Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Aristocracy’s Appearance
Introduction
1. Nouns for aristocrats: labels
2. Aristocrats as warriors
3. Aristocratic Women
4. Social Mobility? The cases of Imma and Caedmon
5. The crystallization of the aristocracy: the Durham Liber Vitae
Conclusion

2. Production: Classes and Class Relations
Introduction
1. Concepts and Definitions
2. Why is the eighth century a ‘long’ one?
3. Forces of Production and Means of Production, at Sherburn (N. Yorks)
Conclusion

3. Circulation
1. Land donation
2. Circulation, Coins and Coinage
Conclusion

4. Time, History and Class through narratives
Introduction
1. History and Ideological reproduction
2. Narratives, Form and Content
3. The past and its senses in Anglo-Saxon Society: the vernacular and Latin
4. Bede and his works
5. The Historia Regum
Conclusion

5. Consumption: Aristocratic Eating
Introduction
1. Types of evidence available
2. Fasting and Feasting
3. Flixborough
Conclusion

6. The End: Death
Introduction
1. Death as a form of time reckoning
2. Periods, Chronology and their meaning in Archaeology
3. Clerics, jewellery and status
4. Wills: reproduction through death
5. Rites of Death
Conclusion

Conclusion

Index
List of Figures