Manuscripts In The Anglo Saxon Kingdoms

Author : Claire Breay,Joanna Story
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Civilization, Anglo-Saxon
ISBN : 184682866X

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Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms by Claire Breay,Joanna Story Pdf

Manuscripts that were made and used in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms before the Norman conquest of England are treasure troves of art and text. Many of these books and documents were brought together in the British Library exhibition, 'Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: art, word, war.' Together, these manuscripts illuminate extensive intellectual connections as well as widespread scribal and artistic networks that developed within the islands of Britain and Ireland, and further afield across much of early medieval Europe. Using new scientific methods, as well as textual criticism, art historical analysis, and historical research, the essays in this richly illustrated volume, written by leading scholars, present innovative research that focuses on manuscripts that were copied, decorated, or used in the early English kingdoms and their neighbours across a 500-year period from the advent of Christianity among the English, c.600, to the age of conquest in the eleventh century.

Author : Claire Breay,Joanna Story
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : 0712352023

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Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms by Claire Breay,Joanna Story Pdf

The Anglo-Saxon period stretches from the arrival of Germanic groups on British shores in the early 5th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066. During these centuries, the English language was used and written down for the first time, pagan populations were converted to Christianity, and the foundations of the kingdom of England were laid. This richly illustrated new book - which accompanies a landmark British Library exhibition - presents Anglo-Saxon England as the home of a highly sophisticated artistic and political culture, deeply connected with its continental neighbours. Leading specialists in early medieval history, literature and culture engage with the unique, original evidence from which we can piece together the story of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, examining outstanding and beautiful objects such as highlights from the Staffordshire hoard and the Sutton Hoo burial. At the heart of the book is the British Library's outstanding collection of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, the richest source of evidence about Old English language and literature, including Beowulf and other poetry; the Lindisfarne Gospels, one of Britain's greatest artistic and religious treasures; the St Cuthbert Gospel, the earliest intact European book; and historical manuscripts such as Bede's Ecclesiastical History and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. These national treasures are discussed alongside other, internationally important literary and historical manuscripts held in major collections in Britain and Europe. This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, chart a fascinating and dynamic period in early medieval history, and will bring to life our understanding of these formative centuries.

Author : Michelle P. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106019484200

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Manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon Age by Michelle P. Brown Pdf

"The Anglo-Saxons first appeared on the historical scene as pagan pirates and mercenaries moving into the declining Roman Empire in the fifth century. By the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066, Anglo-Saxon England was one of the most sophisticated states in the medieval West, renowned for its ecclesiastical and cultural achievements. The written word was of tremendous importance in this transformation. Within a century of the introduction of Christianity and literacy, the book had become a central element of Anglo-Saxon society, and a rich vehicle for cultural and artistic expression. This new edition of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts provides a short introduction to the art of bookmaking in the Anglo-Saxon period and illustrates in colour over 150 examples of the finest Anglo-Saxon books in the British Library and other major collections."--Pub. desc.

Author : William Walker Atkinson
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9783736808607

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The Kybalion by William Walker Atkinson Pdf

The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy is a book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus. We take great pleasure in presenting to the attention of students and investigators of the Secret Doctrines this little work based upon the world-old Hermetic Teachings. There has been so little written upon this subject, not withstanding the countless references to the Teachings in the many works upon occultism, that the many earnest searchers after the Arcane Truths will doubtless welcome the appearance of this present volume. The purpose of this work is not the enunciation of any special philosophy or doctrine, but rather is to give to the students a statement of the Truth that will serve to reconcile the many bits of occult knowledge that they may have acquired, but which are apparently opposed to each other and which often serve to discourage and disgust the beginner in the study. Our intent is not to erect a new Temple of Knowledge, but rather to place in the hands of the student a Master-Key with which he may open the many inner doors in the Temple of Mystery through the main portals he has already entered. There is no portion of the occult teachings possessed by the world which have been so closely guarded as the fragments of the Hermetic Teachings which have come down to us over the tens of centuries which have elapsed since the lifetime of its great founder, Hermes Trismegistus, the "scribe of the gods," who dwelt in old Egypt in the days when the present race of men was in its infancy. Contemporary with Abraham, and, if the legends be true, an instructor of that venerable sage, Hermes was, and is, the Great Central Sun of Occultism, whose rays have served to illumine the countless teachings which have been promulgated since his time. All the fundamental and basic teachings embedded in the esoteric teachings of every race may be traced back to Hermes. Even the most ancient teachings of India undoubtedly have their roots in the original Hermetic Teachings.

