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Author : Marc Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643135359

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The Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris Pdf

A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these people across the next six centuries. It explains how their earliest rulers fought relentlessly against each other for glory and supremacy, and then were almost destroyed by the onslaught of the vikings. It explores how they abandoned their old gods for Christianity, established hundreds of churches and created dazzlingly intricate works of art. It charts the revival of towns and trade, and the origins of a familiar landscape of shires, boroughs and bishoprics. It is a tale of famous figures like King Offa, Alfred the Great and Edward the Confessor, but also features a host of lesser known characters - ambitious queens, revolutionary saints, intolerant monks and grasping nobles. Through their remarkable careers we see how a new society, a new culture and a single unified nation came into being. Drawing on a vast range of original evidence - chronicles, letters, archaeology and artefacts - renowned historian Marc Morris illuminates a period of history that is only dimly understood, separates the truth from the legend, and tells the extraordinary story of how the foundations of England were laid.

Author : Sharon Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : OSU:32435077495919

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The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest by Sharon Turner Pdf

Author : Martin G. Welch
Publisher : Batsford
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : UOM:39015029170274

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English Heritage Book of Anglo-Saxon England by Martin G. Welch Pdf

Grossbritannien/Irland - Siedlung - Holzarchitektur.

Author : Angus Wilson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571280865

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Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson Pdf

'Angus Wilson is one of the most enjoyable novelists of the 20th century... Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956) analyses a wide range of British society in a complicated plot that offers all the pleasures of detective fiction combined with a steady and humane insight.' Margaret Drabble First published in 1956, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes draws upon perhaps the most famous archaeological hoax in history: the 'Piltdown Man', finally exposed in 1953. The novel's protagonist is Gerald Middleton, professor of early medieval history and taciturn creature of habit. Separated from his Swedish wife, Gerald is increasingly conscious of his failings. Moreover, some years ago he was involved in an excavation that led to the discovery of a grotesque idol in the tomb of Bishop Eorpwald. The sole survivor of the original excavation party, Gerald harbours a potentially ruinous secret...

Author : William Frederick Poole,William Isaac Fletcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : UOM:49015003212454

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Poole's Index to Periodical Literature: pt. 1. A-J, 1802-1881 by William Frederick Poole,William Isaac Fletcher Pdf

Author : Scott Thompson Smith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442644861

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Land and Book by Scott Thompson Smith Pdf

Land and Book places a variety of texts in a dynamic conversation with the procedures and documents of land tenure, showing how its social practice led to innovation across written genres in both Latin and Old English.

Author : Edoardo Campanella,Marta Dassu
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190068936

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Anglo Nostalgia by Edoardo Campanella,Marta Dassu Pdf

Does not seek to judge the wisdom of Britain leaving the EU, but exposes nostalgia's great danger: the oversimplification of reality. Nostalgia has become a major force in global politics. While Donald Trump promises to "make America great again", Xi Jinping calls for a "great rejuvenation ofthe Chinese people", and a majority of Russians still mourn the Soviet Union. Now, hardline Brexiteers are yearning for a revival of the British Empire. Despite its romantic flavor, nostalgia is a malaise - a combination of paranoia and melancholy that idealizes the past, while denigrating the present. This epidemic of mythicizing national history is shaping politics in risky ways, fueled by ageing populations, shifts in the global order, andtechnological disruption. Nowhere has more starkly epitomized this new age of nostalgic nationalism than Britain, where Brexiteers trapped in an idealized past are reviving calls for a political Anglosphere, founded on dreams of their buccaneering heritage and inherent connection with their true"kith and kin". Drawing on psychology, political science, history and popular culture, Anglo Nostalgia analyses the rapid spread of this global phenomenon, before focusing on Brexit as a case study. Without seeking to judge the wisdom of Britain leaving the EU, Campanella and Dassu expose nostalgia's great danger:the oversimplification of reality, leading to unprecedented political miscalculations and rising geopolitical tensions.

Author : Thomas II Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z22928030X

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“The” Homes of Other Days by Thomas II Wright Pdf

Author : Eric P. KAUFMANN,Eric P Kaufmann
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674039384

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The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America by Eric P. KAUFMANN,Eric P Kaufmann Pdf

As the 2000 census resoundingly demonstrated, the Anglo-Protestant ethnic core of the United States has all but dissolved. In a country founded and settled by their ancestors, British Protestants now make up less than a fifth of the population. This demographic shift has spawned a culture war within white America. While liberals seek to diversify society toward a cosmopolitan endpoint, some conservatives strive to maintain an American ethno-national identity. Eric Kaufmann traces the roots of this culture war from the rise of WASP America after the Revolution to its fall in the 1960s, when social institutions finally began to reflect the nation's ethnic composition. Kaufmann begins his account shortly after independence, when white Protestants with an Anglo-Saxon myth of descent established themselves as the dominant American ethnic group. But from the late 1890s to the 1930s, liberal and cosmopolitan ideological currents within white Anglo-Saxon Protestant America mounted a powerful challenge to WASP hegemony. This struggle against ethnic dominance was mounted not by subaltern immigrant groups but by Anglo-Saxon reformers, notably Jane Addams and John Dewey. It gathered social force by the 1920s, struggling against WASP dominance and achieving institutional breakthrough in the late 1960s, when America truly began to integrate ethnic minorities into mainstream culture.

