Pre-Alfredian English history is such a double-edged sword, isn’t it? On the one hand, literary witnesses are scant, whilst archaeological data speak to a rich and diverse history and culture.
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TBH I’m a “believe the bricks” type of person. Numinismastic evidence is always ideological in nature. Would love to see your work in this area!
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Replying to @stmarnock69 @OptimoPrincipi
Well I’m looking at ideology :P Specifically kingship haha.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @OptimoPrincipi
What is the consensus regarding Early Mediaeval English kingship? The ideological murmurs of Roman ideology reverberated far beyond the 4th and 5th Centuries. Given the ongoing trade with the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empires, the influence of a “Rome” would surely influence
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kingship and its portrayal?
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Replying to @stmarnock69 @OptimoPrincipi
Well yeah but I’m not really looking at Imperial influence. I don’t think there is consensus because kingship as a concept exists outside of Rome. I’m looking at sacral kingship specifically actually. There are Roman and Greek parallels but it’s not necessarily influence.
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More like it’s just all part of a milieu.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @OptimoPrincipi
Do you think Early Mediaeval English kingships draw upon pre-Roman models or consciously reject or speak to the Roman model?
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Replying to @stmarnock69 @OptimoPrincipi
I think that they draw from both Roman models and their own older conceptions of kingship. I hesitate to say it is an aping of Imperial attitudes, because I do not believe it is derivative and I think it’s a fallacy to think that.
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The thing is, the ideas of sacral kingship are older than Rome. I don’t really want to get into this pan-Indo-European thing but the idea of a sacral king reaches far and wide.
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And it’s also dependent on different kingdoms. East Anglia seems to attach to the Roman stuff a great deal (Caesar appears in their kings’ genealogy). Mercia and Wessex seem to be influenced heavily by Charlemagne. But even the Carolingians aren’t just copying Rome.
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