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Author | : Peter Hunter Blair |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393003611 |
The special aim of this series is to provide serious and yet challenging books, not buried under a mountain of detail. Each volume is intended to provide a picture and an appreciation of its age, as well as a lucid outline, written by an expert who is keen to make available and alive the findings of modern research.
Author | : Peter Hunter Blair |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : Peter Hunter Blair |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 1977-09-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521216500 |
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.
Author | : Howard Hayes Scullard |
Publisher | : W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780500274057 |
Combining classical scholarship with recent archeological discoveries, Scullard recreates what life was like in Roman Britain, detailing merchants' activities, the mixing of pagan and Christian religions, and the emergence of the city.
Author | : Peter Salway |
Publisher | : Oxford Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2001-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780192801388 |
'One could not ask for a more meticulous or scholarly assessment of what Britain meant to the Romans, or Rome to Britons, than Peter Salway's Monumental Study' Frederick Raphael, Sunday Times From the invasions of Julius Caesar to the unexpected end of Roman rule in the early fifth century AD and the subsequent collapse of society in Britain, this book is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of Roman Britain ever published for the general reader. Peter Salway's narrative takes into account the latest research including exciting discoveries of recent years, and will be welcomed by anyone interested in Roman Britain.
Author | : Alf J. Mapp |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2014-08-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1590773780 |
King Alfred. Everybody knows that he is called “the Great,” but few remember why. Forgetfulness is strange, for few men have led lives so full of physical, mental, and spiritual adventure, or influenced in so many ways the lives of people in every part of the globe. The Golden Dragon is his fascinating and moving story, told afresh with the aid of recent archaeological evidence and research in four languages. Alfred’s achievements have melted cynicism. Gibbon called him “the greatest of English kings”; Hume, “the greatest man in history.” Voltaire declared, “I know not whether there has ever been a man on earth worthier of posterity’s respect.” When his kingdom was reduced to thirty acres, he fought back with such courage and genius that he expelled the Viking invaders and made possible the saving of Western civilization. His list of accomplishments is amazing: transcendent diplomat, Europe’s greatest naval designer, notable architect, law giver, founder of the oldest literary tradition in the Occident, originator of a system of public education, and producer of translations that have endured a thousand years. The author’s research led him to the conclusion that the ninth-century English kin was the superior of Charlemagne in almost every respect, and indeed was one of the greatest geniuses Western civilization has ever produced. Alfred’s courage, faith, and temperance are enduring examples for modern men.
Author | : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2014-05-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786476842 |
This book proposes that Jews were present in England in substantial numbers from the Roman Conquest forward. Indeed, there has never been a time during which a large Jewish-descended, and later Muslim-descended, population has been absent from England. Contrary to popular history, the Jewish population was not expelled from England in 1290, but rather adopted the public face of Christianity, while continuing to practice Judaism in secret. Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Muslims held the highest offices in the land, including service as archbishops, dukes, earls, kings and queens. Among those proposed to be of Jewish ancestry are the Tudor kings and queens, Queen Elizabeth I, William the Conqueror, and Thomas Cromwell. Documentaton in support of this revisionist history includes DNA studies, genealogies, church records, place names and the Domesday Book.
Author | : Frank M. Stenton |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 2031 |
Release | : 1970-02-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019150128X |
Discussing the development of English society, from the growth of royal power to the establishment of feudalism after the Norman Conquest, this book focuses on the emergence of the earliest English kingdoms and the Anglo-Norman monarchy in 1087. It also describes the chief phases in the history of the Anglo-Saxon church, drawing on many diverse examples; the result is a fascinating insight into this period of English history.
Author | : Edward J. Rielly |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2012-08-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0786466677 |
This is a collection of new essays on Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma novels, which feature Sister Fidelma's attempts to solve a wide range of crimes, often murders that occur under especially mysterious conditions. The novels, set mainly in 7th century Ireland, also include a great deal of history, which is not surprising given that the author is actually Peter Berresford Ellis, a noted Celtic historian. Some of the essays analyze aspects of the novels, focusing especially on the protagonist and her partner in detection and, ultimately, husband, Brother Eadulf. Other essays place Fidelma and the novels within the tradition of detective fiction. Still others explore the historical, intellectual, spiritual and geographical contexts for her labors. Also included are accounts of the author's career, the International Sister Fidelma Society, and the biennial Sister Fidelma conferences held in Cashel, Ireland.
Author | : Barbara L. Talcroft |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780810829824 |
Talcroft explores Sutcliff's use of sacred themes through twelve of her most famous novels.