Very pleased to see this article out in Early Medieval Europe! In which I ask what made someone a 'thegn' in the century or so before the Conquest (and whether it really took five hides of land to become one).
Richard Purkiss
Just dropped: @richardpurkiss.bsky.social on thegns in tenth- and eleventh-century England. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth- and eleventh-century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face-to-face service aristocracy with specific attribut...
