English Dictionary

witenagemot

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈwɪtənəjəməʊt/

名詞

可算名詞 時々 不可算名詞 通常

(history, usually uncountable, sometimes countable) Any of several assemblies which existed in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th century, initially with regional jurisdiction (there being different ones in Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex and Wessex), later with national jurisdiction, made up of important noblemen.

日本語の意味

アングロサクソン時代の7世紀から11世紀に存在した、重要貴族から構成された会議や評議会。最初は各地方（エセックス、ケント、マーシア、ノーサンブリア、サセックス、ウエセックス）の地域権限を持ち、後に全国規模の権限を有する体制であった。

Historians often study the records of the witenagemot to understand how authority was shared among the realm's leading families.

歴史家たちは、権力が王国の有力な氏族の間でどのように分配されていたかを理解するために、アングロ・サクソン期の貴族評議会の記録をしばしば調査する。

意味（1）

(history, usually uncountable, sometimes countable) Any of several assemblies which existed in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th century, initially with regional jurisdiction (there being different ones in Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex and Wessex), later with national jurisdiction, made up of important noblemen.

To this study was necessarily added that of the ecclesiastical canons; and the knowledge of each must have given the clergy a great superiority, both as legislators in the witenagemot, and as magistrates in the different courts, at which it was their duty to attend.

意味（2）

(history, countable) A specific session of such an assembly.

witenagemots （ plural ）