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The Saxon Thief

2017-07-21
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Book Synopsis The Saxon Thief by : Martin Turner

Download or read book The Saxon Thief written by Martin Turner. This book was released on 2017-07-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By hook or by bishop's crook, Ventianus will see him dead by nightfall." While Cuthbert and Eadmund pursue a thief through the deserted streets of an enemy city, others plot to turn their help into harm and their honour into shame. Outwitted and outnumbered, they stumble into a nest of conspiracies that may send Britain crashing back into the bloodshed and chaos from which it just emerged. But Eadmund has more in the game than Cuthbert knows, and deciding who to trust may become the most dangerous choice of all.Every treasure has a secret, every saint has a past.

The Punishment Fits the Crime

2008 Anglo-Saxons
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Release : 2008
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Book Synopsis The Punishment Fits the Crime by : Jill Diane Hamilton

Download or read book The Punishment Fits the Crime written by Jill Diane Hamilton. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the calls for the execution of thieves in the Anglo-Saxon laws to the thrall's fateful pilfering of the dragon's cup in Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon textual corpus is far from silent on the problem and consequences of theft. The fact that theft is both the most frequently mentioned crime in the laws and one of the few punishable by death forces us to question the impact of illegal taking in Anglo-Saxon culture. Drawing on legal and literary evidence, including heroic and didactic poetry and homiletic texts, this study offers an explanation for the Anglo-Saxon preoccupation with theft. I argue that the severe punishment of thieves in the Anglo-Saxon laws is the direct result of the cultural weight of theft's two-fold opposite: ownership and gift-giving. In a material culture such as that of Anglo-Saxon England, the right to possess an object affords one both economic power-- that is, to use, trade, or barter one's possessions--as well as social potential--that is, to give away goods as gifts and thus establish a bond with the receiver. By removing goods without the owner's consent, the thief jeopardizes the owner's prerogatives and thereby commits an offense serious enough to warrant his death. The laws of the Anglo-Saxons demonstrate the importance of ownership to both king and commoner alike by allowing and even encouraging the execution of thieves throughout the Anglo-Saxon period.

The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest

1841 Anglo-Saxons
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Release : 1841
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Book Synopsis The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest by : Sharon Turner

Download or read book The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest written by Sharon Turner. This book was released on 1841. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transactions

1905 London (England)
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Release : 1905
Genre : London (England)
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Book Synopsis Transactions by : London and Middlesex Archaeological Society

Download or read book Transactions written by London and Middlesex Archaeological Society. This book was released on 1905. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bone Thief

2012-02-16 Fiction
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Release : 2012-02-16
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Bone Thief by : V.M. Whitworth

Download or read book The Bone Thief written by V.M. Whitworth. This book was released on 2012-02-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred the Great has been dead for a decade. His legacy: an uneasy alliance between the neighbouring kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia. Wulfgar, a young priest in training, more at home with his books than with a sword, has been tasked with an impossible mission. He must travel secretly to the badlands of the North and find the bones of a long lost saint. But the Northern territories are under the rule of Viking invaders. And if Wulfgar is discovered, they will have his head... A historical epic in the tradition of C.J.Sansom. V.M.Whitworth also writes as Victoria Whitworth and is the author of THE TRAITOR'S PIT and DAUGHTER OF THE WOLF.

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