Search results for 'anglo saxon'
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The Road to Hastings: The Politics of Power in Anglo-Saxon England [Paperback]
Paul Hill (Author)
£17.99ISBN: 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 -
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes: A Short Introduction to Anglo-Saxonism [Hardback]
J A Hilton (Author)
£9.95ISBN: 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 -
Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England [Hardback]
Mechthild Gretsch (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 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 -
Anglo-Saxon Royal Diplomas: A Palaeography [Hardback]
Susan D Thompson (Author)
Regular Price: £45.00
Special Price: £14.95
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 -
The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England [Hardback]
Catherine Karkov (Author);Karen Loise Jolly (Author);Sarah Larratt Keefer (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 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 -
Water and Fire: The myth of the Flood in Anglo-Saxon England [Hardback]
Daniel Anlezark (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 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 -
The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction [Paperback]
John Blair (Author)
£7.99ISBN: 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 -
Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England c. 600-900 [Hardback]
Sarah Foot (Author)
£61.00ISBN: 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 -
Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England c. 600-900 [Paperback]
Sarah Foot (Author)
£21.99ISBN: 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 -
Anglo-Saxon England: No. 34 [Hardback]
Malcolm Godden (Author)
£90.00ISBN: 9780521849067
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, palaeographic, religios, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - an... .... Learn More

