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Anglo-Saxon England (anglo-saxon + england)
Selected AbstractsThe use and abuse of hostages in later Anglo-Saxon EnglandEARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE, Issue 3 2006Ryan Lavelle This paper explores the use of hostages in political relations in Anglo-Saxon England, often between different ethnic groups. Although much of the evidence relates to the ninth century when hostages were used as a means of guaranteeing the peace agreements made between King Alfred and his Viking adversaries, consideration will be given here to the use of hostages in the broader context of the late Anglo-Saxon period. The paper discusses whether the significance of these arrangements lay in their projection of imperial power or in their practicality as a crude political tool whose effectiveness in maintaining an agreement lay in a tangible threat. Both of these aspects of Anglo-Saxon hostageship are examined, especially with regard to peacemaking, the extent to which it could be successful, and why. [source] Early medieval port customs, tolls and controls on foreign tradeEARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE, Issue 4 2005Neil Middleton The objective of this paper is to offer a fresh perspective on the nature and organization of international trade in early medieval ports from the evidence of documentary sources on tolls and customs, trading practices and controls on foreign merchants. In particular, the paper considers the evidence for continuities and borrowings from the Roman and Byzantine worlds and the extent to which they influenced trading practices in the west and especially in Anglo-Saxon England. [source] The transformation of kinship and the family in late Anglo-Saxon EnglandEARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE, Issue 3 2001Andrew Wareham The development of the family into a small unit in which descent was traced almost exclusively through the male line is regarded as a major turning point in medieval European history. The early stages of the formation of agnatic kinship have usually been connected to strategies designed to preserve and retain control of patrimonies and castles, arising from the breakdown of public order. In this article it is suggested that the emergence of new kinship values was connected to the investment of aristocratic energy and resources in monastic programmes, and to subtle changes in lay involvement with the rituals associated with death and the salvation of souls. [source] The Litaniae maiores and minores in Rome, Francia and Anglo-Saxon England: terminology, texts and traditionsEARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE, Issue 2 2000Joyce Hill It has been noted that there are Frankish and Anglo-Saxon texts in which the three days before Ascension are designated as the Major Litanies, a practice generally regarded as an inexplicable deviation from the established norm of designating 25 April as the Major Litany and the three days before Ascension as the Minor Litany. This article shows, however, that this contrastive terminology was not in use in the Anglo-Saxon and Frankish churches and that the pre-Ascension litany days , more firmly established than the Roman tradition of 25 April , were commonly designated as the Litaniae maiores in authoritative contexts. [source] Sites and sanctity: revisiting the cult of murdered and martyred Anglo-Saxon royal saintsEARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE, Issue 1 2000Catherine Cubitt The cults of the murdered and martyred royal saints of Anglo-Saxon England have been interpreted as political in origin and this view has received widespread acceptance. This article, which discusses the cults of the kings, Oswald, Oswiu and Edwin of Northumbria, and Edward the Martyr and those of the princes, Kenelm of Mercia and Æthelred and Æthelberht of Kent, puts forward a new interpretation, suggesting that their cults originated in lay and non-élite devotion to the innocent victims of unjust and violent death, before being taken up for political and other purposes. It addresses the problem of popular religion in Anglo-Saxon England and seeks to show how these cults may be used to shed light on the beliefs of the ordinary Anglo-Saxon laity. [source] Writing the Map of Anglo-Saxon England: Essays in Cultural Geography , By Nicholas HoweHISTORY, Issue 316 2009DAMIAN TYLER No abstract is available for this article. [source] Paganism in Conversion-Age Anglo-Saxon England: The Evidence of Bede's Ecclesiastical History ReconsideredHISTORY, Issue 310 2008S. D. CHURCH This article argues that the current understanding of English paganism relies too heavily on the belief that, when they wrote of the pre-Christian religion(s) of the English, Pope Gregory I (d. 604), in the letters preserved in his Register, and the Northumbrian monk Bede (d. 735), in his Ecclesiastical History, were describing English religion before conversion to Christianity as it really was. Their purpose in discussing English paganism, it is argued, was to provide succour and support for the process by which the English would be saved from eternal damnation in the face of the coming Day of Judgement. Neither Gregory nor Bede, both of whom came to be revered as Fathers of the Church, were passive observers of the conversion process. On the contrary, both men were active participants in the eradication of error amongst the English; error whose detail they had no interest or incentive to describe empirically. These were men who answered to a greater Truth , the Truth of the Word of God. It was this Truth which, this article argues, actually informed their descriptions of English paganism and should inform our understanding of their words on this subject. [source] The Ruler Portraits of Anglo-Saxon England By Catherine E. KarkovHISTORY, Issue 303 2006RYAN LAVELLE No abstract is available for this article. [source] Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England By Victoria ThompsonHISTORY, Issue 303 2006JOHN BLAIR No abstract is available for this article. [source] | ||||||||||