Official and unofficial Latin words in 11th- and 12th-century England
<p>Earl and thegn, shire and sheriff, are English terms of considerable importance for the governance of England in the 11th century. I say ‘terms’ advisedly to reflect the precise sense of what they denote, because, although all three words carry a range of possible meanings, they are also pa...
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Oxford University Press
2017
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