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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 1 (Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 1) by Peter Clemoes; Martin Biddle; Julian Brown; René Derolez; Helmut Gneuss; Stanley Greenfield; Lars-Gunnar Hallander; Peter Hunter Blair; John Leyerle; Paul Meyvaert is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The contents of this first volume typify the range of interests that will be covered throughout the series. The topics treated include the first two centuries of Christianity in East Anglia; geographical knowledge in King Alfred's court; the part played by Bishop 'thelwold's school at Winchester in the period of tenth-century monastic reform in standardizing the vernacular and in studying and composing Latin poetry; allegory in Old English literature; the place of origin of the Book of Kells; the source of a fourteenth-century Icelandic saga writer's picture of Edward the Confessor; the principles of the modern study of pre-Conquest architecture; and the contemporary state of our knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon house. There is also a bibliography which lists all books, articles and reviews published in the field during 1971, and which is continued annually in the series. Book Description The contents of this first volume typify the range of interests that will be covered throughout the series. The topics treated include the first two centuries of Christianity in East Anglia; geographical knowledge in King Alfred's court and the contemporary state of our knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon h

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Author
Peter Clemoes; Martin Biddle; Julian Brown; René Derolez; Helmut Gneuss; Stanley Greenfield; Lars-Gunnar Hallander; Peter Hunter Blair; John Leyerle; Paul Meyvaert
Publisher
Cambridge University Press : [distributor] Cambridge University Press : [distributor] Cambridge University Press : [distributor] Cambridge University Press : [distributor] Cambridge University Press (South Africa) : [distributor] Cambridge University Press
Published
2008
Language
EN
ISBN
9780521038386
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, European History, Humanities

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