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The Haskins Society Journal 21
  • 2009. Studies in Medieval History
  • With contributions by Richard Allen , Uta-Renate Blumenthal , Ruth Harwood Cline , Thomas Cramer , Mark Gardiner , C. Stephen Jaeger , David A. E. Pelteret , Sally Shockro , Rebecca L. Slitt and Timothy Smit
  • Edited by William L. North
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    28 April 2017
    Print publication:
    18 November 2010
  • Embracing disciplinary approaches ranging from the archaeological to the historical, the sociological to the literary, this collection offers new insights into key texts and interpretive problems in the history of England and the continent between the eighth and thirteenth centuries. Topics range from Bede's use and revision of the anonymous Life of St Cuthbert and the redeployment of patristic texts in later continental and Anglo-Saxon ascetic and hagiographical texts, to Robert Curthose's interaction with the Norman episcopate and the revival of Roman legal studies, to the dynamics of aristocratic friendship in the Anglo-Norman realm, and much more. The volume also includes two methodologically rich studies of vital aspects of the historical landscape of medieval England: rivers and forests.

    William North teaches in the Department of History, Carleton College.

    Contributors: Richard Allen, Uta-Renate Blumenthal, Ruth Harwood Cline, Thomas Cramer, Mark Gardiner, C. Stephen Jaeger, David A.E. Pelteret, Sally Shockro, Rebecca Slitt, Timothy Smit

  • II.6 - Poor and powerless

  • Edited by Julia Crick, University of Exeter, Elisabeth van Houts, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    A Social History of England, 900–1200
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    21 April 2011, pp 142-151

  • Summary

    [Geatflæd] gave freedom for the love of God and for their souls' need, that is, Ecceard smith and Ælfstan and his wife and all their offspring, born and unborn, and Arcil and Cole and Ecgferth, Aldhun's daughter, and all those people whose head she took in return for their food in those evil days.

    Durham Liber Vitae, c. xxxx

    Slavery is a legal status whereby people are denied freedom by being defined as chattels subject to the ownership of another person or institution. In societies that have permitted slavery usually only criminals have had a lower status. As the human possessions of others, slaves would seem to represent the essence of powerlessness. There were slaves in Anglo-Saxon England from the time of our earliest texts and the institution survived the Anglo-Saxon period, only disappearing from English records in the first half of the twelfth century. From a modern perspective, this was a social change of momentous significance; for the English of the time the disappearance of slavery elicited no comment at all. This gulf in perception should arouse the curiosity of anyone who examines the period from 900 to 1200.