| The Community, the Family and the Saint: Patterns of Power in Early Medieval Europe Contributor(s): Hill, Joyce M. (Editor), Swan, Mary (Editor) |
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ISBN: 2503506682 ISBN-13: 9782503506685 Publisher: Brepols Publishers OUR PRICE: $36.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1998 Annotation: Contemporary research has striven to integrate different disciplinary traditions in the analysis of particular societies. For early medieval Europe the organising forces of social identity and power are crucial and this collection demonstrates the varieties of interaction, conflict and development. The twenty-two essays span literary and historical texts, artefacts and archaeological evidence from a wide geographical area, ranging from the early Celtic world to the emerging city states of twelfth-century Italy. The volume is arranged in four sections which reflect the nexus of power in this period: Community and Family; Saints; Power; and Death, Burial and Commemoration. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Europe - Medieval - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 306.094 |
| LCCN: 99166726 |
| Series: International Medieval Research |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6.48" W x 9.58" (1.72 lbs) 445 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of twenty-two original essays investigates the organising forces of social identity and power in early Medieval Europe. The essays take as their starting-points primary literary and historical texts, artefacts and archaeological evidence from a wide geographical area, ranging from the early Celtic world to the emerging city states of twelfth-century Italy. The essays are arranged in four sections which reflect the nexus of power in this period: Community and Family; Saints; Power; Death, Burial and Commemoration. Contributors to the volume are Mary Alberi, Stefan Brink, Edward Coleman, Mayke de Jong, Philippe Depreux, Matthew Ellis, Guy Halsall, Mark Handley, Karl Heidecker, Dominic Janes, Sarah Larratt Keefer, Harald Kleinschmidt, Rob Meens, Bertil Nilsson, David Pelteret, Joaquin Martinez Pizarro, Mark Redknap, Hedwig Rockelein, Patricia Skinner, Pauline Stafford, Martina Stein-Wilkeshuis and Lisa Weston. Joyce Hill is Professor of Old and Middle English Language and Literature, and a former Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. Mary Swan is Director of Studies of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. Both are specialists in the early Middle Ages, focussing on the language, literature and history of Anglo-Saxon England. |