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The Earls of Mercia - Lordship and Power in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover)
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The Earls of Mercia - Lordship and Power in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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This book constitutes a major reappraisal of the late Anglo-Saxon
state on the eve of its demise. Its principal focus is the family
of Ealdorman Leofwine, which obtained power in Mercia and retained
it throughout an extraordinary period of political upheaval between
994 and 1071. In doing so it explores a paradox: that earls were
extraordinarily wealthy and powerful yet distinctly insecure. The
book contains the first extended treatment of earls' powers in late
Anglo-Saxon England and shows that although they wielded
considerable military, administrative and political powers, they
remained vulnerable to exile and other forms of political
punishment including loss of territory. The book also offers a
path-breaking analysis of land tenure and the mechanics of royal
patronage, and argues that the majority of earls' estates were held
from the king on a revocable basis for the duration of their period
in office. In order to compensate for such insecurities, earls used
lordship and religious patronage to construct local networks of
power. The book uses innovative methods for interpreting the
representation of lordship in Domesday Book to reconstruct the
affinity of the earls of Mercia. It also examines how the house of
Leofwine made strategic use of religious patronage to cement local
power structures. All this created intense competition between the
earls of Mercia and their rivals for power, both at court and in
the localities, and the book explores how factional rivalry
determined the course of politics, and ultimately the fate of the
late Anglo-Saxon state.
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