The Anglo-Saxon Elite
Northumbrian Society in the Long Eighth Century
Series: The Early Medieval North Atlantic;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 December 2025
- ISBN 9781041187172
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
In all of the literature on Anglo-Saxon England, rarely has the question of social class been confronted head-on. This study draws upon recent research into topics such as religious practice, emotions, daily life, and intellectual culture to investigate how the aristocracy of Northumbria maintained social dominance over wider society.
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In all of the literature on Anglo-Saxon England, rarely has the question of social class been confronted head-on. The Anglo-Saxon Elite: Northumbrian Society in the Long Eighth Century draws upon recent research into topics such as religious practice, emotions, daily life, and intellectual culture to investigate how the aristocracy of Northumbria maintained social dominance over wider society. Moreover, this monograph suggests that the crisis that brought an end to Northumbria as an independent kingdom was the product of the social contradictions produced by the ruling class as social domination developed over time. The analysis is divided into three broad parts – production, circulation, and consumption – both as a nod to Marxist historiography and also to signal a commitment to a methodology that situates the subject within a global context.
Renato Rodrigues da Silva's book provides a fresh Marxist perspective on the Northumbrian aristocracy of the long eighth century, framing it as a dominant class whose strategies of power, wealth circulation, and reproduction are carefully dissected. While the use of a rigid Marxist model offers insights, it occasionally overlooks the complexities of Northumbrian society, especially the role of the ecclesiastic aristocracy.,- Alban Gautier, Speculum, issue 2, 2024
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, Introduction, 1. The Aristocracy's Appearance,Introduction, 1. Nouns for aristocrats: labels, 2. Aristocrats as warriors, 3. Aristocratic Women, 4. Social Mobility? The cases of Imma and Caedmon, 5. The crystallization of the aristocracy: the Durham Liber Vitae, Conclusion, 2. Production: Classes and Class Relations,Introduction, 1. Concepts and Definitions, 2. Why is the eighth century a 'long' one?, 3. Forces of Production and Means of Production, at Sherburn (N. Yorks), Conclusion, 3. Circulation, 1. Land donation, 2. Circulation, Coins and Coinage, Conclusion, 4. Time, History and Class through narratives,Introduction, 1. History and Ideological reproduction, 2. Narratives, Form and Content, 3. The past and its senses in Anglo-Saxon Society: the vernacular and Latin, 4. Bede and his works, 5. The Historia Regum, Conclusion, 5. Consumption: Aristocratic Eating,Introduction, 1. Types of evidence available, 2. Fasting and Feasting, 3. Flixborough, Conclusion, 6. The End: Death,Introduction, 1. Death as a form of time reckoning, 2. Periods, Chronology and their meaning in Archaeology, 3. Clerics, jewellery and status, 4. Wills: reproduction through death, 5. Rites of Death, Conclusion,Conclusion, Index., List of Figures.
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