Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Early Medieval Europe
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Viking Migration and Settlement in East Anglia: The Place-Name Evidence [Paperback]
David Boulton (Author)
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ISBN: 9781914427251
Published by : Windgather Press
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This book shows how analysis of Scandinavian-influenced place-names in their landscape contexts can provide crucial new evidence of differing processes of Viking migration and settlement in East Anglia between the late ninth and eleventh centuries... .... Learn More -
The Norse Sorceress: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World [Hardback]
Leszek Gardeła (Editor); Sophie Bønding (Editor); Peter Pentz (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789259537
Published by : Oxbow Books
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Old Norse literature abounds with descriptions of magic acts that allow ritual specialists of various kinds to manipulate the world around them, see into the future or the distant past, change weather conditions, influence the outcomes of battles,... .... Learn More -
Bookmarks from the Past: Studies in Early English Language and Literature in Honour of Helmut Gneuss [Hardback]
Lucia Kornexl (Editor); Ursula Lenker (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780820465203
Published by : Peter Lang Verlag
The papers collected in this volume reflect the long and distinguished career of Professor Helmut Gneuss in the fields of Early English language, literature and culture. The volume will thus be of particular interest to researchers in Standard Old... .... Learn More -
An Essential Guide to Celtic Sites and Their Saints [Paperback]
Elizabeth Rees (Author)
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ISBN: 9780860123187
Published by : Continuum International Pub.
Based on archaeological and literary evidence, Elizabeth Rees has compiled a guidebook to 250 sites linked to Celtic saints. By no means comprehensive, since thousasnds of such sites exist, this book provides `a taster' of the monasteries, herm... .... Learn More -
Heimskringla: An Interpretation [Hardback]
Birgit Sawyer (Author)
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ISBN: 9780866985383
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
After brief summaries of early Norwegian history, Snorri Sturluson's career, and previous studies of Heimskringla, the core of this book is a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the text. It is normally treated as a collection of sagas about No... .... Learn More -
Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England [Hardback]
Catherine Karkov (Editor); Nicholas Howe (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780866983631
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England is a collection of ten essays by acknowledged experts in the field of Anglo-Saxon studies. Papers range in scope from the conversion of the English to Christianity, to the expansion of Anglo-Saxon... .... Learn More -
Anglo-Saxons and the North [Hardback]
Matti Kilipio (Editor); Leena Kahlas-Tarkka (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780866984126
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
Anglo-Saxons and the North is a wide-ranging collection of essays by acknowledged experts in the field of Anglo-Saxon studies. In his reassessment of the Rök Stone, Harris reveals close links between Scandinavia and Western Europe, and Frisia in p... .... Learn More -
Aelfric of Eynsham: His Life Times and Writings [Paperback]
Helmut Gneuss (Author)
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ISBN: 9781580441445
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
This little book, originally delivered as a lecture, forms an introduction to Aelfric of Eynsham, described by the author as "the first, and for a long time the only, master of prose written in English". Gneuss discusses Aelfric's works and their ... .... Learn More -
Be a Perfect Man: Christian Masculinity and the Carolingian Aristocracy [Hardback]
Andrew J. Romig (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812249248
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Series: The Middle Ages Series
The life of an aristocratic Carolingian man involved an array of behaviors and duties associated with his gender and rank: an education in arms and letters; training in horsemanship, soldiery, and hunting; betrothal, marriage, and the virile produ... .... Learn More -
Myth and History: Ethnicity & Politics in the First Millennium British Isles [Paperback]
Stephen James Yeates (Author)
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ISBN: 9781842174784
Published by : Oxbow Books
Our recent understanding of British history has been slowly unravelling thanks to new techniques such as DNA analysis, new archaeological data and reassessment of the literary evidence. There are considerable problems in understanding the early h... .... Learn More
