Secular power and its rewards in Dorset in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries.
Secular administration was in large part the business of the readily identifiable holders of specific offices in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, but alongside these operated individuals who held more informal authority. Its very intangibility has made any assessment of the importance...
| Published in: | Historical Research Vol. 82; no. 215; pp. 2 - 17 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Feb2009
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