Search results for 'anglo saxon'

ISBN: 9780752433080
Published by : Tempus Publishing Ltd
`Nobody woke up one morning in 1066 and decided to take a kingdom'. The Battle of Hastings, like most other battles in history, was the result of political errors, succession crises and golden opportunities which stretched back over several ge... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781898281399
Published by : Anglo-Saxon Books
This is not a book about 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 assumption; and the uses to which it has been put. .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521855419
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The cult of saints was one of the most important aspects of life in the Middle Ages, and it often formed the nucleus of developing group identities in a town, province or country. The literature of Anglo-Saxon England is unique amongst contempo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843832188
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The 118 presumed original royal Latin diplomas enacted before 1066 do much to illuminate our understanding of the Anglo-Saxons. This book aims to trace every aspect of their development and to create a chronological framework into which undated... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843831945
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The cross in early medieval England was so ubiquitous as to become invisible to the modern eye, and yet it played an innovative role in Angle-Saxon culture, evident in art, architecture, material culture, literature, ritual, medicine, and popu... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780719063985
Published by : Manchester University Press
Noah's Flood is one of the most popular and enduring stories from the Bible, and flood myths still exist in many cultures today. This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the Anglo-Saxon ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780192854032
Published by : Oxford University Press
A comprehensive and authoritative short guide to the Anglo-Saxons, the highly acclaimed text was first published in The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain . Blair covers the the period from the emergence of the earliest English settlements ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521859462
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This major new history of monasticism in early Anglo-Saxon England explores the history of the church between the conversion to Christianity in the sixth century and a monastic revival in the tenth. It represents the first comprehensive revis... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521739085
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This major new history of monasticism in early Anglo-Saxon England explores the history of the church between the conversion to Christianity in the sixth century and a monastic revival in the tenth. It represents the first comprehensive revis... .... Learn More