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Beowulf and the Bureaucrats - Power and Politics in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland. Edited by Stephen T. Driscoll and Margaret R. Nieke. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1988; distributed in the U.S.A. by Columbia University Press, New York. Pp. iii + 218. $45.00 (cloth); $17.50 (paper). - The Anglo-Saxon Achievement: Archaeology and the Beginnings of English Society. By Richard Hodges. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 1989. Pp. xi + 212. £24.00. - Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England. By Nicholas Howe. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. xiii + 198. $25.00. - The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England. By Susan J. Ridyard. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xi + 340. $54.50. - Lordship and Military Obligation in Anglo-Saxon England. By Richard P. Abels. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988. Pp. xii + 313. $39.95. - Predatory Kinship and the Creation of Norman Power, 840–1066. By Eleanor Searle. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988. Pp. xi + 356. $38.00.

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Robin Chapman Stacey
Robin Chapman Stacey*
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University of Washington
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 83 - 99
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1 Peter Brown warns of the dangers of the two-tiered approach to religion: The Cult of the Saints (Chicago, 1981), pp. 17–22, 27–30Google Scholar, and Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1982), pp. 11–12Google Scholar.

2 See Clare Stancliffe's essay, which Ridyard curiously does not cite: “Kings Who Opted Out,” in Ideal and Reality in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Society, ed. Wormald, Patrick, Bullough, Donald, and Collins, Roger (Oxford, 1983), pp. 154–76, esp. p. 157Google Scholar.

3 Bachrach, Bernard, “Some Observations on the Military Administration of the Norman Conquest,” in Anglo-Norman Studies, ed. Brown, R. Allen (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1986), 8:1–25, esp. p. 15Google Scholar.