Search results for 'anglo-saxon books'
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A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Pottery from Lincoln [Hardback]
Alan G. Vince (Author); Jane Young (Author); Victoria Naylor (Author)
Regular Price: £35.00
Special Price: £10.00
ISBN: 9781842170830
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Lincoln Archaeology Studies
Volume: 7
Lincoln was the centre for a large Medieval pottery industry which flourished from the 9th to the 15th century. Pottery produced in Lincoln was traded over a large part of the east midlands and beyond - even as far as Birka in Sweden. Despite t... .... Learn More -
Rural Settlement, Lifestyles and Social Change in the Later First Millennium AD at Flixborough, Lincolnshire: Anglo-Saxon Flixborough in its Wider Context [Hardback]
Christopher Loveluck (Author)
Regular Price: £30.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9781842172568
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Excavations at Flixborough
Volume: 4
Between 1989 and 1991, excavations in the parish of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, unearthed remains of an Anglo-Saxon settlement associated with one of the largest collections of artefacts and animal bones yet found on such a site. In an un... .... Learn More -
Farmers, Monks and Aristocrats: The environmental archaeology of Anglo-Saxon Flixborough [Hardback]
K. M. Dobney (Author); D. Jaques (Author); James Barrett (Author); Cluny Johnstone (Author)
Regular Price: £30.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9781842172902
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Excavations at Flixborough
Volume: 3
The environmental archaeological evidence from the site of Flixborough (in particular the animal bone assemblage) provides a series of unique insights into Anglo-Saxon life in England during the 8th to 10th centuries. The research reveals detai... .... Learn More -
Signals of Belief in Early England: Anglo-Saxon Paganism Revisited [Paperback]
Martin Carver (Editor); Sarah Semple (Author); Alex Sanmark (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781842173954
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume will throw new light on the intellect of the earliest English - the way they thought, the way they viewed the world, and the way they viewed worlds other than this. Previous understanding of the topic, well rooted in the ideas of i... .... Learn More -
Burial in Later Anglo-Saxon England, c.650-1100 AD [Hardback]
Jo Buckberry (Author); Annia Cherryson (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781842179659
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Volume: 4
Traditionally the study of early medieval burial practices in England has focused on the furnished burials of the early Anglo-Saxon period with those of the later centuries perceived as uniform and therefore uninteresting. The last decade has s... .... Learn More -
Anglo-Saxon Somerset [Paperback]
Michael Costen (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781842179888
Published by : Oxbow Books
The county of Somerset cannot lay claim to have been an Anglo-Saxon kingdom like Kent or Sussex, but nevertheless it has a history as a distinct region which can be traced to the seventh century and there are hints of an earlier entity in the ... .... Learn More -
Rudiments of Runelore [Paperback]
Stephen Pollington (Author)
£5.95ISBN: 9781898281498
Published by : Anglo-Saxon Books
This little volume provides a useful introduction and guide to the ancient runes of the Germanic peoples. It discusses the origins and meaning of all the known runes, and includes text and translations of rune poems and riddles from England, N... .... Learn More -
Anglo-Saxon England [Paperback]
Martin Welch (Author)
£15.99ISBN: 9780713465662
Published by : Chrysalis Books
Despite the title this book is about the first three centuries of Anglo-Saxon England, up to about AD 700. It begins with an account of buildings and settlements for which there is so much new evidence, and this leads on to the rural economy an... .... Learn More -
Alfred's Metres of Boethius [Paperback]
Bill Griffiths (Author)
£14.95ISBN: 9781898281030
Published by : Anglo-Saxon Books
In these poems, King Alfred re-built the Latin verses from Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae (`On the Consolation of Philosophy') into new alliterative poems, via an Old English prose intermediary. The stirring images and stories of Boeth... .... Learn More -
Monasteriales Indicia: The Anglo-Saxon Sign Language [Paperback]
Debby Banham (Author)
£6.95ISBN: 9780951620946
Published by : Anglo-Saxon Books
This is one of the very few texts which let us see how life was really lived in monasteries in the early Middle Ages. Written in Old English and preserved in a manuscript of the mid-eleventh century, it consists of 127 signs used by Anglo-Saxon... .... Learn More