[PDF] An Introduction To Anglo Saxon Kingship eBook

Author : Peter Fox
Publisher : Anglo-Saxon Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 2004
Category : 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
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1786832933

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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
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 1977-09-08
Category : 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 : Peter Hunter Blair
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 18,74 MB
Release : 2003-07-17
Category : 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
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 184383877X

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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 : Timothy Venning
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445624591

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A major re-examination of an important period in British history

Author : Barbara Yorke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 2002-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1134707258

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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 : Hugh Magennis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521519470

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Introducing Anglo-Saxon literature in an approachable way, this is an indispensable guide for students to a key literary topic.

Author : Rory Naismith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 32,37 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1107160979

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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 : John Blair
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 20,3 MB
Release : 2000-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 019157838X

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First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Blair's Very Short Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Age covers the emergence of the earliest English settlements to the Norman victory in 1066. This book is a brief introduction to the political, social, religious, and cultural history of Anglo-Saxon England. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.