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The making of England : a new history of the Anglo-Saxon world /
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 eff...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.,
2017.
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| Colección: | Library of medieval studies ;
v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Helmet and crown
- Part I: Mapping a journey through the Anglo-Saxon world
- 'The Italian journey'
- 'On the road'
- Interlude I: The charter bounds of Alveston and Tiddington
- Part II: The reign of King Alfred
- Literacy and the use of English: Alfred's reforms
- The rule of government: 'The craft of all crafts'
- The importance of Bede
- Interlude II: The dedication to the king in the preface to the Old English Bede
- Part III: The expansion of Wessex
- The reign of Edward the Elder
- The lessons of history: 'Edwardian' literature
- Interlude III: 'When the sun most brightly shines', from the Old English Metres of Boethius
- Part IV: War, poetry, and book-collecting
- 'King Æthelstan the Pious, famed throughout the wide world'
- The 'Great War' and medieval memory
- 'Prophet in his own country': The early life of St Dunstan
- 'By skill must love be guided': The school of Glastonbury
- Interlude IV: A passage from 'St Dunstan's classbook'
- Part V: Building the nation
- The reign of King Edred: Dealing with the Northumbrians, the queen mother, and the archbishop
- Politics, monasteries and the rise of Bishop Æthelwold
- Lawsuits, law-books and sermons: Archbishop Dunstan and King Edgar
- Winchester, chief city of Edgar's England
- Interlude V: The poem The Coronation of Edgar.