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ISBN: 9782503532080
Published by : Brepols
The result of collaboration between English and continental universities, these essays tackle a broad range of questions: What routeways and modes of contact linked England with the Continent? How similar were attitudes to rulership and dynast... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780712358019
Published by : British Library
An exploration of the endless fascination of the Lindisfarne Gospels and of its rich legacy of history, art, palaeography and its close relevance to new archaeological discoveries such as the Prittlewell burial and the Staffordshire hoard. This... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781445601786
Published by : Amberley Publishing
In Geoffrey's Historia Regum, the prophecies of Merlin occupy a prominent place, taking up all of book 7. However Geoffrey also subsequently wrote this less well known piece, a Latin verse Vita Merlini, which draws more closely on the Welsh Mer... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503531618
Published by : Brepols
This book is the first dedicated interdisciplinary study of Bonifaces thirty-three-year mission among the Hessians. The author relates the historical sources to the rich archaeological heritage of the region in order to describe the political a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503528229
Published by : Brepols
Essays on the powerful early medieval kingdom of Northumbria. Where traditional scholarship has centred on the ecclesiastical high culture of the age of Bede, this work examines the kingdoms social and economic life and its origins and decline ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843836285
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Two particular perspectives inform this wide-ranging and richly illustrated survey of the art produced in England, or by English artists, between ca. 600 and ca. 1100, in a variety of media, manuscripts, stone and wooden sculpture, ivory carvin... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780747808367
Published by : Shire Publications
Magnificently illustrated, this is a concise exploration of daily life in earlier Anglo-Saxon England from the end of Rome to the first Viking raids. Drawing in the main on archaeological evidence Sally Crawford looks at the importance of famil... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674053199
Published by : Harvard University Press
The Old English poems in this volume are among the first retellings of scriptural texts in a European vernacular. Three of them survive as sequential epics in a manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. The first, the Old English Genesis, r... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300125351
Published by : Yale University Press
In this nuanced portrait of Athelstan, Sarah Foot offers the first full account of the king ever written. She traces his life through the various spheres in which he lived and worked, beginning with the intimate context of his family, then exte... .... Learn More