Payments for land and privilege in Anglo-Saxon England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11451571 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rory Naismith (0000-0002-2962-5691, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Pages | 277-342 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anglo-Saxon England (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-6751 • E-ISSN: 1474-0532 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0263675112000087 |
| OpenAlex | W2324936463 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
A little over five per cent of surviving Anglo-Saxon charters contain some reference to money or purchase. These cover a multitude of transactions: gifts, sales, bequests, annual renders, and so on. They provide a valuable insight into Anglo-Saxon perceptions of wealth and a detailed view of one specific area of exchange. Gold and precious-metal objects emerge as especially prominent, at the expense of silver coin. The formulation of these documents, however, presents a number of obstacles to interpretation, particularly in that no definitive distinction between charters of gift and sale developed in Anglo-Saxon England. Diverse forms of transactions can be exemplified among them – outright purchase, payment for book-right (with or without an earlier claim to the land in question) and gifts to neutralize potential challenges of title – but these show little correlation with ‘price’ or with the complex social background to every act of exchange
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| Citations per year | 0.46 |
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| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |