... as with other similar conditional agreements such as the amans or ‘safe-conducts’. The chapter also presents a commentary of the agreements of 776 and 802/5 and compares the said agreements to determine their formal and structural parallels. The parallels with the amans...

... orally and affirmed by a handclasp. The document closely follows the scheme the dispositive agreements for the succession, and the amans that they resemble; that is, it follows the established forms for a contract in public law. The chapter also examines the parallels with the fragments...

..., that structure the frame narrative are deeply informed by the great household imaginary. The metaphorical retaining of vices such as Parsimony, and the contest between Amans and Danger extend the poem's political dialectic between ‘reciprocalism’ and ‘magnificence’, strengthening the former. The imagination...