Tans

Tans (vidusl.lat. tainus, angl. thegn vai thane - no senvāc. degan, sennorv. þegn - "brīvs vīrs") - senajiem ģermāņiem sākotnēji cilts vadoņu karadraudzes locekļi, vēlāk atsevišķa karavīru kārta (protobruņinieki) Lielbritānijas salās.

Literatūra par šo tēmu

• Valsts un tiesību vēsture jēdzienos un terminos. / Sast. P.Valters. / - Divergens: Rīga, 2001., 18. lpp.

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• Anglo-Saxon Dictionary edited by Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller and Alistair Campbell. - Oxford University Press,, 1972. ISBN 0198631014
• H. R. Loyn. Gesiths and Thegns in Anglo-Saxon England from the Seventh to the Tenth Century. // The English Historical Review 70, No. 277 (Oct.ober1955), pp. 529-549
• Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History from the Earliest Times to the Reign of Edward the First by William Stubbs. - Oxford University Press, 1960

Resursi internetā par šo tēmu

• David Roffe. The King's thanes on the eve of the Norman Conquest.
• "The title 'thegn' on runestones: English and Danish examples.
• Canute, King of the English: Heriots and reliefs, c. 1016 - 1035 - the equivalent of "death duties" on the death of a thegn
• Charter of Wolverhampton, 985 AD