Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England - Lambert, Tom (Fellow in History, Fellow in History, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)

The only modern book-length account of Anglo-Saxon legal culture and practice, from the pre-Christian laws of thelberht of Kent (c. 600) up to the Norman conquest of 1066, charting the development of kings' involvement in law, in terms both of their authority to legislate and their ability to influence local practice.