish and Saxon kings to
organize the commonwealth on the basis of thanehood led to a wholesale
disestablishment of the twyhind class, of the ceorls who occupy such a
conspicuous ...
4
Lexical Semantics and Diachronic Morphology: The Development ...
... apehood nl 516 1 familyhood nl 42765 1 siblinghood nl 458 1 single-hood nl
19673 1 moranhood nl 437 1 Order-Brotherhood nl 11677 1 (brother) urchinhood
nl 197 1 faggothood nl 72 1 clienthood nl 10959 1 thanehood l 67 1 patienthood
...
5
Corporations: A Study of the Origin and Development of Great ...
If the word "Cnicht" be equivalent to "Thane," then it may be inferred that the
Thanes' gild of Cambridge was also composed, to some extent, of the same class
, especially as it is known that thanehood could be acquired by making three ...
6
The Life and Time of Alfred the Great
... been part of Alfred's military 3) Num- policy to increase considerably the
number of thanes, by thanes in conferring the privileges, and enforcing the
obligations of creoawd. thanehood on all owners of five hides of land, an estate 1
Birch, No.
7
The Companion to British History
... his service, his achievements, wealth, persona! character and age Thegns
were necessarily young only in the mythical past. Thanehood carried a vvcrgild ol
12IHI shillings, and in the Danelaw someiimes fvcn higher. It was not hereditary
but ...
Charles Arnold-Baker, 2001
8
Shakespeare Matters: History, Teaching, Performance
His father, Si- nell, is remembered only because his death authorizes Macbeth's
thanehood; but his mother has no existence in the play. No word in the drama
adverts or alludes to a place or time in which the parents of Macbeth possessed ...
9
Literature in the senior high school ...
For the old thanehood, which might have grown into such a caste, was pushed
down into a secondary position, and the peerage which arose after the Conquest
was something different from a noblesse. It was primarily a nobility of office rather
...
Thomas Henry Briggs, Max John Herzberg, Emma Miller Bolenius, 1933
10
The Progressive Dictionary of the English Language: A ...
... red dye. and its juice yields au excellent black varnish. Written also Thitttfe,
Thietnf^. and Thetsee. The u;ltll er(rhe-Kl(n er ),(u(r. Together. [Scotch.] Tin n n (
than), n. game as Thane. Thegu hood ( thin hud ), n. Thanehood. E. A. Freeman.
