Anglo Saxon Attitudes

Author : Angus Wilson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571280865

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'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 : Angus Wilson
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 159017142X

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Gerald Middleton is a sixty-year-old self-proclaimed failure. Worse than that, he’s "a failure with a conscience." As a young man, he was involved in an archaeological dig that turned up an obscene idol in the coffin of a seventh-century bishop and scandalized a generation. The discovery was in fact the most outrageous archaeological hoax of the century, and Gerald has long known who was responsible and why. But to reveal the truth is to risk destroying the world of cozy compromises that, personally as well as professionally, he has long made his own. One of England's first openly gay novelists, Angus Wilson was a dirty realist who relished the sleaze and scuffle of daily life. Slashingly satirical, virtuosically plotted, and displaying Dickensian humor and nerve, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes features a vivid cast of characters that includes scheming academics and fading actresses, big businessmen toggling between mistresses and wives, media celebrities, hustlers, transvestites, blackmailers, toadies, and even one holy fool. Everyone, it seems, is either in cahoots or in the dark, even as comically intrepid Gerald Middleton struggles to maintain some dignity while digging up a history of lies.

Author : Angus Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Fiction
ISBN : OCLC:86027744

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At 64 Gerald Middleton, a former professor of medieval history, is filled with self-recrimination and self-disgust, but he gets a chance to rectify his life.

Author : Angus Wilson
Publisher : London, Secker
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Archaeologists
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010125149

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Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson Pdf

Author : Angus Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:464929440

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Author : Angus Wilson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571287642

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Hemlock and After by Angus Wilson Pdf

On its appearance in 1952 the Times Literary Supplement called Hemlock and After 'a novel of remarkable power and literary skill which deserves to be judged by the highest standards'. Angus Wilson's first novel is concerned with the hypocrisies of middle-class society. The protagonist, Bernard Sands, is a novelist and an intellectual who tries to found a centre for young writers. However, Sands is a secret homosexual and in the post-war Britain of the time his liberal ideas cause much anxiety to those in charge. Surrounded by false friends and scheming enemies Sands has to come to terms with his emotions and is forced to decide where his loyalties lie. A compassionately written novel Hemlock and After explores the conflict of duty and love in one man's life and the consequences of our choices. Written at a time when homosexuality was still an offence Hemlock and After is a brilliantly handled novel from a writer who was described by John Betjeman as 'mercilessly accurate and never dull.'

Author : Catherine E. Karkov
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1843830590

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The Ruler Portraits of Anglo-Saxon England by Catherine E. Karkov Pdf

The author argues that this series of portraits, never before studied as a corpus, creates a visual genealogy equivalent to the textual genealogies and regnal lists that are so much a feature of late Anglo-Saxon culture. As such they are an important part of the way in which the kings and queens of early medieval England created both their history and their kingdom."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : N. J. Higham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015074271357

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Britons in Anglo-Saxon England by N. J. Higham Pdf

The question of the British presence in Anglo-Saxon England readdressed by archaeologists, historians, linguists, and place-name specialists. The number of native Britons, and their role, in Anglo-Saxon England has been hotly debated for generations; the English were seen as Germanic in the nineteenth century, but the twentieth saw a reinvention of the German "past". Today, the scholarly community is as deeply divided as ever on the issue: place-name specialists have consistently preferred minimalist interpretations, privileging migration from Germany, while other disciplinary groups have been less united in their views, with many archaeologists and historians viewing the British presence, potentially at least, as numerically significant or even dominant. The papers collected here seek to shed new light on this complex issue, by bringing together contributions from different disciplinary specialists and exploring the interfaces between various categories of knowledge about the past. They assemble both a substantial body of evidence concerning the presence of Britons and offer a variety of approaches to the central issues of the scale of that presence and its significance across the seven centuries of Anglo-Saxon England. NICK HIGHAM is Professor of Early Medieval and Landscape History at the University of Manchester. Contributors: RICHARD COATES, MARTIN GRIMMER, HEINRICH HARKE, NICK HIGHAM, CATHERINE HILLS, LLOYD LAING, C.P. LEWIS, GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER, O.J. PADEL, DUNCANPROBERT, PETER SCHRIJVER, DAVID THORNTON, HILDEGARD L.C. TRISTRAM, DAMIAN TYLER, HOWARD WILLIAMS, ALEX WOOLF

Author : Angus Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0749309148

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Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson Pdf

Author : Magnús Fjalldal
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802038371

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Anglo-Saxon England in Icelandic Medieval Texts by Magnús Fjalldal Pdf

Medieval Icelandic authors wrote a great deal on the subject of England and the English. This new work by Magnús Fjalldal is the first to provide an overview of what Icelandic medieval texts have to say about Anglo-Saxon England in respect to its language, culture, history, and geography. Some of the texts Fjalldal examines include family sagas, the shorter þættir, the histories of Norwegian and Danish kings, and the Icelandic lives of Anglo-Saxon saints. Fjalldal finds that in response to a hostile Norwegian court and kings, Icelandic authors - from the early thirteenth century onwards (although they were rather poorly informed about England before 1066) - created a largely imaginary country where friendly, generous, although rather ineffective kings living under constant threat welcomed the assistance of saga heroes to solve their problems. The England of Icelandic medieval texts is more of a stage than a country, and chiefly functions to provide saga heroes with fame abroad. Since many of these texts are rarely examined outside of Iceland or in the English language, Fjalldal's book is important for scholars of both medieval Norse culture and Anglo-Saxon England.

Author : Hugh Magennis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Cooking
ISBN : UOM:39015046899095

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Anglo-Saxon Appetites by Hugh Magennis Pdf

In examining the treatment of food and drink and eating and drinking, Food and Drink in Anglo-Saxon Britain focuses centrally on Old English poetry but also refers extensively to the prose and to texts in other early Germanic languages and in Latin.

Author : Sarah Foot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521859462

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Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, C.600-900 by Sarah Foot Pdf

A major 2006 history of English monasticism between the sixth and tenth centuries.

Author : John Anthony Hilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064893905

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Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by John Anthony Hilton Pdf

This is not a book about the Anglo-Saxons, but a book about books about Anglo-Saxons. It describes the academic discipline of Anglo-Saxonism, the methods of study used, the underlying assumptions, and the uses to which it has been put. Methods and motives have changed over time, but right from the start there have been the constant themes of Anglo-Saxon democracy and the rights of the freeborn Englishman. They have given rise to ideas and perceptions that have greatly influenced the development of English society and political history.

Author : Brandon W. Hawk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487503055

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Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England by Brandon W. Hawk Pdf

Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England is the first examination of Christian apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England, focusing on the use of biblical narratives in Old English sermons. This work demonstrates that apocryphal media are a substantial part of the apparatus of Christian tradition inherited by Anglo-Saxons.

Author : Angus Wilson
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590177846

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Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson Pdf

Gerald Middleton is a sixty-year-old self-proclaimed failure. Worse than that, he’s "a failure with a conscience." As a young man, he was involved in an archaeological dig that turned up an obscene idol in the coffin of a seventh-century bishop and scandalized a generation. The discovery was in fact the most outrageous archaeological hoax of the century, and Gerald has long known who was responsible and why. But to reveal the truth is to risk destroying the world of cozy compromises that, personally as well as professionally, he has long made his own. One of England's first openly gay novelists, Angus Wilson was a dirty realist who relished the sleaze and scuffle of daily life. Slashingly satirical, virtuosically plotted, and displaying Dickensian humor and nerve, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes features a vivid cast of characters that includes scheming academics and fading actresses, big businessmen toggling between mistresses and wives, media celebrities, hustlers, transvestites, blackmailers, toadies, and even one holy fool. Everyone, it seems, is either in cahoots or in the dark, even as comically intrepid Gerald Middleton struggles to maintain some dignity while digging up a history of lies.