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Social identity in early medieval Britain / edited by William O. Frazer and Andrew Tyrrell.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in the early history of Britain.
- Studies in the early history of Britain
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Group identity--Great Britain--History.
- Group identity.
- Community life--Great Britain--History.
- Community life.
- Ethnicity--Great Britain--History.
- Ethnicity.
- Social classes--Great Britain--History.
- Social classes.
- Great Britain--History--Medieval period, 1066-1485.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (298 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Social identity is a concept od increasing importance in the social sciences. Here, the concept is applied to the often atheoretical realm of medieval studies. Each contributor focuses on a particular topic of early medieval identity - ethnicity, national identity, social location, subjectivity/personhood, political organization, kiship, the body, gender, age, proximity/regionality, memory and ideological systems. The result is a pioneering vision of medieval social identity and a challenge to some of the received general wisdoms about this period.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Figures; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Identities in Early Medieval Britain; 2 Ethnicity, Power and the English; 3 Self-worth and Property: Equipage and Early Medieval Personhood; 4 Political and Ethnic Identity: A Case Study of Anglo-Saxon Practice; 5 Community, Identity and Kingship in Early England; 6 'Cockle amongst the Wheat': The Scandinavian Settlement of England; 7 Corpus Saxonum: Early Medieval Bodies and Corporeal Identity; 8 The Berdache or Man-woman in Anglo-Saxon England and Early Medieval Europe
- 9 Posthumous Obligation and Family Identity10 Class, Space and 'Feudal' Identities in Early Medieval England; 11 Christian Monumental Sculpture and Ethnic Expression in Early Scotland; 12 Monastic Memory and Identity in Early Anglo-Saxon England; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612012990
- 9781282012998
- 1282012991
- 9781441195029
- 1441195025
- OCLC:
- 654423317
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