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List of contents
1. Introduction Rory Naismith and David A. Woodman; 2. Simon Keynes: the man and the scholar Oliver Padel; Part I. The Formation of Power: The Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdom: 3. Bede's Kings Sarah Foot; 4. Hagiography and charters in early Northumbria David A. Woodman; 5. Origins of the kingdom of the English David N. Dumville; 6. Losing the plot? 'Filthy assertions' and 'unheard-of deceit' in Codex Carolinus 92 Jinty Nelson; Part II. Authority and its Articulation in Late Anglo-Saxon England: 7. Fathers and daughters: the case of Æthelred II Pauline Stafford; 8. The historian and Anglo-Saxon coinage: the case of late Anglo-Saxon England Rory Naismith; 9. Charters and exemption from geld in Anglo-Saxon England David Pratt; 10. On living in the time of tribulation: Archbishop Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi ad Anglos and its eschatological context Catherine Cubitt; 11. A tale of two charters: diploma production and political performance in Æthelredian England Levi Roach; Part III. Books, Texts and Power: 12. Making manifest God's judgement: interpreting ordeals in late Anglo-Saxon England Helen Foxhall Forbes; 13. An eleventh-century prayerbook for women? The origins and history of the Galba Prayerbook Julia Crick; 14. Writing Latin and Old English in tenth-century England: patterns, formula and language choice in the leases of Oswald of Worcester Francesca Tinti.
About the author
Rory Naismith is a lecturer in Medieval History at King's College, London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and author of Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England: The Southern English Kingdoms 757–865 (Cambridge, 2012) and Medieval European Coinage (Cambridge, 2017).David A. Woodman is a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, where he is Director of Studies in History and Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Summary
This book brings together new research that represents current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England. Ranging from the seventh to the eleventh century, the chapters in this volume offer fresh approaches to a wide range of linguistic, historical, legal, diplomatic and palaeographical evidence.
