Search results for 'Anglo-saxon'

ISBN: 9781898281283
Published by : Anglo-Saxon Books
The first chapter provides an introduction to the Anglo-Saxon kitchen, cookery and supplies, background information about households, drinks, and cooking techniques. This is followed by forty-six recipes, including the rather disappointingly na... .... Learn More

Published by : Friends of Deerhurst Church
This slim volume is a reprint from the 2006 volume of the Journal of the Society of Antiquaries. It details an extremely rare Anglo-Saxon wall painting, discovered in 1993, and recently able to be studied in depth. The painting depicts a single... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780197263396
Published by : Oxford University Press
The 741 coins catalogued and illustrated here derive mostly from Swedish hoards of the 18th and 19th centuries. As well as the late Anglo-Saxon coins, there are also significant groups of Hiberno-Norse and Scandinavian imitations and Norman coi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503518190
Published by : Brepols
The twenty-six essays draw together insights from fields as diverse as archaeology, art history, and liturgy to reflect on the literature and material culture of the Anglo-Saxons. The first section looks outwards from the insular context, to m... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199230983
Published by : Oxford University Press
This book looks at the extraordinary career of Earl Leofwine and his descendants who held the earldom consistently from 994 down to 1071. Extraordinary, because this was a time of dynastic and political turmoil with constant changes in the pers... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843833628
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The Anglo-Saxon button brooch is a small disc brooch, about 2cm in diameter and decorated with a single human face mask, found mainly in southern England and occasionally in France; although many examples survive, its origins and development ar... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004158290
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Recent scholarship on the Anglo-Saxon prognostics has tried to place these texts within the realm of folklore and medicine, inspired largely by studies and editions from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By analysing prognostic mate... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780197264256
Published by : Oxford University Press
The latest volume in the acclaimed Corpus series completes the cataloguing of the stone sculptures of Yorkshire, and boosts our understanding of the artistic development of southern Northumbria in the pre-Viking and Anglo-Scandinavian periods. ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781902771717
Published by : Council for British Archaeology
The Cleatham cemetery in North Lincolnshire is, with over 1200 cremations and 62 burials, England's third largest Anglo-Saxon cemetery. It was in use throughout the early Anglo-Saxon period from the mid-5th century to the late 7th century. Foll... .... Learn More