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Before the [[History of Anglo-Saxon England#English unification (10th century)|unification of England in the tenth century]], separate {{lang|ang|witans}} were convened by the kings of the various [[Anglo-Saxon kingdoms]].{{cn|date=April 2024}} |
Before the [[History of Anglo-Saxon England#English unification (10th century)|unification of England in the tenth century]], separate {{lang|ang|witans}} were convened by the kings of the various [[Anglo-Saxon kingdoms]].{{cn|date=April 2024}} |
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The {{lang|ang|witan}} could meet anywhere at any time. Christmas, Lent, and Easter were favorite times because many nobles were at the royal court. [[Anglo-Saxon London|London]] and [[Winchester]] were common locations.{{Sfn|Lyon|1980|p=46}} The king and his [[Itinerant court|court were itinerant]], and {{lang|ang|witenagemot}}s are known to have met in at least 116 locations, including [[Amesbury]], [[Calne]], [[Cheddar, Somerset|Cheddar]], and [[Gloucester]]. The meeting places were often on royal estates, but some {{lang|ang|witenagemot}}s were convened in the open at prominent rocks, hills, meadows and famous trees.<ref>''Toward the Origins of Christmas'' {{ISBN|9-039-00531-1}}</ref>{{better source|date=April 2024}} |
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Revision as of 04:47, 29 April 2024
* Lyon, Ann (2016). Constitutional History of the UK (2nd ed.). Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-20398-8.
Etymology
Origins
Before the unification of England in the tenth century, separate witans were convened by the kings of the various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.[citation needed]
Attendance and locations
Role
Electing and deposing kings
When a king died, the witan nominally elected a new king. When a king gained power by conquest, he was careful to gain the witan's assent.[1]
Norman conquest
Historiography
Notes
References
Bibliography
- Chadwick, H. M. (1905). Studies on Anglo-Saxon Institutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Garmonsway, George Norman, ed. (1954). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (2nd ed.). London.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Hindley, Geoffrey (2006). A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons. London: Robinson.
- Hodgkin, Thomas, The History of England from the Earliest Times to the Norman Conquest (New York, 1906; repr. New York 1969)
- Lapidge, Michael; et al., eds. (2001). The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Wiley. ISBN 9-780-63122-492-1.
- Leyser, Henrietta (2017). A Short History of the Anglo-Saxons. London: I. B. Taurus. ISBN 978-1-78076-600-3.
- Liebermann, Felix (1913). The National Assembly in the Anglo-Saxon Period. Halle: Max Niemeyer.
- Loyn, H. R. (1984). The Governance of Anglo-Saxon England, 500–1087. Governance of England. Vol. 1. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804712170.
- Lyon, Bryce (1980). A Constitutional and Legal History of Medieval England (2nd ed.). W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-95132-4. 1st edition available at the Internet Archive.
- Maddicott, J. R. (2010). The Origins of the English Parliament. Oxford University Press.
- Roach, Levi (2013). Kingship and Consent in Anglo-Saxon England, 871–978: Assemblies and the State in the Early Middle Ages. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9-781-10703-653-6.
- Robertson, Agnes, ed. (1956). Anglo-Saxon Charters (2nd ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 504288415.
- Sturdy, David (1995). Alfred the Great. Constable. p. 124.
- Thorpe, Benjamin (1840). Ancient Laws and Institutes of England. G. E. Eyre and A. Spottiswoode, printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.
- Whitelock, Dorothy, Review of The Witenagemot in the Reign of Edward the Confessor by Tryggvi J. Oleson, The English Historical Review 71 (1956): 640–42.
- Wormald, Patrick (1999). The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-13496-4.