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1 online resource (xxix, 335 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Introduction -- Simon Keynes: the man and the scholar -- Part I: The formation of power: the early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms -- Bede's kings -- Hagiography and charters in early Northumbria -- Origins of the kingdom of the English -- Losing the plot? 'filthy assertions' and 'unheard-of deceit' in Codex Carolinus 92 -- Part II: Authority and its articulation in late Anglo-Saxon England -- Fathers and daughters: the case of Æthelred II -- The historian and Anglo-Saxon coinage: the case of late Anglo-Saxon England -- Charters and exemption from Geld in Anglo -- Saxon England -- On living in the time of tribulation: Archbishop Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi and Anglos and its eschatological context -- A tale of two charters: diploma production and political performance in Æthelredian England -- Part III: Books, texts and power -- Making manifest God's judgement: interpreting ordeals in late Anglo-Saxon England -- An eleventh-century prayer-book for women?: the origins and history of the Galba prayer-book -- Writing Latin and Old English in tenth-century England: patterns, formalae and language choice in the leases of Oswald of Worcester -- Index. |
| Summary |
The workings of royal and ecclesiastical authority in Anglo-Saxon England can only be understood on the basis of direct engagement with original texts and material artefacts. This book, written by leading experts, brings together new research that represents the best of the current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England. Ranging from the seventh to the eleventh century, the chapters in this volume offer fresh approaches to a wide range of linguistic, historical, legal, diplomatic and palaeographical evidence. Central themes include the formation of power in early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms during the age of Bede (d. 735) and Offa of Mercia (757-96), authority and its articulation in the century from Edgar (959-75) to 1066, and the significance of books and texts in expressing power across the period. Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England represents a critical resource for students and scholars alike with an interest in early medieval history from political, institutional and cultural perspectives. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
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Manuscripts, English (Old)
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Manuscripts, English (Old) |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. |
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Great Britain. |
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449-1066 |
| Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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History.
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Festschriften.
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| Added Author |
Naismith, Rory.
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Woodman, David A., 1981- editor.
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Keynes, Simon, honouree.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Writing, kingship and power in Anglo-Saxon England. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2018] 1107160979 (OCoLC)991315829 |
| ISBN |
9781108501484 (electronic book) |
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1108501486 (electronic book) |
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9781316676066 |
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1316676064 |
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1107160979 |
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9781107160972 |
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