Writing The Map Of Anglo Saxon England

Author : Nicholas Howe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300119336

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Writing the Map of Anglo-Saxon England by Nicholas Howe Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : 0300150148

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Writing the Map of Anglo-Saxon England by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442646124

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Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England by Paul E. Szarmach Pdf

The twelve essays in this collection advance the contemporary study of the women saints of Anglo-Saxon England by challenging received wisdom and offering alternative methodologies. The work embraces a number of different scholarly approaches, from codicological study to feminist theory. While some contributions are dedicated to the description and reconstruction of female lives of saints and their cults, others explore the broader ideological and cultural investments of the literature. The volume concentrates on four major areas: the female saint in the Old English Martyrology, genre including hagiography and homelitic writing, motherhood and chastity, and differing perspectives on lives of virgin martyrs. The essays reveal how saints' lives that exist on the apparent margins of orthodoxy actually demonstrate a successful literary challenge extending the idea of a holy life.

Author : Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521883423

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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 35 by Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes Pdf

Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and which promotes the more unusual interests - in music or medicine or education, for example. Articles in volume 35 include: Record of the twelfth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists at Bavarian-American Centre, University of Munich, 1-6 August 2005; Virgil the Grammarian and Bede: a preliminary study; Knowledge of whelk dyes and pigments in Anglo-Saxon England; The representation of the mind as an enclosure in Old English poetry; The origin of the numbered sections in Beowulf and in other Old English poems; An ethnic dating of Beowulf; Hrothgar's horses: feral or thoroughbred?; 'thelthryth of Ely in a lost calendar from Munich; Alfred's epistemological metaphors: eagan modes and scip modes; Bibliography for 2005.

Author : Helen Foxhall Forbes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317123064

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Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England by Helen Foxhall Forbes Pdf

Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence. This is the first full-length study investigating how Christian theology and religious beliefs permeated society and underpinned social values in early medieval England. The influence of the early medieval Church as an institution is widely acknowledged, but Christian theology itself is generally considered to have been accessible only to a small educated elite. This book shows that theology had a much greater and more significant impact than has been recognised. An examination of theology in its social context, and how it was bound up with local authorities and powers, reveals a much more subtle interpretation of secular processes, and shows how theological debate affected the ways that religious and lay individuals lived and died. This was not a one-way flow, however: this book also examines how social and cultural practices and interests affected the development of theology in Anglo-Saxon England, and how ’popular’ belief interacted with literary and academic traditions. Through case-studies, this book explores how theological debate and discussion affected the personal perspectives of Christian Anglo-Saxons, including where possible those who could not read. In all of these, it is clear that theology was not detached from society or from the experiences of lay people, but formed an essential constituent part.

Author : Nicholas Howe
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature
ISBN : 026803463X

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Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England by Nicholas Howe Pdf

A revisionist interpretation of Anglo-Saxon England. Nicholas Howe proposes that the Anglo-Saxons fashioned a myth out of the 5th-century migration of their Germanic ancestors to Britain. Through the retelling of this story, the Anglo-Saxons ordered their complex history and identified their destiny as a people. Howe traces the migration myth throughout the literature of the Anglo-Saxon period, in poems, sermons, letters and histories from the sixth to the eleventh centuries.

Author : Catherine E. Karkov
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781843836285

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

Providing a fresh appraisal of the art of Anglo-Saxon England, this text looks at its influence upon the creation of an identity as a nation.

Author : Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521194068

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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 38 by Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes Pdf

Anglo-Saxon England was the first publication to consistently embrace all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and which promotes the more unusual interests - in music or medicine or education, for example. Articles in volume 38 include: The Passio Andreae and The Dream of the Rood by Thomas D. Hill, Beowulf off the Map by Alfred Hiatt, Numerical Composition and Beowulf: A Re-consideration by Yvette Kisor, 'The Landed Endowment of the Anglo-Saxon Minster at Hanbury (Worcs.) by Steven Bassett, Scapegoating the Secular Clergy: The Hermeneutic Style as a Form of Monastic Self-Definition by Rebecca Stephenson, Understanding Numbers in MS London, British Library Harley by Daniel Anlezark, Tudor Antiquaries and the Vita 'dwardi Regis by Henry Summerso and Earl Godwine's Ship by Simon Keynes and Rosalind Love. A comprehensive bibliography concludes the volume, listing publications on Anglo-Saxon England during 2008.

Author : Ruth Wehlau
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110661972

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Darkness, Depression, and Descent in Anglo-Saxon England by Ruth Wehlau Pdf

This collection of essays examines the motifs of darkness, depression, and descent in both literal and figurative manifestations within a variety of Anglo-Saxon texts, including the Old English Consolation of Philosophy, Beowulf, Guthlac, The Junius Manuscript, The Wonders of the East, and The Battle of Maldon. Essays deal with such topics as cosmic emptiness, descent into the grave, and recurrent grief. In their analyses, the essays reveal the breadth of this imagery in Anglo-Saxon literature as it is used to describe thought and emotion, as well as the limits to knowledge and perception. The volume investigates the intersection between the burgeoning interest in trauma studies and darkness and the representation of the mind or of emotional experience within Anglo-Saxon literature.

Author : Mark Atherton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786721549

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The Making of England by Mark Atherton Pdf

During the tenth century England began to emerge as a distinct country with an identity that was both part of yet separate from 'Christendom'. The reigns of Athelstan, Edgar and Ethelred witnessed the emergence of many key institutions: the formation of towns on modern street plans; an efficient administration; and a serviceable system of tax. Mark Atherton here shows how the stories, legends, biographies and chronicles of Anglo-Saxon England reflected both this exciting time of innovation as well as the myriad lives, loves and hates of the people who wrote them. He demonstrates, too, that this was a nation coming of age, ahead of its time in its use not of the Book-Latin used elsewhere in Europe, but of a narrative Old English prose devised for law and practical governance of the nation-state, for prayer and preaching, and above all for exploring a rich and daring new literature. This prose was unique, but until now it has been neglected for the poetry. Bringing a volatile age to vivid and muscular life, Atherton argues that it was the vernacular of Alfred the Great, as much as Viking war, that truly forged the nation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004432338

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The Languages of Early Medieval Charters by Anonim Pdf

This is the first major study of the interplay between Latin and Germanic vernaculars in early medieval records, examining the role of language choice in the documentary cultures of the Anglo-Saxon and eastern Frankish worlds.

Author : Rory Naismith,David A. Woodman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107160972

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Writing, Kingship, and Power in Anglo-Saxon England by Rory Naismith,David A. Woodman Pdf

This book brings together new research that represents current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England. Ranging from the seventh to the eleventh century, the chapters in this volume offer fresh approaches to a wide range of linguistic, historical, legal, diplomatic and palaeographical evidence.

Author : Nicole Guenther Discenza
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487500658

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Inhabited Spaces by Nicole Guenther Discenza Pdf

In Inhabited Spaces, Nicole Guenther Discenza examines a variety of Anglo-Latin and Old English texts to shed light on Anglo-Saxon understandings of space.

Author : N. J. Higham,Martin J. Ryan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843835820

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The Landscape Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England by N. J. Higham,Martin J. Ryan Pdf

The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial to the development of the English landscape, but is rarely studied. The essays here provide radical new interpretations of its development. Traditional opinion has perceived the Anglo-Saxons as creating an entirely new landscape from scratch in the fifth and sixth centuries AD, cutting down woodland, and bringing with them the practice of open field agriculture, and establishing villages. Whilst recent scholarship has proved this simplistic picture wanting, it has also raised many questions about the nature of landscape development at the time, the changing nature of systems of land management, and strategies for settlement. The papers here seek to shed new light on these complex issues. Taking a variety of different approaches, and with topics ranging from the impact of coppicing to medieval field systems, from the representation of the landscape in manuscripts to cereal production and the type of bread the population preferred, they offer striking new approaches to the central issues of landscape change across the seven centuries of Anglo-Saxon England, a period surely foundational to the rural landscape of today. NICHOLAS J. HIGHAM is Professor of Early Medieval and Landscape History at the University of Manchester; MARTIN J. RYAN lectures in Medieval History at the University of Manchester. Contributors: Nicholas J. Higham, Christopher Grocock, Stephen Rippon, Stuart Brookes, Carenza Lewis, Susan Oosthuizen, Tom Williamson, Catherine Karkov, David Hill, Debby Banham, Richard Hoggett, Peter Murphy.

Author : Cynthia Turner Camp
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844020

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Anglo-Saxon Saints Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England by Cynthia Turner Camp Pdf

A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives.