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Writing, Kingship, and Power in Anglo-Saxon England
Language: en
Pages: 367
Authors: Rory Naismith
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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
Writing Power in Anglo-Saxon England
Language: en
Pages: 207
Authors: Catherine A. M. Clarke
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: DS Brewer

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Explores how power is shaped and negotiated in later Anglo-Saxon texts, focusing on how hierarchical, vertical structures are presented alongside patterns of re
Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England
Language: en
Pages: 275
Authors: Annie Whitehead
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-30 - Publisher: Pen and Sword History

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The little-known lives of women who ruled, schemed, and made peace and war, between the seventh and eleventh centuries: “Meticulously researched.” —Cather
Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Seth Lerer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher:

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At the close of the ninth century Alfred the Great lamented the decay of teaming in England and proposed a program of official translations and scholarly study
Kingship, Legislation and Power in Anglo-Saxon England
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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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 o