The Saxon Thief

"By hook or by bishop's crook, Ventianus will see him dead by nightfall." While Cuthbert and Eadmund pursue a thief through the deserted streets of an enemy city, others plot to turn their help into harm and their honour into shame. Outwitted and outnumbered, they stumble into a nest of conspiracies that may send Britain crashing back into the bloodshed and chaos from which it just emerged. But Eadmund has more in the game than Cuthbert knows, and deciding who to trust may become the most dangerous choice of all.Every treasure has a secret, every saint has a past.

We're basically Romeo and Juliet. But dudes. And without all the dying. ChadBeing VP of Sigma Beta Psi is wild. I get all the benefits of being in charge with hardly any of the responsibility.Parties, pranks, and frat politics-college life has never been sweeter.Until I meet Bailey Prince.He has the face of a goddamn angel. I don't know where he came from or why I'm so obsessed.But I do know he's a Kappa.And our houses have a rivalry that's written into legend.BaileyAt Rho Kappa Tau, I'm a legacy.It's a lot of pressure, but I've always been responsible, never had that rebellious need to rock the boat, and I like it that way.But after a party at Sigma-the jock frat-I meet Chad Doomsen, and for the first time in my life I want to step outside my square.Our houses have always had a rivalry, but some of the guys seem to hate Chad specifically, and I don't know why.He's surprisingly sweet and kind. At least to me.I need to stay away. A relationship with Chad would be betraying the very legacy that brought me here.But I can't help myself. And it seems, neither can he.Frat Wars is a romance between MCs from rival houses. It has friendly competitions, no hazing, and a swoony romance kept secret.

From the calls for the execution of thieves in the Anglo-Saxon laws to the thrall's fateful pilfering of the dragon's cup in Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon textual corpus is far from silent on the problem and consequences of theft. The fact that theft is both the most frequently mentioned crime in the laws and one of the few punishable by death forces us to question the impact of illegal taking in Anglo-Saxon culture. Drawing on legal and literary evidence, including heroic and didactic poetry and homiletic texts, this study offers an explanation for the Anglo-Saxon preoccupation with theft. I argue that the severe punishment of thieves in the Anglo-Saxon laws is the direct result of the cultural weight of theft's two-fold opposite: ownership and gift-giving. In a material culture such as that of Anglo-Saxon England, the right to possess an object affords one both economic power-- that is, to use, trade, or barter one's possessions--as well as social potential--that is, to give away goods as gifts and thus establish a bond with the receiver. By removing goods without the owner's consent, the thief jeopardizes the owner's prerogatives and thereby commits an offense serious enough to warrant his death. The laws of the Anglo-Saxons demonstrate the importance of ownership to both king and commoner alike by allowing and even encouraging the execution of thieves throughout the Anglo-Saxon period.

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