Tom Lambert was born and grew up in York. He spent nearly a decade based at the University of Durham, as an undergraduate, postgraduate, and seminar tutor. Since gaining his doctorate in 2009, he has held a Past and Present Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research in London, and spent five very happy years teaching and researching in Oxford. Much of the work for Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England was carried out between 2012 and 2015, when he was the Bennett Boskey Fellow in History at Exeter College, Oxford. He is now a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

This is an important book. Representing the most significant rethinking of Anglo-Saxon law and order ... its arguments will be rehearsed and revisited for years to come ... This is a truly superb first monograph, which will not only change the way we approach Anglo-Saxon law and order, but how we think about legislation and society in the early medieval West more generally. I cannot recommend it strongly enough.

• PART I: THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON LEGAL ORDER; PART II: ORDER AND "THE STATE" IN LATE ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND

Tom Lambert was born and grew up in York. He spent nearly a decade based at the University of Durham, as an undergraduate, postgraduate, and seminar tutor. Since gaining his doctorate in 2009, he has held a Past and Present Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research in London, and spent five very happy years teaching and researching in Oxford. Much of the work for Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England was carried out between 2012 and 2015, when he was the Bennett Boskey Fellow in History at Exeter College, Oxford. He is now a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

This is an important book. Representing the most significant rethinking of Anglo-Saxon law and order ... its arguments will be rehearsed and revisited for years to come ... This is a truly superb first monograph, which will not only change the way we approach Anglo-Saxon law and order, but how we think about legislation and society in the early medieval West more generally. I cannot recommend it strongly enough.

• PART I: THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON LEGAL ORDER; PART II: ORDER AND "THE STATE" IN LATE ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND