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The Anglo-Saxons

Marc Morris
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Author : Marc Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643135359

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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.

The Anglo-Saxon World

Nicholas J. Higham,M. J. Ryan
The Anglo Saxon World Book PDF

Author : Nicholas J. Higham,M. J. Ryan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300125344

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The Anglo-Saxon World by Nicholas J. Higham,M. J. Ryan Pdf

Presents the Anglo-Saxon period of English history from the fifth century up to the late eleventh century, covering such events as the spread of Christianity, the invasions of the Vikings, the composition of Beowulf, and the Battle of Hastings.

King John

Marc Morris
King John Book PDF

Author : Marc Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781605988863

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King John is one of those historical characters who needs little in the way of introduction. If readers are not already familiar with him as the tyrant whose misgovernment gave rise to Magna Carta, we remember him as the villain in the stories of Robin Hood. Formidable and cunning, but also cruel, lecherous, treacherous and untrusting. Twelve years into his reign, John was regarded as a powerful king within the British Isles. But despite this immense early success, when he finally crosses to France to recover his lost empire, he meets with disaster. John returns home penniless to face a tide of criticism about his unjust rule. The result is Magna Carta – a ground-breaking document in posterity, but a worthless piece of parchment in 1215, since John had no intention of honoring it. Like all great tragedies, the world can only be put to rights by the tyrant’s death. John finally obliges at Newark Castle in October 1216, dying of dysentery as a great gale howls up the valley of the Trent.

The Anglo-Saxon World

Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Anglo Saxon World Book PDF

Author : Kevin Crossley-Holland
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : 0192835475

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The Anglo-Saxon World by Kevin Crossley-Holland Pdf

Crossley-Holland--the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts--introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and poetry, with many of the greatest surviving poems printed in their entirety.

The Anglo-Saxon Age c.400-1042

D. J. V. Fisher
The Anglo Saxon Age c 400 1042 Book PDF

Author : D. J. V. Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317873198

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The Anglo-Saxon Age c.400-1042 by D. J. V. Fisher Pdf

An introductory survey which provides a clear and accessible account of the centuries between the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest.

The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past

Martin Brett,David A. Woodman
The Long Twelfth Century View of the Anglo Saxon Past Book PDF

Author : Martin Brett,David A. Woodman
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472428196

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The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past by Martin Brett,David A. Woodman Pdf

Scholars have long been interested in the extent to which the Anglo-Saxon past can be understood using material written, and produced, in the twelfth century; and simultaneously in the continued importance (or otherwise) of the Anglo-Saxon past in the generations following the Norman Conquest of England. In order to better understand these issues, this volume provides a series of essays that moves scholarship forward in two significant ways. Firstly, it scrutinises how the Anglo-Saxon past continued to be reused and recycled throughout the longue durée of the twelfth century, as opposed to the early decades that are usually covered. Secondly, by bringing together scholars who are experts in various different scholarly disciplines, the volume deals with a much broader range of historical, linguistic, legal, artistic, palaeographical and cultic evidence than has hitherto been the case. Divided into four main parts: The Anglo-Saxon Saints; Anglo-Saxon England in the Narrative of Britain; Anglo-Saxon Law and Charter; and Art-history and the French Vernacular, it scrutinises the majority of different genres of source material that are vital in any study of early medieval British history. In so doing the resultant volume will become a standard reference point for students and scholars alike interested in the ways in which the Anglo-Saxon past continued to be of importance and interest throughout the twelfth century.

The Anglo-Saxon Library

Michael Lapidge
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Author : Michael Lapidge
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191533013

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The Anglo-Saxon Library by Michael Lapidge Pdf

The cardinal role of Anglo-Saxon libraries in the transmission of classical and patristic literature to the later middle ages has long been recognized, for these libraries sustained the researches of those English scholars whose writings determined the curriculum of medieval schools: Aldhelm, Bede, and Alcuin, to name only the best known. Yet this is the first full-length account of the nature and holdings of Anglo-Saxon libraries from the sixth century to the eleventh. The early chapters discuss libraries in antiquity, notably at Alexandria and republican and imperial Rome, and also the Christian libraries of late antiquity which supplied books to Anglo-Saxon England. Because Anglo-Saxon libraries themselves have almost completely vanished, three classes of evidence need to be combined in order to form a detailed impression of their holdings: surviving inventories, surviving manuscripts, and citations of classical and patristic works by Anglo-Saxon authors themselves. After setting out the problems entailed in using such evidence, the book provides appendices containing editions of all surviving Anglo-Saxon inventories, lists of all Anglo-Saxon manuscripts exported to continental libraries during the eighth century and then all manuscripts re-imported into England in the tenth, as well as a catalogue of all citations of classical and patristic literature by Anglo-Saxon authors. A comprehensive index, arranged alphabetically by author, combines these various classes of evidence so that the reader can see at a glance what books were known where and by whom in Anglo-Saxon England. The book thus provides, within a single volume, a vast amount of information on the books and learning of the schools which determined the course of medieval literary culture.

The Anglo-Saxon Age

Martin Wall
The Anglo Saxon Age Book PDF

Author : Martin Wall
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445647739

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The Wealth of Anglo-Saxon England

Peter Sawyer
The Wealth of Anglo Saxon England Book PDF

Author : Peter Sawyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780199253937

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The Wealth of Anglo-Saxon England by Peter Sawyer Pdf

Explains how, on the eve of the Norman Conquest, England had become an exceptionally wealthy, highly urbanized kingdom, with a large, well-controlled coinage of high quality.

The Anglo-Saxon Tradition

George G. E. Catlin
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Author : George G. E. Catlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000327434

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The Anglo-Saxon Tradition by George G. E. Catlin Pdf

First published in 1939, The Anglo-Saxon Tradition puts forward Catlin’s view on the power of the Anglo-Saxon Tradition to unite Europe. The book identifies the distinguishing features of this Tradition as respect for personality, liberty, experiment, tolerance, accommodation, democracy, federalism, moralism, and public spirit, and emphasises its role in standing against contemporary totalitarian ideologies. The volume outlines Catlin’s plan for the confederation of Anglo-Saxony in relation to what he presents as the central issue for civilisation: the conflict between the ideal of Dominion over Man, and the ideal of Power over Things. The Anglo-Saxon Tradition will appeal to those with an interest in the history of philosophy and the history of political thought.

Building Anglo-Saxon England

John Blair
Building Anglo Saxon England Book PDF

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.

Anglo-Saxon Art

Leslie Webster
Anglo Saxon Art Book PDF

Author : Leslie Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : CUB:U183051609506

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Anglo-Saxon Art by Leslie Webster Pdf

The seven centuries of the Anglo-Saxon period in England, roughly AD 400-1100, were a time of extraordinary and profound transformation in almost every aspect of its culture, culminating in a dramatic shift from a barbarian society to a recognizably medieval civilization. This book traces the changing nature of that art, the different roles it played in Anglo-Saxon culture, and the various ways it both reflected and influenced the changing context in which it was created.

Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England

Michael Lapidge,Helmut Gneuss,Cambridge University Press
Learning and Literature in Anglo Saxon England Book PDF

Author : Michael Lapidge,Helmut Gneuss,Cambridge University Press
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521259026

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Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England by Michael Lapidge,Helmut Gneuss,Cambridge University Press Pdf

An collection of essays by specialists in the field examining Anglo-Saxon learning and text interpretation and transmission.

Anglo-Saxon England

Sally Crawford
Anglo Saxon England Book PDF

Author : Sally Crawford
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0747808368

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Anglo-Saxon England by Sally Crawford Pdf

Early Anglo-Saxon England saw some of the most important elements in the creation of modern England: the Germanic migrations after the departure of the Romans and the introduction of Christianity in the 7th century. While traditionally the early centuries of Anglo-Saxon England have been disregarded as"'lost centuries," archaeological evidence, paired with the later written sources, can reveal a complex and often sophisticated society. This period saw the beginnings of urbanization, with the establishment of market-places enabling the trade of local and exotic goods, and the first schools were introduced in the 7th century. Sally Crawford looks at how the Anglo-Saxons lived, from the composition of an Anglo-Saxon family and how status was defined by an individual's occupation, to the complexities of feasting and drinking and how adults and children found entertainment.

Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England

Barbara Yorke
Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo Saxon England Book PDF

Author : Barbara Yorke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134707256

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Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England by Barbara Yorke Pdf

Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England provides a unique survey of the six major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and their royal families, examining the most recent research in this field.