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Author |
: Eric John |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0719050537 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780719050534 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reassessing Anglo-Saxon England by : Eric John
Brilliantly and entertainingly written, this new and original analysis is the fruit of 30 years of scholarship and therefore has something of the nature of a testament. Mr. John uses anthropological insight to understand the Anglo-Saxon nature.
Author |
: Nicholas J. Higham |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 495 |
Release |
: 2013-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300195378 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300195370 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Anglo-Saxon World by : Nicholas J. Higham
The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth to the late eleventh century, begins with the Roman retreat from the Western world and ends with the Norman takeover of England. Between these epochal events, many of the contours and patterns of English life that would endure for the next millennium were shaped. In this authoritative work, N. J. Higham and M. J. Ryan reexamine Anglo-Saxon England in the light of new research in disciplines as wide ranging as historical genetics, paleobotany, archaeology, literary studies, art history, and numismatics. The result is the definitive introduction to the Anglo-Saxon world, enhanced with a rich array of photographs, maps, genealogies, and other illustrations. The Anglo-Saxon period witnessed the birth of the English people, the establishment of Christianity, and the development of the English language. With an extraordinary cast of characters (Alfred the Great, the Venerable Bede, King Cnut), a long list of artistic and cultural achievements (Beowulf, the Sutton Hoo ship-burial finds, the Bayeux Tapestry), and multiple dramatic events (the Viking invasions, the Battle of Hastings), the Anglo-Saxon era lays legitimate claim to having been one of the most important in Western history.
Author |
: Michael Lapidge |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 398 |
Release |
: 2002-07-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521802105 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521802109 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 30 by : Michael Lapidge
The pre-eminence of Anglo-Saxon England in its field can be seen as a result of its encouragement of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. Thus this volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface, in which it is shown that the unusually formulaic nature of Boniface's letters is best understood as a reflex of the saint's familiarity with vernacular composition. A wide-ranging historical contextualization of The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle illuminates the way English readers of the later tenth century may have defined themselves in contradistinction to the monstrous unknown, and a fresh reading of the gendering of female portraiture in a famous illustrated manuscript of the Psychomachia of Prudentius (CCCC 23) shows the independent ways in which Anglo-Saxon illustrators were able to respond to their models. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book; and a full index of the contents of volumes 26-30 is provided. (Previous indexes have appeared in volumes 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25.)
Author |
: Frank Merry Stenton |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 444 |
Release |
: 1970 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0198223145 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780198223146 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England by : Frank Merry Stenton
Oxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available again great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in uniform series design, the reissues will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century.
Author |
: Della Hooke |
Publisher |
: Burns & Oates |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105023159390 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Landscape of Anglo-Saxon England by : Della Hooke
This book concerns the landscape that surrounded early medieval man, often described as he saw and experienced it. The Anglo-Saxon period was one of considerable change in settlement and land use patterns but the landscape regions that emerge, documented for the first time in history, are still familiar to us today. The image conjured up, and for the present it can hardly be any more than an image, is tentative and incomplete, for many more threads have been embroidered upon it in the thousand succeeding years; but the early patterns often guided the latter and occasionally still show through. This book examines the Anglo-Saxon's view of his natural surroundings and how he utilized the resources available -- the cropland, woodland and marginal land of pasture and fen -- and how this is reflected in administrative patterns, how it influenced settlement, communications and trade and, moreover, influenced the landscape patterns of successive ages.
Author |
: Peter Hunter Blair |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 442 |
Release |
: 2003-07-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521537770 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521537773 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England by : Peter Hunter Blair
This is a lucid, authoritative and well-balanced account of Anglo-Saxon history. The third edition includes an introduction by Simon Keynes. Between the end of the Roman occupation and the coming of the Normans, England was settled by Germanic races; the kingdom as a political unit was created, heathenism yielded to a vigorous Christian Church, superb works of art were made, and the English language - spoken and written - took its form. These origins of the English heritage are Hunter Blair's subject. The first two chapters survey Anglo-Saxon England: its wars, its invaders, its peoples and its kings. The remaining chapters deal with specific aspects of its culture: its Church, government, economy and literary achievement. Throughout the author uses illustrations and a wide range of sources - documents, archaeological evidence and place names - to illuminate the period as a whole. For this edition, Simon Keynes has prepared a thoroughly updated bibliography.
