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* Lyon, Ann (2016). Constitutional History of the UK (2nd ed.). Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-20398-8.
Etymology
Territorial scope
Before the unification of England in the tenth century, separate witans were convened by the kings of the various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.[citation needed]
The witan could meet anywhere at any time. Christmas, Lent, and Easter were favorite times because many nobles were at the royal court. London and Winchester were common locations.[1] The king and his court were itinerant, and witenagemots are known to have met in at least 116 locations, including Amesbury, Calne, Cheddar, and Gloucester. The meeting places were often on royal estates, but some witenagemots were convened in the open at prominent rocks, hills, meadows and famous trees.[2][better source needed]
Attendance
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.[3]
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.