Royal Anglo-Saxon 'Chancery' of the Tenth Century Revisited
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ben Snook
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1783270063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of Anglo-Saxon charters, bringing out their complexity and highlighting a range of broad implications.
Author: George Molyneaux
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-11-03
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0192542931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe central argument of The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century is that the English kingdom which existed at the time of the Norman Conquest was defined by the geographical parameters of a set of administrative reforms implemented in the mid- to late tenth century, and not by a vision of English unity going back to Alfred the Great (871-899). In the first half of the tenth century, successive members of the Cerdicing dynasty established a loose domination over the other great potentates in Britain. They were celebrated as kings of the whole island, but even in their Wessex heartlands they probably had few means to regulate routinely the conduct of the general populace. Detailed analysis of coins, shires, hundreds, and wapentakes suggests that it was only around the time of Edgar (957/9-975) that the Cerdicing kings developed the relatively standardised administrative apparatus of the so-called 'Anglo-Saxon state'. This substantially increased their ability to impinge upon the lives of ordinary people living between the Channel and the Tees, and served to mark that area off from the rest of the island. The resultant cleft undermined the idea of a pan-British realm, and demarcated the early English kingdom as a distinct and coherent political unit. In this volume, George Molyneaux places the formation of the English kingdom in a European perspective, and challenges the notion that its development was exceptional: the Cerdicings were only one of several ruling dynasties around the fringes of the former Carolingian Empire for which the late ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries were a time of territorial expansion and consolidation.
Author: Julia Barrow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-01-15
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 1107086388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first broad-ranging social history in English of the medieval secular clergy.
Author: Robert E. Bjork
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1134980213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cynewulf Reader is a collection of classic and original essays presenting a comprehensive view of the elusive Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf, his language, and his work.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9401203725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume comprises essays in lexicography, lexicology and semantics by leading international experts in these fields. The contributions cover Old, Middle and Present-Day English and Scots, and specific subjects include medical vocabulary, colour lexemes, and semantic and pragmatic meaning in terms for politeness, money and humour. In the area of Old English studies there are articles on kinship terminology and colour lexemes, and in Middle English a semantic and syntactic study of the overlapping of the verbs dreden and douten. Many of the essays make use of the Historical Thesaurus of English project at the University of Glasgow, and pay tribute to its Director, Professor Christian Kay; e.g., one article demonstrates how the HTE, a project which is at the interface between historical semantics and lexicography, may present a rich resource for information about the lexicalization of concepts within our culture, such as changing social attitudes in the area of will, consent and coercion. Other resources, such as The Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English, and the Oxford English Dictionary provide a rich source for information on historical lexicography, semantics and editing. A number of essays concern the Scots language, such as an analysis of evaluative terms in modern Scots speech and writing, the rich potential of rhyme in Scots, and the role of lexicon in th- fronting in Glaswegian.
Author: Sarah Foot
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011-07-12
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0300125356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe powerful and innovative King Athelstan reigned only briefly (924-939), yet his achievements during those eventful 15 years changed the course of English history. In this biography, Sarah Foot offers the first full account of the king ever written.
Author: Timothy Reuter
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1992-07-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0826426751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile Karl Leyser was pre-eminent in the English-speaking world as the historian of medieval Germany, his work has increased our understanding of European society as a whole. In particular, he brought to life nobles and ecclesiastics, by combining a profound knowledge of the primary sources with an imaginative ability to understand motives and attitudes. Warriors and Churchmen in the High Middle Ages brings together essays by Karl Leyser's pupils, many of them distinguished historians in their own right, on subjects which he himself illuminated.
Author: Robert E. Bjork
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-10-28
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1000526119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo original essays and 16 published since 1950 offer a comprehensive view of Cynewulf, his language, and his poetry. The collection contains important new statements on dates, provenance, and canon by R.D. Fulk and Patrick W. Conner, four influential essays that thoroughly explore Cynewulf's runic signature and poetic style, and major contributions to our understanding of the four signed poems of Cynewulf, Fates of the Apostles, Christ II, Juliana, and Elene. Three essays are devoted to each of these poems, and the essays themselves exemplify a broad range of approaches to this highly elusive Anglo-Saxon poet. The volume complements existing book-length treatments of the subject and will be welcome to scholars and students who need the foundations of Cynewulf scholarship at their fingertips.
Author: Sara María Pons Sanz
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 8776741966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ancient Romans believed that the Gods sent signs of future events to them through the flight of birds, meteorological disturbances and other natural phenomena. These signs influenced every sphere of ancient life, both public and private, from a state's decision to go to war or make peace, hold an election or meet a public crisis to an individual's business, marriage or travel plans. The articles in this book illustrate how the various Roman divinatory techniques were inter-woven into the structures of ancient society as well as how they were used in literary contexts. The intriguing question of the alleged doublethink among Roman intellectuals in their attitude to Divination is an important theme taken up in this book.