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Author : Eric Gerald Stanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (646 download)
Download or read book Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past written by Eric Gerald Stanley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Gerald Stanley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 0859915883
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (599 download)
Download or read book Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past written by Eric Gerald Stanley and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2000 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decisive argument on the issues under review by one of the leading Anglo-Saxon scholars.
Author : Marion Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135082545
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Imagining the Pagan Past written by Marion Gibson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain’s pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the scholarly world; often being seen as historically dubious, self-indulgent romance and, worse, encouraging tribal and nationalistic feelings or challenging church and state. This book shows how important these stories are to the history of British culture, taking the reader on a lively tour from prehistory to the present. From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, Marion Gibson explores the ways in which British pagan gods and goddesses have been represented in poetry, novels, plays, chronicles, scientific and scholarly writing. From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney and H.G. Wells to Naomi Mitchison it explores Romano-British, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon deities and fictions. The result is a comprehensive picture of the ways in which writers have peopled the British pagan pantheons throughout history. Imagining the Pagan Past will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of paganism.
Author : Catherine E. Karkov
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781783275199
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Imagining Anglo-Saxon England written by Catherine E. Karkov and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh approach to the construction of "Anglo-Saxon England" and its depiction in art and writing.
Author : Robert Allen Rouse
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843840411
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England in Middle English Romance written by Robert Allen Rouse and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a variety of texts, but the Matter of England romances in particular, the author argues that they show a continued interest in the Anglo-Saxon past, from the localised East Sussex legend of King Alfred that underlies the twelfth-century Proverbs of Alfred, to the institutional interest in the Guy of Warwick narrative exhibited by the community of St Swithun's Priory in Winchester during the fifteenth century; they are part of a continued cultural remembrance that encompasses chronicles, folk memories, and literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Heide Estes
Publisher : Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures
ISBN 13 : 9789089649447
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (494 download)
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes written by Heide Estes and published by Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures. This book was released on 2017 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people's actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating how Anglo-Saxons interacted with and conceived of their lived environments. Examining Old English poems, such as Beowulf and Judith, as well as descriptions of natural events from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and other documentary texts, Heide Estes shows that Anglo-Saxon ideologies that view nature as diametrically opposed to humans, and the natural world as designed for human use, have become deeply embedded in our cultural heritage, language, and more.
Author : John Blair
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691228426
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Building Anglo-Saxon England written by John Blair and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize A radical rethinking of the Anglo-Saxon world that draws on the latest archaeological discoveries This beautifully illustrated book draws on the latest archaeological discoveries to present a radical reappraisal of the Anglo-Saxon built environment and its inhabitants. John Blair, one of the world's leading experts on this transformative era in England's early history, explains the origins of towns, manor houses, and castles in a completely new way, and sheds new light on the important functions of buildings and settlements in shaping people's lives during the age of the Venerable Bede and King Alfred. Building Anglo-Saxon England demonstrates how hundreds of recent excavations enable us to grasp for the first time how regionally diverse the built environment of the Anglo-Saxons truly was. Blair identifies a zone of eastern England with access to the North Sea whose economy, prosperity, and timber buildings had more in common with the Low Countries and Scandinavia than the rest of England. The origins of villages and their field systems emerge with a new clarity, as does the royal administrative organization of the kingdom of Mercia, which dominated central England for two centuries. Featuring a wealth of color illustrations throughout, Building Anglo-Saxon England explores how the natural landscape was modified to accommodate human activity, and how many settlements--secular and religious—were laid out with geometrical precision by specialist surveyors. The book also shows how the Anglo-Saxon love of elegant and intricate decoration is reflected in the construction of the living environment, which in some ways was more sophisticated than it would become after the Norman Conquest.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004408339
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By tapping into the vast reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, the collected studies explore how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons.
Author : Richard Matthew Pollard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110717791X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Imagining the Medieval Afterlife written by Richard Matthew Pollard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, innovative study of how medieval people envisioned heaven, hell, and purgatory - images and imaginings that endure today.
Author : Eric Gerald Stanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism written by Eric Gerald Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine E. Karkov
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843831945
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England written by Catherine E. Karkov and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cross pervaded the whole of Anglo-Saxon culture, in art, in sculpture, in religion, in medicine. These new essays explore its importance and significance.
