Myth Rulership Church And Charters

Author : Andrew Wareham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351916068
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters written by Andrew Wareham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than forty years Nicholas Brooks has been at the forefront of research into early medieval Britain. In order to honour the achievements of one of the leading figures in Anglo-Saxon studies, this volume brings together essays by an internationally renowned group of scholars on four themes that the honorand has made his own: myths, rulership, church and charters. Myth and rulership are addressed in articles on the early history of Wessex, Æthelflæd of Mercia and the battle of Brunanburh; contributions concerned with charters explore the means for locating those hitherto lost, the use of charters in the study of place-names, their role as instruments of agricultural improvement, and the reasons for the decline in their output immediately after the Norman Conquest. Nicholas Brooks's long-standing interest in the church of Canterbury is reflected in articles on the Kentish minster of Reculver, which became a dependency of the church of Canterbury, on the role of early tenth-century archbishops in developing coronation ritual, and on the presentation of Archbishop Dunstan as a prophet. Other contributions provide case studies of saints' cults with regional and international dimensions, examining a mass for St Birinus and dedications to St Clement, while several contributions take a wider perspective, looking at later interpretations of the Anglo-Saxon past, both in the Anglo-Norman and more modern periods. This stimulating and wide-ranging collection will be welcomed by the many readers who have benefited from Nicholas Brooks's own work, or who have an interest in the Anglo-Saxon past more generally. It is an outstanding contribution to early medieval studies.

Author : Alexander R. Rumble
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843839288
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edgar, King of the English, 959-975 written by Alexander R. Rumble and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh assessments of Edgar's reign, reappraising key elements using documentary, coin, and pictorial evidence.

Author : Malcolm Godden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521194067
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 38 written by Malcolm Godden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-Saxon England was the first publication to consistently embrace all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and which promotes the more unusual interests - in music or medicine or education, for example. Articles in volume 38 include: The Passio Andreae and The Dream of the Rood by Thomas D. Hill, Beowulf off the Map by Alfred Hiatt, Numerical Composition and Beowulf: A Re-consideration by Yvette Kisor, 'The Landed Endowment of the Anglo-Saxon Minster at Hanbury (Worcs.) by Steven Bassett, Scapegoating the Secular Clergy: The Hermeneutic Style as a Form of Monastic Self-Definition by Rebecca Stephenson, Understanding Numbers in MS London, British Library Harley by Daniel Anlezark, Tudor Antiquaries and the Vita 'dwardi Regis by Henry Summerso and Earl Godwine's Ship by Simon Keynes and Rosalind Love. A comprehensive bibliography concludes the volume, listing publications on Anglo-Saxon England during 2008.

Author : John Frankis
Publisher : Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
ISBN 13 : 0907570275
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Old English to Old Norse written by John Frankis and published by Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature. This book was released on 2016-01-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focusses upon the Old Norse version of Ælfric's Old English homily De falsis diis - the most substantial of a family of Old Norse-Icelandic texts, of unclear provenance, but which derive in varying degrees from Old English originals. To throw fresh light upon the translation's origins, a range of other Old Norse and Old English texts are considered. While the known facts of Ælfrician manuscript circulation and adaptation are hard to reconcile with an Icelandic origin, traces of later circulation in Norway and Iceland are explored. The study includes a parallel-text Old English-Old Norse edition of De falsis diis, with facing modern English translations, to aid detailed comparison.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004432337
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Languages of Early Medieval Charters written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major study of the interplay between Latin and Germanic vernaculars in early medieval records, examining the role of language choice in the documentary cultures of the Anglo-Saxon and eastern Frankish worlds.

Author : Helen Foxhall Forbes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317123069
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England written by Helen Foxhall Forbes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence. This is the first full-length study investigating how Christian theology and religious beliefs permeated society and underpinned social values in early medieval England. The influence of the early medieval Church as an institution is widely acknowledged, but Christian theology itself is generally considered to have been accessible only to a small educated elite. This book shows that theology had a much greater and more significant impact than has been recognised. An examination of theology in its social context, and how it was bound up with local authorities and powers, reveals a much more subtle interpretation of secular processes, and shows how theological debate affected the ways that religious and lay individuals lived and died. This was not a one-way flow, however: this book also examines how social and cultural practices and interests affected the development of theology in Anglo-Saxon England, and how ’popular’ belief interacted with literary and academic traditions. Through case-studies, this book explores how theological debate and discussion affected the personal perspectives of Christian Anglo-Saxons, including where possible those who could not read. In all of these, it is clear that theology was not detached from society or from the experiences of lay people, but formed an essential constituent part.

Author : Mark Atherton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786731541
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( 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 352 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.

Author : Annie Whitehead
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445676532
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mercia written by Annie Whitehead and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary history of Mercia and its rulers from the seventh century to 1066. Once the supreme Anglo-Saxon kingdom, it was pivotal in the story of England.

Author : Alison Hudson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783276851
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bishop Æthelwold, His Followers, and Saints' Cults in Early Medieval England written by Alison Hudson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how Æthelwold and those he influenced deployed the promotion of saints to implement religious reform.

Author : John F. Szabo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442251565
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bayeux Tapestry written by John F. Szabo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 1780 entries, Szabo and Kuefler offer the largest and most heavily annotated bibliography on the Tapestry ever written.