The Community, the Family and the Saint
Patterns of Power in Early Medieval Europe
Edited by Joyce M Hill Edited by Mary Swan
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.
- Edited by Joyce M Hill
- Edited by Mary Swan
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Languages of Love and Hate
Conflict, Communication, and Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean
Volume 15
The Vocation of Service to God and Neighbour
Essays on the Interests, Involvements and Problems of Religious Communities and their Members in Medieval Society
Volume 5
Exile in the Middle Ages
Selected Proceedings from the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 8-11 July 2002
Volume 13
Approaches to Poverty in Medieval Europe
Complexities, Contradictions, Transformations, c. 1100-1500
Volume 22
The Medieval Household in Christian Europe, c. 850-c. 1550
Managing Power, Wealth, and the Body
Volume 12
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