Author : Lotte Hellinga,Nigel J. Morgan,J. B. Trapp,Rodney M. Thomson,John Barnard,David McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999-12-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521573467

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The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain by Lotte Hellinga,Nigel J. Morgan,J. B. Trapp,Rodney M. Thomson,John Barnard,David McKitterick Pdf

This volume of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain presents an overview of the century-and-a-half between the death of Chaucer in 1400 and the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557. The profound changes during that time in social, political and religious conditions are reflected in the dissemination and reception of the written word. The manuscript culture of Chaucer's day was replaced by an ambience in which printed books would become the norm. The emphasis in this collection of essays is on the demand and use of books. Patterns of ownership are identified as well as patterns of where, why and how books were written, printed, bound, acquired, read and passed from hand to hand. The book trade receives special attention, with emphasis on the large part played by imports and on links with printers in other countries, which were decisive for the development of printing and publishing in Britain.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : IND:30000109243034

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1969 Census of Agriculture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alice Juanita Sheppard
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802089844

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Families of the King by Alice Juanita Sheppard Pdf

In Families of the King, Alice Sheppard explicitly addresses the larger interpretive question of how the manuscripts function as history.

Author : Richard Fitzneale,F. E. L. Carter,Nigel (Bishop of Ely),Diana E. Greenway
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : UCAL:B4912446

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Constitutio Domus Regis by Richard Fitzneale,F. E. L. Carter,Nigel (Bishop of Ely),Diana E. Greenway Pdf

Corrections by: Carter, F.E.L.;; Unknown function: Greenway, D.E.

Author : W. M. Lindsay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107637818

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The Corpus Glossary by W. M. Lindsay Pdf

Originally published in 1921, this book contains the text of the eighth-century Corpus Glossary, one of the oldest extant texts in English, and one of the longest in the Mercian dialect. Lindsay provides critical comparisons with other surviving glossaries at the bottom of each page and indices in both Latin and Anglo-Saxon. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the interaction between Latin and Anglo-Saxon dialects or the history of Latin scholarship in Britain.

Author : Catherine E. Karkov,Sarah Larratt Keefer,Karen Louise Jolly
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 1843831945

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The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England by Catherine E. Karkov,Sarah Larratt Keefer,Karen Louise Jolly Pdf

The cross pervaded the whole of Anglo-Saxon culture, in art, in sculpture, in religion, in medicine. These new essays explore its importance and significance.

Author : John Blair
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691228426

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Building Anglo-Saxon England by John Blair Pdf

Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize A radical rethinking of the Anglo-Saxon world that draws on the latest archaeological discoveries This beautifully illustrated book draws on the latest archaeological discoveries to present a radical reappraisal of the Anglo-Saxon built environment and its inhabitants. John Blair, one of the world's leading experts on this transformative era in England's early history, explains the origins of towns, manor houses, and castles in a completely new way, and sheds new light on the important functions of buildings and settlements in shaping people's lives during the age of the Venerable Bede and King Alfred. Building Anglo-Saxon England demonstrates how hundreds of recent excavations enable us to grasp for the first time how regionally diverse the built environment of the Anglo-Saxons truly was. Blair identifies a zone of eastern England with access to the North Sea whose economy, prosperity, and timber buildings had more in common with the Low Countries and Scandinavia than the rest of England. The origins of villages and their field systems emerge with a new clarity, as does the royal administrative organization of the kingdom of Mercia, which dominated central England for two centuries. Featuring a wealth of color illustrations throughout, Building Anglo-Saxon England explores how the natural landscape was modified to accommodate human activity, and how many settlements--secular and religious—were laid out with geometrical precision by specialist surveyors. The book also shows how the Anglo-Saxon love of elegant and intricate decoration is reflected in the construction of the living environment, which in some ways was more sophisticated than it would become after the Norman Conquest.

Author : Dorothy Whitelock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107402218

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Anglo-Saxon Wills by Dorothy Whitelock Pdf

This 1930 volume contains the original texts of the great majority of surviving Anglo-Saxon wills drawn up in the tenth and eleventh centuries. They are of special interest for the light they cast on the connections of those who made the wills, and the ways in which the testators managed the disposition of their possessions.

Author : Claire Breay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Civilization, Anglo-Saxon -- Exhibitions
ISBN : OCLC:1236398748

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Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms by Claire Breay Pdf

Author : A. P. Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036665995

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The Tiberius psalter by A. P. Campbell Pdf

Author : Orietta Da Rold,Elaine Treharne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107102460

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts by Orietta Da Rold,Elaine Treharne Pdf

Explains the methods and knowledge required to understand how, why, and for whom manuscripts were made in medieval Britain.