Author |
: Nicholas Howe |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2008-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300119336 |
ISBN-13 |
: 030011933X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing the Map of Anglo-Saxon England by : Nicholas Howe
Eminent Anglo-Saxonist Nicholas Howe explores how the English, in the centuries before the Norman Conquest, located themselves both literally and imaginatively in the world. His elegantly written study focuses on Anglo-Saxon representations of place as revealed in a wide variety of texts in Latin and Old English, as well as in diagrams of holy sites and a single map of the known world found in British Library, Cotton Tiberius B v. The scholar's investigations are supplemented and aided by insights gleaned from his many trips to physical sites. The Anglo-Saxons possessed a remarkable body of geographical knowledge in written rather than cartographic form, Howe demonstrates. To understand fully their cultural geography, he considers Anglo-Saxon writings about the places they actually inhabited and those they imagined. He finds in Anglo-Saxon geographic images a persistent sense of being far from the center of the world, and he discusses how these migratory peoples narrowed that distance and developed ways to define themselves.
Author |
: Michael Lapidge |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 1998-06-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521592526 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521592529 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 26 by : Michael Lapidge
In the present volume, the two essays that frame the book provide exciting insight into the mental world of the Anglo-Saxons by showing on the one hand how they understood the processes of reading and assimilating knowledge and, on the other, how they conceived of time and the passage of the seasons. In the field of art history, two essays treat two of the best-known Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. The lavish symbol pages in the 'Book of Durrow' are shown to reflect a programmatic exposition of the meaning of Easter, and a posthumous essay by a distinguished art historian shows how the Anglo-Saxon illustrations added to the 'Galba Psalter' are best to be understood in the context of the programme of learning instituted by King Alfred. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.
Author |
: Victoria Thompson |
Publisher |
: Boydell Press |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781843837312 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1843837315 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England by : Victoria Thompson
Study of late Anglo-Saxon texts and grave monuments illuminates contemporary attitudes towards dying and the dead. Pre-Conquest attitudes towards the dying and the dead have major implications for every aspect of culture, society and religion of the Anglo-Saxon period; but death-bed and funerary practices have been comparatively and unjustly neglected by historical scholarship. In her wide-ranging analysis, Dr Thompson examines such practices in the context of confessional and penitential literature, wills, poetry, chronicles and homilies, to show that complex and ambiguous ideas about death were current at all levels of Anglo-Saxon society. Her study also takes in grave monuments, showing in particular how the Anglo-Scandinavian sculpture of the ninth to the eleventh centuries may indicate notonly the status, but also the religious and cultural alignment of those who commissioned and made them. Victoria Thompson is Lecturer in the Centre for Nordic Studies at the University of the Highlands and Islands.
Author |
: Michael Lapidge |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2007-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521038430 |
ISBN-13 |
: 052103843X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Anglo-Saxon England by : Michael Lapidge
The principal emphasis of this book is the relationship between England and its neighbours in the pre-Conquest period. It brings together fresh information of England's place in the early medieval world, with essays concentrating on finance and trade, travel, learning and education. A detailed analysis of the Old English vocabulary for money and wealth shows different usage over two centuries reflects a developing awareness, particularly on the part of 'lfric, of the relationship between wealth and power. Medical recipes in Bald's Leechbook, which stipulate the use of exotic spices from Arabia, have stimulated a fascinating essay on how these ingredients may have made their way from Arabia and the Mediterranean to England. Other essays in this wide-ranging book examine the Old English Rune Poem in the context of its two later Scandinavian analogues; the use in England of Jerome's Hebracium translation of the psalter; and the study in English schools of the difficult verse of Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.