Ann Williams ist eine Spezialistin für die Geschichte des angelsächsischen Englands. Sie ist Fellow der Society of Antiquaries und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der University of East Anglia. Zuvor war sie von 1965 bis 1988 Dozentin für Geschichte am Polytechnic of North London.
Despite the growing centralisation of medieval papal government, this study argues that twelfth-century papal councils - a critical mechanism for contemporary papal government - relied on input from local clerics to formulate the conciliar decrees and, later, ensure their dissemination, thereby limiting the influence of the papacy.
This book is a study of the exercise of royal authority before the Norman Conquest. Six centuries separate the 'adventus Saxonum' from the battle of Hastings: during those long years, the English kings changed from warlords, who exacted submission by force, into law-givers to whom obedience was a moral duty. In the process, they created many of the administrative institutes which continued to serve their successors. They also created England: the united kingdom of the English people.
A series which is a model of its kind: Edmund King