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The Anglo-Saxon Library

Author : Michael Lapidge
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191533017
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Anglo-Saxon Library written by Michael Lapidge and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cardinal role of Anglo-Saxon libraries in the transmission of classical and patristic literature to the later middle ages has long been recognized, for these libraries sustained the researches of those English scholars whose writings determined the curriculum of medieval schools: Aldhelm, Bede, and Alcuin, to name only the best known. Yet this is the first full-length account of the nature and holdings of Anglo-Saxon libraries from the sixth century to the eleventh. The early chapters discuss libraries in antiquity, notably at Alexandria and republican and imperial Rome, and also the Christian libraries of late antiquity which supplied books to Anglo-Saxon England. Because Anglo-Saxon libraries themselves have almost completely vanished, three classes of evidence need to be combined in order to form a detailed impression of their holdings: surviving inventories, surviving manuscripts, and citations of classical and patristic works by Anglo-Saxon authors themselves. After setting out the problems entailed in using such evidence, the book provides appendices containing editions of all surviving Anglo-Saxon inventories, lists of all Anglo-Saxon manuscripts exported to continental libraries during the eighth century and then all manuscripts re-imported into England in the tenth, as well as a catalogue of all citations of classical and patristic literature by Anglo-Saxon authors. A comprehensive index, arranged alphabetically by author, combines these various classes of evidence so that the reader can see at a glance what books were known where and by whom in Anglo-Saxon England. The book thus provides, within a single volume, a vast amount of information on the books and learning of the schools which determined the course of medieval literary culture.

The Anglo-Saxon Library

Author : Michael Lapidge
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199267227
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Anglo-Saxon Library written by Michael Lapidge and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable study sets out the evidence for the nature and holdings of libraries in Anglo-Saxon England, from the sixth century to the eleventh. It is furnished with appendices which include editions of all surviving Anglo-Saxon book inventories, lists of those manuscripts exported from and imported into Anglo-Saxon England, and a catalogue of all classical and patristic works cited by Anglo-Saxon authors. The volume is concluded by a comprehensive index (combining the evidence of inventories, surviving manuscripts, and citations) of all classical and patristic writings known in England before 1100.

The Anglo-Saxons

Author : Marc Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 164313535X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Anglo-Saxons written by Marc Morris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these people across the next six centuries. It explains how their earliest rulers fought relentlessly against each other for glory and supremacy, and then were almost destroyed by the onslaught of the vikings. It explores how they abandoned their old gods for Christianity, established hundreds of churches and created dazzlingly intricate works of art. It charts the revival of towns and trade, and the origins of a familiar landscape of shires, boroughs and bishoprics. It is a tale of famous figures like King Offa, Alfred the Great and Edward the Confessor, but also features a host of lesser known characters - ambitious queens, revolutionary saints, intolerant monks and grasping nobles. Through their remarkable careers we see how a new society, a new culture and a single unified nation came into being. Drawing on a vast range of original evidence - chronicles, letters, archaeology and artefacts - renowned historian Marc Morris illuminates a period of history that is only dimly understood, separates the truth from the legend, and tells the extraordinary story of how the foundations of England were laid.

Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms

Author : Claire Breay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780712352024
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms written by Claire Breay and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anglo-Saxon period stretches from the arrival of Germanic groups on British shores in the early 5th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066. During these centuries, the English language was used and written down for the first time, pagan populations were converted to Christianity, and the foundations of the kingdom of England were laid. This richly illustrated new book - which accompanies a landmark British Library exhibition - presents Anglo-Saxon England as the home of a highly sophisticated artistic and political culture, deeply connected with its continental neighbours. Leading specialists in early medieval history, literature and culture engage with the unique, original evidence from which we can piece together the story of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, examining outstanding and beautiful objects such as highlights from the Staffordshire hoard and the Sutton Hoo burial. At the heart of the book is the British Library's outstanding collection of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, the richest source of evidence about Old English language and literature, including Beowulf and other poetry; the Lindisfarne Gospels, one of Britain's greatest artistic and religious treasures; the St Cuthbert Gospel, the earliest intact European book; and historical manuscripts such as Bede's Ecclesiastical History and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. These national treasures are discussed alongside other, internationally important literary and historical manuscripts held in major collections in Britain and Europe. This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, chart a fascinating and dynamic period in early medieval history, and will bring to life our understanding of these formative centuries.

Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms

Author : Claire Breay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846828669
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms written by Claire Breay and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manuscripts that were made and used in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms before the Norman conquest of England are treasure troves of art and text. Many of these books and documents were brought together in the British Library exhibition, 'Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: art, word, war.' Together, these manuscripts illuminate extensive intellectual connections as well as widespread scribal and artistic networks that developed within the islands of Britain and Ireland, and further afield across much of early medieval Europe. Using new scientific methods, as well as textual criticism, art historical analysis, and historical research, the essays in this richly illustrated volume, written by leading scholars, present innovative research that focuses on manuscripts that were copied, decorated, or used in the early English kingdoms and their neighbours across a 500-year period from the advent of Christianity among the English, c.600, to the age of conquest in the eleventh century.

Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England

Author : Michael Lapidge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521259029
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England written by Michael Lapidge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An collection of essays by specialists in the field examining Anglo-Saxon learning and text interpretation and transmission.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Author : George Norman Garmonsway
Publisher : Everyman's Classic Library in Paperback
ISBN 13 : 9780460870382
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle written by George Norman Garmonsway and published by Everyman's Classic Library in Paperback. This book was released on 1990 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Heritage Book of Anglo-Saxon England

Author : Martin G. Welch
Publisher : Batsford
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book English Heritage Book of Anglo-Saxon England written by Martin G. Welch and published by Batsford. This book was released on 1992 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grossbritannien/Irland - Siedlung - Holzarchitektur.

Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England

Author : Barbara Yorke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134707258
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England written by Barbara Yorke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England provides a unique survey of the six major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and their royal families, examining the most recent research in this field.

The Wealth of Anglo-Saxon England

Author : Peter Sawyer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191650811
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Wealth of Anglo-Saxon England written by Peter Sawyer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Anglo-Saxons obtain the treasure that tempted Vikings to raid England frequently in the ninth century and again between 980 and 1018? As Britain then had no gold mine and its lead mines yielded very little silver, this treasure must have been imported. Some may have been given, but most was obtained by trade. Until the ninth century the main source was Francia where there was a lively demand for English produce. Cross Channel trade flourished, much of it passing through the major ports, or wics, that developed in the seventh century. The rapid decline of this trade in the ninth century was caused, not by the Vikings, but by a general shortage of new silver in western Europe after c. 850, reflected in the debasement of the Frankish and Anglo-Saxon coinages. Silver was, however, imported to England by the Danes who settled there in the late ninth century. A very important source of new silver was discovered in the 960s in Germany. This led to a rapid expansion of the German economy that created a demand for raw materials and food from England. Very soon England's towns expanded and its trade, internal and external, grew. Its new wealth attracted Vikings, but trade continued and, although they extracted a great deal of silver, new supplies from Germany enabled the English to maintain their currency. Recent studies have shown that it grew to a peak under Edward the Confessor. This confirms the evidence of Domesday Book that on the eve of the Norman Conquest England was a very rich, highly urbanized, kingdom with a large, well-controlled coinage of high quality. This coinage, and Domesday Book itself, are indeed good evidence that English government was then remarkably effective. Peter Sawyer offers an account of the ways wealth was accumulated and the forms it took in Anglo-Saxon England, with emphasis on recent developments in the study of Anglo-Saxon coins and Domesday Book, and some of their surprising results.

The Making of England

Author : Mark Atherton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786721546
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Making of England written by Mark Atherton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the tenth century England began to emerge as a distinct country with an identity that was both part of yet separate from 'Christendom'. The reigns of Athelstan, Edgar and Ethelred witnessed the emergence of many key institutions: the formation of towns on modern street plans; an efficient administration; and a serviceable system of tax. Mark Atherton here shows how the stories, legends, biographies and chronicles of Anglo-Saxon England reflected both this exciting time of innovation as well as the myriad lives, loves and hates of the people who wrote them. He demonstrates, too, that this was a nation coming of age, ahead of its time in its use not of the Book-Latin used elsewhere in Europe, but of a narrative Old English prose devised for law and practical governance of the nation-state, for prayer and preaching, and above all for exploring a rich and daring new literature. This prose was unique, but until now it has been neglected for the poetry. Bringing a volatile age to vivid and muscular life, Atherton argues that it was the vernacular of Alfred the Great, as much as Viking war, that truly forged the nation.

The Kings & Queens of Anglo-Saxon England

Author : Timothy Venning
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445624591
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Kings & Queens of Anglo-Saxon England written by Timothy Venning and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major re-examination of an important period in British history

Women in Anglo-Saxon England

Author : Christine E. Fell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Women in Anglo-Saxon England written by Christine E. Fell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anglo-Saxon Prognostics

Author : R. M. Liuzza
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843842556
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Prognostics written by R. M. Liuzza and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2011 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edition and translation of prognostic guides and calendars, intended as an effort to foretell the future.

The Anglo-Saxon Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Anglo-Saxon Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The covers are reproductions of rare bookbindings. Each volume has "Note on the binding ... By Cyril Davenport."

An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England

Author : Peter Hunter Blair
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521216500
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England written by Peter Hunter Blair and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977-09-08 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a lucid, authoritative and well-balanced account of Anglo-Saxon history. Peter Hunter Blair's book has achieved classic status, and is published now with a new, up-to-date bibliography prepared by Simon Keynes. Between the end of the Roman occupation and the coming of the Normans, England was settled by Germanic races; the kingdom as a political unit was created, heathenism yielded to a vigorous Christian Church, superb works of art were made, and the English language - spoken and written - took its form. These origins of the English heritage are Hunter Blair's subject. The first two chapters survey Anglo-Saxon England: its wars, its invaders, its peoples and its kings. The remaining chapters deal with specific aspects of its culture: its Church, government, economy and literary achievement. Throughout the author uses illustrations and a wide range of sources - documents, archaeological evidence and place names - to illuminate the period as a whole.

The Anglo-Saxon World

Author : Kevin Crossley-Holland
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192835475
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book The Anglo-Saxon World written by Kevin Crossley-Holland and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossley-Holland--the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts--introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and poetry, with many of the greatest surviving poems printed in their entirety.