How Long to Read The Place-name Kingston and Royal Power in Middle Anglo-Saxon England

How Long Does it Take to Read The Place-name Kingston and Royal Power in Middle Anglo-Saxon England?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 51 minutes to read The Place-name Kingston and Royal Power in Middle Anglo-Saxon England by Jill Bourne

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Description

In this significant study,Jill Bourne presents the corpus of all 70 surviving Kingston place-names, fromDevon to Northumberland, and investigates each one within its historical andlandscape context, in an attempt to answer the question, What is a Kingston?She addresses all previous published work on this recurrent place-name, bothscholarship with an etymological focus and contextual scholarship whichexamines the names within their wider context. The core of the work is thehypothesis that names of the type cyninges tun or cyning tun derivenot from independent coinages meaning 'manor/farm/enclosure of a king' in somegeneral sense, or in direct relation to the phrase cyninges tun, as itis sometimes assumed in the literature, as an equivalent to villa regia.The study explores connections between Kingstons and the cyninges-tuns andvill� regales of the documentary sources; considers the concept anddevelopment of early kingship and its possible origins, the laws of theearliest kings, the petty kingdoms, and emergence of the larger kingdoms forwhich the term Heptarchy was coined (but not used at the time); and paysparticular attention to Ancient Wessex, where more than half of the corpus ofKingston names are found, and to the early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of the Hwicceand Magons�te, where a further quarter lie.

How long is The Place-name Kingston and Royal Power in Middle Anglo-Saxon England?

The Place-name Kingston and Royal Power in Middle Anglo-Saxon England by Jill Bourne is 167 pages long, and a total of 42,919 words.

This makes it 56% the length of the average book. It also has 52% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Place-name Kingston and Royal Power in Middle Anglo-Saxon England Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 54 minutes to read The Place-name Kingston and Royal Power in Middle Anglo-Saxon England aloud.

What Reading Level is The Place-name Kingston and Royal Power in Middle Anglo-Saxon England?

The Place-name Kingston and Royal Power in Middle Anglo-Saxon England is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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