Bloodfeud: Murder and Revenge in Anglo-Saxon EnglandOxford University Press, 2004 - 230 pages A treacherous murder in northern England on an early spring day in 1016 is used to introduce readers to the world of the aristocratic men and women of Anglo-Saxon England, their violence, their piety, their assumptions and experiences, their hopes and fears. In this book, award-winning author Richard Fletcher illuminates British society and politics in the years around the Norman Conquest, threading together scanty documentary evidence to produce a rich narrative. |
Table des matières
1 Wiheal | 1 |
2 England | 13 |
3 Northumbria | 31 |
4 Ethelred the Illadvised | 58 |
5 Millennium | 86 |
6 Rise Wood | 111 |
7 Ecgfridas Dowry | 123 |
8 Siward and Tostig | 142 |
9 Settrington | 163 |
10 Haget | 194 |
Chronological Tables | 205 |
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Notes | 215 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Ælfhelm Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Anglo-Saxon England Archbishop Wulfstan aristocratic army Arnketil Athelstan Bamburgh Bishop Ealdhun brother Canute Canute's Carl cathedral chapter Christian church conquest Copsig Cumbria Danes Danish daughter death Deira Domesday Durham anonymous Eadwulf ealdorman Ealdred Ealdred's Earl of Bernicia earl of Northumbria Earl Tostig Earl Uhtred earldom early Ecgfrida Edgar Edmund eleventh élite enemy Eric Eric of Hlathir Ethelred's evidence feud Gospatric Haget Harold high-reeves historians honour Humber killed King Edward King Ethelred King William king's kingdom land later Lindisfarne London lord loyalty magnate Malcolm marriage married medieval Mercia monastery monastic monk Morcar multiple estate murder Norman Normandy northern Olaf Old Norse Oslac Oswulf Oxford peace perhaps presumably reign royal rule rulers Scotland Scots Scottish Settrington shire Sigrida southern St Cuthbert surviving Sweyn Symeon Teesdale tenth century Thored Tostig twelfth century Uhtred Uhtred's Viking Waltheof Wessex West Saxon wife Wighill Wiheal Wulfstan York Yorkshire