Cross and Culture in Anglo Saxon England

Cross and Culture in Anglo Saxon England
Author: Karen Louise Jolly,Catherine E. Karkov,Sarah Larratt Keefer
Publsiher: WV Medieveal European Studies
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: STANFORD:36105123358405

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The Place of the Cross in Anglo Saxon England

The Place of the Cross in Anglo Saxon England
Author: Catherine E. Karkov,Sarah Larratt Keefer,Karen Louise Jolly
Publsiher: Boydell Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1843831945

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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.

Textual and Material Culture in Anglo Saxon England

Textual and Material Culture in Anglo Saxon England
Author: D. G. Scragg
Publsiher: DS Brewer
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 0859917738

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Significant Anglo-Saxon papers, with postscripts, illustrate advances in knowledge of life and culture of pre-Conquest England. Thomas Northcote Toller, of the Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, is one of the most influential but least known Anglo-Saxon scholars of the early twentieth century. The Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies at Manchester, where Toller was the first professor of English Language, has an annual Toller lecture, delivered by an expert in the field of Anglo-Saxon Studies; this volume offers a selection from these lectures, brought together for the firsttime, and with supplementary material added by the authors to bring them up to date. They are complemented by the 2002 Toller Lecture, Peter Baker's study of Toller, commissioned specially for this book; and by new examinations ofToller's life and work, and his influence on the development of Old English lexicography. The volume is therefore both an epitome of the best scholarship in Anglo-Saxon studies of the last decade and a half, and a guide for the modern reader through the major advances in our knowledge of the life and culture of pre-Conquest England. , Contributors: RICHARD BAILEY, PETER BAKER, DABNEY ANDERSON BANKERT, JANET BATELY, GEORGE BROWN, ROBERTA FRANK, HELMUT GNEUSS, JOYCE HILL, DAVID A. HINTON, MICHAEL LAPIDGE, AUDREY MEANEY, KATHERINE O'BRIEN O'KEEFFE, JOANA PROUD, ALEXANDER RUMBLE.

Cross and Culture in Anglo Norman England

Cross and Culture in Anglo Norman England
Author: John Munns
Publsiher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2016
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781783271269

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An examination of the passion and crucifixion of Christ as depicted in the visual and religious culture of Anglo-Norman England.

Sources of Anglo Saxon Culture

Sources of Anglo Saxon Culture
Author: Paul E. Szarmach,Virginia Darrow Oggins
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 478
Release: 1986
Genre: History
ISBN: UOM:39015014212552

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Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo Saxon England

Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo Saxon England
Author: Brandon W. Hawk
Publsiher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781487503055

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Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England is the first examination of Christian apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England, focusing on the use of biblical narratives in Old English sermons. This work demonstrates that apocryphal media are a substantial part of the apparatus of Christian tradition inherited by Anglo-Saxons.

Heaven and Earth in Anglo Saxon England

Heaven and Earth in Anglo Saxon England
Author: Helen Foxhall Forbes
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2016-04-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781317123064

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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.

Money and Power in Anglo Saxon England

Money and Power in Anglo Saxon England
Author: Rory Naismith
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2011-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781139503006

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This groundbreaking study of coinage in early medieval England is the first to take account of the very significant additions to the corpus of southern English coins discovered in recent years and to situate this evidence within the wider historical context of Anglo-Saxon England and its continental neighbours. Its nine chapters integrate historical and numismatic research to explore who made early medieval coinage, who used it and why. The currency emerges as a significant resource accessible across society and, through analysis of its production, circulation and use, the author shows that control over coinage could be a major asset. This control was guided as much by ideology as by economics and embraced several levels of power, from kings down to individual craftsmen. Thematic in approach, this innovative book offers an engaging, wide-ranging account of Anglo-Saxon coinage as a unique and revealing gauge for the interaction of society, economy and government.