Writing, Kingship, and Power in Anglo-Saxon England

Writing, Kingship, and Power in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Rory Naismith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107160979

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.

Anglo-Saxon Kingship and Political Power

Anglo-Saxon Kingship and Political Power
Author: Kathrin McCann
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2018-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786832941

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.

Writing Power in Anglo-Saxon England

Writing Power in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Catherine A. M. Clarke
Publisher: DS Brewer
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 1843843196

Explores how power is shaped and negotiated in later Anglo-Saxon texts, focusing on how hierarchical, vertical structures are presented alongside patterns of reciprocity and economies of mutual obligation, especially within the context of secular, spiritual, literal or symbolic patronage relationships.

Kingship, Legislation and Power in Anglo-Saxon England

Kingship, Legislation and Power in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 184383877X

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

An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Kingship

An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Kingship
Author: Peter Fox
Publisher: Anglo-Saxon Books
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN:

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?

Writing to the King

Writing to the King
Author: David Matthews
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139483757

In the century before Chaucer a new language of political critique emerged. In political verse of the period, composed in Anglo-Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English, poets write as if addressing the king himself, drawing on their sense of the rights granted by Magna Carta. These apparent appeals to the sovereign increase with the development of parliament in the late thirteenth century and the emergence of the common petition, and become prominent, in an increasingly sophisticated literature, during the political crises of the early fourteenth century. However, very little of this writing was truly directed to the king. As David Matthews shows in this book, the form of address was a rhetorical stance revealing much about the position from which writers were composing, the audiences they wished to reach, and their construction of political and national subjects.

Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England

Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Barbara Yorke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2002-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1134707258

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.

Anglo-Saxon Kingship and Political Power

Anglo-Saxon Kingship and Political Power
Author: Kathrin McCann
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2018-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786832933

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.