300 – Noble Lives

When we left off, we were talking about Thegns. Specifically, we were talking about King’s Thegns and how they could wield degrees of power that could rival even the formidable Ealdormen.

At this point in this short series, the hope is that you have a sense of what incentives the economic structure created, the way that power flowed in this era, and what these titles meant in action.  

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299 – The Shape of Power

Ealdormen… Thegns… Ceorls.

These were the  important cogs in the machine of government. They had powerful roles, and held powerful spaces within anglo saxon culture.

And it’s time we get to know these roles like the back of our hand.

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The Achavanich Beaker Burial Project: Ancient DNA with Maya Hoole

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