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Pages: 280
Authors: N. J. Higham
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Alan Sutton Publishing

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Perhaps the best-known fact of English history is the Norman Conquest of 1066, which dispossessed the Anglo-Saxon royal house, marginalized English cultural val
Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England
Language: en
Pages: 250
Authors: Victoria Thompson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Boydell Press

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Study of late Anglo-Saxon texts and grave monuments illuminates contemporary attitudes towards dying and the dead. Pre-Conquest attitudes towards the dying and
Bloodfeud
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Richard Fletcher
Categories: Anglo-Saxons
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-09 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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On a gusty March day in 1016, Earl Uhtred of Northumbria, the most powerful lord in northern England, arrived at a place called Wiheal, probably near Tadcaster
Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-12-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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How did the Anglo-Saxons conceptualize the interim between death and Doomsday? In this 2001 book, Ananya Jahanara Kabir presents an investigation into the Anglo
Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England
Language: en
Pages: 494
Authors: Michael Lapidge
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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An collection of essays by specialists in the field examining Anglo-Saxon learning and text interpretation and transmission.