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Author | : Peter Fox |
Publisher | : Anglo-Saxon Books |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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The primary purpose of this book is to be an introduction to the subject of early Anglo-Saxon kingship. Central to that subject is the huge impact that conversion to Christianity had upon Anglo-Saxon kingship. The aim is to answer four major questions: How did kingship manifest itself pre and post conversion and what theories underpinned early Anglo-Saxon kingship? What were the implications of conversion on the practicalities of kingship? How did Christinity interact with kings, was it passive tool, or did it challenge kings? What was the impact of conversion to Christianity on Anglo-Saxon kingship?
Author | : Kathrin McCann |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2018-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786832933 |
Download Anglo-Saxon Kingship and Political Power Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Works on Anglo-Saxon kingship often take as their starting point the line from Beowulf: ‘that was a good king’. This monograph, however, explores what it means to be a king, and how kings defined their own kingship in opposition to other powers. Kings derived their royal power from a divine source, which led to conflicts between the interpreters of the divine will (the episcopate) and the individual wielding power (the king). Demonstrating how Anglo-Saxon kings were able to manipulate political ideologies to increase their own authority, this book explores the unique way in which Anglo-Saxon kings understood the source and nature of their power, and of their own authority.
Author | : Peter Hunter Blair |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 1977-09-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521216500 |
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This is a lucid, authoritative and well-balanced account of Anglo-Saxon history. Peter Hunter Blair's book has achieved classic status, and is published now with a new, up-to-date bibliography prepared by Simon Keynes. Between the end of the Roman occupation and the coming of the Normans, England was settled by Germanic races; the kingdom as a political unit was created, heathenism yielded to a vigorous Christian Church, superb works of art were made, and the English language - spoken and written - took its form. These origins of the English heritage are Hunter Blair's subject. The first two chapters survey Anglo-Saxon England: its wars, its invaders, its peoples and its kings. The remaining chapters deal with specific aspects of its culture: its Church, government, economy and literary achievement. Throughout the author uses illustrations and a wide range of sources - documents, archaeological evidence and place names - to illuminate the period as a whole.
Author | : Timothy Venning |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2013-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445624591 |
Download The Kings & Queens of Anglo-Saxon England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A major re-examination of an important period in British history
Author | : Peter Hunter Blair |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2003-07-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521537773 |
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This is a lucid, authoritative and well-balanced account of Anglo-Saxon history. The third edition includes an introduction by Simon Keynes. Between the end of the Roman occupation and the coming of the Normans, England was settled by Germanic races; the kingdom as a political unit was created, heathenism yielded to a vigorous Christian Church, superb works of art were made, and the English language - spoken and written - took its form. These origins of the English heritage are Hunter Blair's subject. The first two chapters survey Anglo-Saxon England: its wars, its invaders, its peoples and its kings. The remaining chapters deal with specific aspects of its culture: its Church, government, economy and literary achievement. Throughout the author uses illustrations and a wide range of sources - documents, archaeological evidence and place names - to illuminate the period as a whole. For this edition, Simon Keynes has prepared a thoroughly updated bibliography.
Author | : Gale R. Owen-Crocker |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 184383877X |
Download Kingship, Legislation and Power in Anglo-Saxon England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The relationship between Anglo-Saxon kingship, law, and the functioning of power is explored via a number of different angles. The essays collected here focus on how Anglo-Saxon royal authority was expressed and disseminated, through laws, delegation, relationships between monarch and Church, and between monarchs at times of multiple kingships and changing power ratios. Specific topics include the importance of kings in consolidating the English "nation"; the development of witnesses as agents of the king's authority; the posthumous power of monarchs; how ceremonial occasions wereused for propaganda reinforcing heirarchic, but mutually beneficial, kingships; the implications of Ine's lawcode; and the language of legislation when English kings were ruling previously independent territories, and the delegation of local rule. The volume also includes a groundbreaking article by Simon Keynes on Anglo-Saxon charters, looking at the origins of written records, the issuing of royal diplomas and the process, circumstances, performance and function of production of records. GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester. Contributors: Ann Williams, Alexander R. Rumble, Carole Hough, Andrew Rabin, Barbara Yorke, Ryan Lavelle, Alaric Trousdale
Author | : Rory Naismith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107160979 |
Download Writing, Kingship, and Power in Anglo-Saxon England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book brings together new research that represents 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.
Author | : Barbara Yorke |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2002-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1134707258 |
Download Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England provides a unique survey of the six major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and their royal families, examining the most recent research in this field.
Author | : Richard Abels |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2013-11-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317900413 |
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This biography of Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons (871-899), combines a sensitive reading of the primary sources with a careful evaluation of the most recent scholarly research on the history and archaeology of ninth-century England. Alfred emerges from the pages of this biography as a great warlord, an effective and inventive ruler, and a passionate scholar whose piety and intellectual curiosity led him to sponsor a cultural and spiritual renaissance. Alfred's victories on the battlefield and his sweeping administrative innovations not only preserved his native Wessex from viking conquest, but began the process of political consolidation that would culminate in the creation of the kingdom of England. Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England strips away the varnish of later interpretations to recover the historical Alfredpragmatic, generous, brutal, pious, scholarly within the context of his own age.
Author | : Nicholas J. Higham |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2013-06-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300125348 |
Download The Anglo-Saxon World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents the Anglo-Saxon period of English history from the fifth century up to the late eleventh century, covering such events as the spread of Christianity, the invasions of the Vikings, the composition of Beowulf, and the Battle of Hastings.