Author : Samantha Zacher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442666293
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture written by Samantha Zacher and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of Jews in medieval England begin with the year 1066, when Jews first arrived on English soil. Yet the absence of Jews in England before the conquest did not prevent early English authors from writing obsessively about them. Using material from the writings of the Church Fathers, contemporary continental sources, widespread cultural stereotypes, and their own imaginations, their depictions of Jews reflected their own politico-theological experiences. The thirteen essays in Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture examine visual and textual representations of Jews, the translation and interpretation of Scripture, the use of Hebrew words and etymologies, and the treatment of Jewish spaces and landmarks. By studying the “imaginary Jews” of Anglo-Saxon England, they offer new perspectives on the treatment of race, religion, and ethnicity in pre- and post-conquest literature and culture.
Author : Ed West
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1510719911
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book 1066 and Before All That written by Ed West and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting account of the most consequential year in English history, marked by bloody conflict with invaders on all sides. 1066 is the most famous date in history, and with good reason, since no battle in medieval history had such a devastating effect on its losers as the Battle of Hastings, which altered the entire course of English history. The French-speaking Normans were the pre-eminent warriors of the 11th century and based their entire society around conflict. They were led by William 'the Bastard' a formidable, ruthless warrior, who was convinced that his half-Norman cousin, Edward the Confessor, had promised him the throne of England. However, when Edward died in January 1066, Harold Godwinson, the richest earl in the land and the son of a pirate, took the throne . . . . this left William no choice but to forcibly claim what he believed to be his right. What ensued was one of the bloodiest periods of English history, with a body count that might make even George RR Martin balk. Pitched at newcomers to the subject, this book will explain how the disastrous battle changed England—and the English—forever, introducing the medieval world of chivalry, castles and horse-bound knights. It is the first part in the new A Very, Very Short History of England series, which aims to capture the major moments of English history with humor and bite.
Author : Anna Klosowska
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 195019275X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Disturbing Times written by Anna Klosowska and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Kehinde Wiley to W.E.B. Du Bois, from Nubia to Cuba, Willie Doherty's terror in ancient landscapes to the violence of institutional Neo-Gothic, Reagan's AIDS policies to Beowulf fanfiction, this richly diverse volume brings together art historians and literature scholars to articulate a more inclusive, intersectional medieval studies. It will be of interest to students working on the diaspora and migration, white settler colonialism and pogroms, Indigenous studies and decolonial methodology, slavery, genocide, and culturecide. The authors confront the often disturbing legacies of medieval studies and its current failures to own up to those, and also analyze fascist, nationalist, colonialist, anti-Semitic, and other ideologies to which the medieval has been and is yoked, collectively formulating concrete ethical choices and aims for future research and teaching.In the face of rising global fascism and related ideological mobilizations, contemporary and past, and of cultural heritage and history as weapons of symbolic and physical oppression, this volume's chapters on Byzantium, Medieval Nubia, Old English, Hebrew, Old French, Occitan, and American and European medievalisms examine how educational institutions, museums, universities, and individuals are shaped by ethics and various ideologies in research, collecting, and teaching.
Author : Marion Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415674182
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Imagining the Pagan Past written by Marion Gibson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain's pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the scholarly world; often being seen as historically dubious, self-indulgent romance and, worse, encouraging tribal and nationalistic feelings or challenging church and state. This book shows how important these stories are to the history of British culture, taking the reader on a lively tour from prehistory to the present. From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, Marion Gibson explores the ways in which British pagan gods and goddesses have been represented in poetry, novels, plays, chronicles, scientific and scholarly writing. From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney and H.G. Wells to Naomi Mitchison it explores Romano-British, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon deities and fictions. The result is a comprehensive picture of the ways in which writers have peopled the British pagan pantheons throughout history. Imagining the Pagan Past will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of paganism.
Author : Samantha Zacher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442646675
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture written by Samantha Zacher and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirteen essays in Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture examine visual and textual representations of Jews before 1066.
Author : Cynthia Turner Camp
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843844028
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Saints Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England written by Cynthia Turner Camp and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives. The past was ever present in later medieval England, as secular and religious institutions worked to recover (or create) originary narratives that could guarantee, they hoped, their political and spiritual legitimacy. Anglo-SaxonEngland, in particular, was imagined as a spiritual "golden age" and a rich source of precedent, for kings and for the monasteries that housed early English saints' remains. This book examines the vernacular hagiography produced in a monastic context, demonstrating how writers, illuminators, and policy-makers used English saints (including St Edmund) to re-envision the bonds between ancient spiritual purity and contemporary conditions. Treating history and ethical practice as inseparable, poets such as Osbern Bokenham, Henry Bradshaw, and John Lydgate reconfigured England's history through its saints, engaging with contemporary concerns about institutional identity, authority, and ethics. Cynthia Turner Camp is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia.
