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Author | : Catherine E. Karkov |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1843836289 |
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Providing a fresh appraisal of the art of Anglo-Saxon England, this text looks at its influence upon the creation of an identity as a nation.
Author | : Leslie Webster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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The seven centuries of the Anglo-Saxon period in England, roughly AD 400-1100, were a time of extraordinary and profound transformation in almost every aspect of its culture, culminating in a dramatic shift from a barbarian society to a recognizably medieval civilization. This book traces the changing nature of that art, the different roles it played in Anglo-Saxon culture, and the various ways it both reflected and influenced the changing context in which it was created.
Author | : Marion Archibald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Claire Breay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Anglo-Saxons |
ISBN | : 9780712352024 |
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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.
Author | : Marion Archibald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Marc Morris |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2021-05-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 164313535X |
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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.
Author | : Catherine E. Karkov |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781843831945 |
Download The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Colum Hourihane |
Publisher | : Index of Christian Art Department of Art and Archeology Princeton |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art, Anglo-Saxon |
ISBN | : 9780983753704 |
Download Insular & Anglo-Saxon Art and Thought in the Early Medieval Period Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An interdisciplinary collection of essays examining Irish and Anglo-Saxon art in the early medieval period.
Author | : Tom Lambert |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019878631X |
Download Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The only modern book-length account of Anglo-Saxon legal culture and practice, from the pre-Christian laws of Æthelberht of Kent (c. 600) up to the Norman conquest of 1066, charting the development of kings' involvement in law, in terms both of their authority to legislate and their ability to influence local practice.
Author | : Catherine E. Karkov |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9781843830597 |
Download The Ruler Portraits of Anglo-Saxon England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The author argues that this series of portraits, never before studied as a corpus, creates a visual genealogy equivalent to the textual genealogies and regnal lists that are so much a feature of late Anglo-Saxon culture. As such they are an important part of the way in which the kings and queens of early medieval England created both their history and their kingdom."--BOOK JACKET.