Author : Brent A. Pitts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503591337

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The Anglo-Norman Bible's Book of Joshua by Brent A. Pitts Pdf

The Anglo-Norman Bible's Joshua includes tales of spies, giants, the prostitute Rahab, the punishment of Achan, oracles, and Joshua's brilliant military victories. Joshua stops the sun. The first half of the book relates Joshua's stunning conquests in Canaan. The second half, the apportionment of the land among the tribes, detailed geographical surveys of territorial boundaries, and the death of Joshua. Skilful, well-paced story telling is a feature of the ANB's Joshua. To the accounts of Rahab and Achan we may add the chronicle of Joshua's successful, crushing campaign in the wake of the destruction of Makkedah. In rapid succession, and in an annalistic style involving staccato repetition of key phrases, the narrator relates the destruction of Libnah, Lachish, Eglon, Hebron, and Debir. The text of the ANB's Joshua is extant in British Library Royal 1 C III (base manuscript, L) and Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France, MS francais 1 (P), both c. 1350 and both the Bibles of kings. L belonged at some point in the fifteenth century to Reading's Benedictine abbey, entering the royal library in 1530. Characteristic of L is its occasional insertion of short glosses in English or Latin to clarify or correct the Anglo-Norman text. An illustrated text, P was prepared by an English workshop for the fourth baron de Welles, John, and his wife, Maud, daughter of William, Lord Ros. This is clearly the Bible of a wealthy and well-connected English family. After the Welles family, the manuscript belonged to Louis de Bruges (1492), then to King Louis XII of France.

Author : Alan P. Dobson,Steve Marsh
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800734791

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Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas by Alan P. Dobson,Steve Marsh Pdf

Too often, scholarship on Anglo-American political relations has focused on mutual social and economic interests between Britain and the United States as the basis for cooperation. Breaking new ground, Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas instead explores how ideas, on either side of the Atlantic have mutually influenced each other. In those transnational interactions, there forms a shared tradition of political ideas, facilitating “a common cast of mind” that has served as the basis for transatlantic relations and socio-political values for decades.

Author : Ladelle McWhorter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253220639

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Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America by Ladelle McWhorter Pdf

Does the black struggle for civil rights make common cause with the movement to foster queer community, protest anti-queer violence or discrimination, and demand respect for the rights and sensibilities of queer people? Confronting this emotionally charged question, Ladelle McWhorter reveals how a carefully structured campaign against abnormality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries encouraged white Americans to purge society of so-called biological contaminants, people who were poor, disabled, black, or queer. Building on a legacy of savage hate crimes—such as the killings of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd—McWhorter shows that racism, sexual oppression, and discrimination against the disabled, the feeble, and the poor are all aspects of the same societal distemper, and that when the civil rights of one group are challenged, so are the rights of all.

Author : Gerald P. Dyson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783273669

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Priests and Their Books in Late Anglo-Saxon England by Gerald P. Dyson Pdf

Fresh perspectives on the English clergy, their books, and the wider Anglo-Saxon church.

Author : Jane Bliss
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781783743162

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An Anglo-Norman Reader by Jane Bliss Pdf

This book is an anthology with a difference. It presents a distinctive variety of Anglo-Norman works, beginning in the twelfth century and ending in the nineteenth, covering a broad range of genres and writers, introduced in a lively and thought-provoking way. Facing-page translations, into accessible and engaging modern English, are provided throughout, bringing these texts to life for a contemporary audience. The collection offers a selection of fascinating passages, and whole texts, many of which are not anthologised or translated anywhere else. It explores little-known byways of Arthurian legend and stories of real-life crime and punishment; women’s voices tell history, write letters, berate pagans; advice is offered on how to win friends and influence people, how to cure people’s ailments and how to keep clear of the law; and stories from the Bible are retold with commentary, together with guidance on prayer and confession. Each text is introduced and elucidated with notes and full references, and the material is divided into three main sections: Story (a variety of narrative forms), Miscellany (including letters, law and medicine, and other non-fiction), and Religious (saints' lives, sermons, Bible commentary, and prayers). Passages in one genre have been chosen so as to reflect themes or stories that appear in another, so that the book can be enjoyed as a collection or used as a resource to dip into for selected texts. This anthology is essential reading for students and scholars of Anglo-Norman and medieval literature and culture. Wide-ranging and fully referenced, it can be used as a springboard for further study or relished in its own right by readers interested to discover Anglo-Norman literature that was written to amuse, instruct, entertain, or admonish medieval audiences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Literature
ISBN : CUB:U183015756828

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Fraser's Magazine by Anonim Pdf