Ann Williams is een specialist in de geschiedenis van Angelsaksisch Engeland. Ze is Fellow van de Society of Antiquaries en onderzoeksmedewerker aan de University of East Anglia. Eerder was ze van 1965 tot 1988 docent geschiedenis aan het 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