The Persuasive Agency of Objects and Practices in Alfred the Great's Reform Program
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| Autore: |
Pitt Georgina
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| Titolo: |
The Persuasive Agency of Objects and Practices in Alfred the Great's Reform Program
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2024 |
| ©2024 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 942.0164 |
| Soggetto topico: | HISTORY / Medieval |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Aestel |
| Alfred Jewel | |
| Wessex | |
| assemblage theory | |
| new materialism | |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- AUTHOR’S NOTE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Prelude. The Enigmatic Alfred Jewel -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Military Innovation: Performing Alfredian Ideology -- Chapter 3. Alfredian Ideology -- Chapter 4. Alfredian Learning and Its Implications for Alfredian Reform -- Chapter 5. Text-Bodies: A Crucial Actant -- Chapter 6. Social Practices: Routinized Ways of Doing Things -- Chapter 7. The Enigmatic Alfred Jewel: A Powerful Player in Alfredian Reform -- Coda. Looking Forward: Alfred’s Successors -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Alfred the Great's early English kingdom was the only one to resist Viking conquest. His reform program strengthened the kingdom and enabled it to hold fast against the Vikings. But texts are largely silent on the process of reform. There has been a tendency to assume that these reforms would obviously be beneficial, but Alfred's elites were not to know that in advance. What motivated them to do as their king bid them?This book analyzes how objects and behaviours shaped aristocratic response to the reform program, using assemblage theory and social practice theory. The Alfred Jewel (as shown on the cover) exercised a powerful persuasive agency in Alfredian reform. Broadening the frame of inquiry beyond textual evidence, giving objects and behaviours their due, permits a richer and more nuanced understanding. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Persuasive Agency of Objects and Practices in Alfred the Great's Reform Program |
| ISBN: | 9781802702279 |
| 180270227X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910881501203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
CARMEN Visual and Material Cultures Series