TY - BOOK ID - 5522435 TI - Writing power in Anglo-Saxon England : texts, hierarchies, economies PY - 2012 SN - 9781843843191 1843843196 9781846158728 9786613555717 1846158729 1280377801 PB - Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, DB - UniCat KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - English poetry KW - Power (Social sciences) in literature. KW - Civilization, Anglo-Saxon. KW - Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) KW - Poésie anglaise KW - Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) dans la littérature KW - Civilisation anglo-saxonne KW - History KW - History and criticism. KW - Histoire KW - Histoire et critique KW - England KW - Angleterre KW - Social conditions KW - Conditions sociales KW - History. KW - Geschichte 450-1100. KW - Poésie anglaise KW - Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) dans la littérature KW - History and criticism KW - Great Britain KW - Anglo-Saxon civilization KW - Anglo-Saxons KW - Empowerment (Social sciences) KW - Political power KW - Exchange theory (Sociology) KW - Political science KW - Social sciences KW - Sociology KW - Consensus (Social sciences) KW - Civilization KW - Anglo-Saxon England. KW - Early Medieval. KW - Economies. KW - Hierarchies. KW - Medieval. KW - Patronage. KW - Power. KW - Reciprocity. KW - Texts. KW - English literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5522435 AB - A work of fine and nuanced intelligence... Skilled and learned readings of a number of important texts. Fluent, polished, and beautifully written.' Dr Katy Cubitt, University of York. The formation and operation of systems of power and patronage in Anglo-Saxon England are currently the focus of concerted scholarly attention. This book explores how power is shaped and negotiated in later Anglo-Saxon texts, focusing in particular on how hierarchical, vertical structures are presented alongside patterns of reciprocity and economies of mutual obligation, especially within the context of patronage relationships (whether secular, spiritual, literal or symbolic). Through close analysis of a wide selection of sources in the vernacular and Latin (including the Guthlac poems of the Exeter Book, Old English verse epitaphs, the acrostic poetry of Abbo of Fleury, the Encomium Emmae Reginae and Libellus Æthelwoldi Episcopi), the study examines how texts sustain dual ways of seeing and understanding power, generating a range of imaginative possibilities along with tensions, ambiguities and instances of disguise or euphemism. It also advances new arguments about the ideology and rhetoric of power in the early medieval period. Catherine A. M. Clarke is Professor in English, University of Southampton. ER -