| Abstract | Paper -a:
According to Bede's Ecclesiastical History, many people in England were eager to go to Rome in the late 7th century, and of them even finished their lives there. Bede's abbot Ceolfrith also tried the same but in vain. Boniface in the early 8th century reports the popularity of pilgrimage to Rome among his countrymen, but with a critical eye. This paper will investigate the relationship between the pilgrimage to Rome and theological trend in 7th- to 8th-century England.
Paper -b:
In ‘Discipline and Punish', Foucault introduced the concept of the disciplinary institution which regulates the body and the construction of identity. This paper will explore how the Anglo-Saxon disciplinary institutions which produced bodies assigned value to the disability and wholeness of the body. For example, although the disabled were afforded special protection in law, legal texts also assign to disability an exchangeable currency, through monetary injury tariffs and the prescription of disabling punishments. Given that the currency of disability is volatile and contextually dependant, how is it valued in the economy of sin, reparation, and penance of Old English legal and religious regulatory texts?
Paper -c:
The Anglo-Saxon reeve is a neglected figure in the body of historical research on Anglo-Saxon England. What was his role in the Anglo-Saxon administration? Clearly the reeve was a fundamental aspect of Anglo-Saxon government from the 7th century onward. The reeve was found at many levels of administration; from the local villages and estates to positions as a king's or bishop's reeve. This official was often connected with fiscal duties, courts, estate management, and often at higher levels, could even represent the king's will. A deeper appreciation of this figure and the role he played will contribute to historians' understanding and knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon administration and its function. Most of the existing scholarship on the reeve encompasses what might be learned about the position through close examination of the law codes. Although the codes are an invaluable source of information, what we gain from these might be supplemented with the perhaps more dynamic accounts of individuals, preserved for us in the Old English narrative sources. Such material as homilies, saints' lives, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Old English tract on estate management, The Discriminating Reeve, might be utilized in order to obtain a clearer idea of how the reeve might have both viewed himself and been viewed by others during the Anglo-Saxon period. In addition to gaining insight into how the Anglo-Saxons themselves thought of and understood the reeve, the narrative sources may offer colourful detail about the position that might have been lost in the straightforward legal terminology of the law codes and other administrative evidence.
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