ISBN:
9781846158728
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (191 pages)
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DDC:
306.2094209021
Keywords:
Geschichte 450-1100
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Geschichte
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English poetry / Old English, ca. 450-1100 / History and criticism
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Power (Social sciences) / England / History / To 1500
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Power (Social sciences) / Great Britain / History
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Power (Social sciences) in literature
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon
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Macht
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Literatur
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Großbritannien
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England / Social conditions / To 1066
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Great Britain / History / Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
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England
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England
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Macht
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Literatur
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Geschichte 450-1100
Abstract:
A work of fine and nuanced intelligence... Skilled and learned readings of a number of important texts. Fluent, polished, and beautifully written.' Dr Katy Cubitt, University of York. The formation and operation of systems of power and patronage in Anglo-Saxon England are currently the focus of concerted scholarly attention. This book explores how power is shaped and negotiated in later Anglo-Saxon texts, focusing in particular on how hierarchical, vertical structures are presented alongside patterns of reciprocity and economies of mutual obligation, especially within the context of patronage relationships (whether secular, spiritual, literal or symbolic). Through close analysis of a wide selection of sources in the vernacular and Latin (including the Guthlac poems of the Exeter Book, Old English verse epitaphs, the acrostic poetry of Abbo of Fleury, the Encomium Emmae Reginae and Libellus Æthelwoldi Episcopi), the study examines how texts sustain dual ways of seeing and understanding power, generating a range of imaginative possibilities along with tensions, ambiguities and instances of disguise or euphemism. It also advances new arguments about the ideology and rhetoric of power in the early medieval period. Catherine A. M. Clarke is Professor in English, University of Southampton
Description / Table of Contents:
Order and interlace: the Guthlac poems of the Exeter Book -- Sites of economy: power and reckoning in the poetic epitaphs of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle -- 'Absens ero, presens ero': writing the absent patron -- Power and performance: authors and patrons in late Anglo-Saxon texts -- Remembering Anglo-Saxon patronage: the Libellus Æthelwoldi Episcopi and its contexts
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