The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England write by Rebecca Brackmann. This book was released on 2012. The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The writings of two influential Elizabethan thinkers testify to the influence of Old English law and literature on Tudor society and self-image. Full of fresh and illuminating insights into a way of looking at the English past in the sixteenth century... a book with the potential to deepen and transform our understanding of Tudor attitudes to ethnic identity and the national past. Philip Schwyzer, University of Exeter. Laurence Nowell (1530-c.1570), author of the first dictionary of Old English, and William Lambarde (1536-1601), Nowell's protégé and eventually the first editor of theOld English Laws, are key figures in Elizabethan historical discourses and in its political and literary society; through their work the period between the Germanic migrations and the Norman Conquest came to be regarded as a foundational time for Elizabethan England, overlapping with and contributing to contemporary debates on the shape of Elizabethan English language. Their studies took different strategies in demonstrating the role of early medieval history in Elizabethan national -- even imperial -- identity, while in Lambarde's legal writings Old English law codes become identical with the "ancient laws" that underpinned contemporary common law. Their efforts contradict the assumption that Anglo-Saxon studies did not effectively participate in Tudor nationalism outside of Protestant polemic; instead, it was a vital part of making history "English". Their work furthers our understanding of both the history of medieval studies and the importance of early Anglo-Saxon studies to Tudor nationalism. Rebecca Brackmann is Assistant Professor of English, Lincoln Memorial University.
The Old English Penitentials and Anglo-Saxon Law
The Old English Penitentials and Anglo-Saxon Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Old English Penitentials and Anglo-Saxon Law write by Stefan Jurasinski. This book was released on 2015-05-19. The Old English Penitentials and Anglo-Saxon Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book-length study of the four penitentials composed in Old English. This book argues that they are also important to our understanding of how written law developed in early England. This book considers their backgrounds and shows how they illuminate obscure passages in better-known Old English texts.
The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901
The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901 write by John D. Niles. This book was released on 2015-07-29. The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Idea of Anglo Saxon England, 1066-1901 presents the first systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies have evolved from their beginnings to the twentieth century Tells the story of how the idea of Anglo-Saxon England evolved from the Anglo-Saxons themselves to the Victorians, serving as a myth of origins for the English people, their language, and some of their most cherished institutions Combines original research with established scholarship to reveal how current conceptions of English identity might be very different if it were not for the discovery – and invention – of the Anglo-Saxon past Reveals how documents dating from the Anglo-Saxon era have greatly influenced modern attitudes toward nationhood, race, religious practice, and constitutional liberties Includes more than fifty images of manuscripts, early printed books, paintings, sculptures, and major historians of the era
Poetry and British Nationalisms in the Bardic Eighteenth Century
Poetry and British Nationalisms in the Bardic Eighteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetry and British Nationalisms in the Bardic Eighteenth Century write by Jeff Strabone. This book was released on 2018-10-26. Poetry and British Nationalisms in the Bardic Eighteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a radical new theory of the role of poetry in the rise of cultural nationalism. With equal attention to England, Scotland, and Wales, the book takes an Archipelagic approach to the study of poetics, print media, and medievalism in the rise of British Romanticism. It tells the story of how poets and antiquarian editors in the British nations rediscovered forgotten archaic poetic texts and repurposed them as the foundation of a new concept of the nation, now imagined as a primarily cultural formation. It also draws on legal and ecclesiastical history in drawing a sharp contrast between early modern and Romantic antiquarianisms. Equally a work of literary criticism and history, the book offers provocative new theorizations of nationalism and Romanticism and new readings of major British poets, including Allan Ramsay, Thomas Gray, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England
Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England write by Brandon Hawk. This book was released on 2018-06-26. Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England is the first in-depth study of Christian apocrypha focusing specifically on the use of extra-biblical narratives in Old English sermons. The work contributes to our understanding of both the prevalence and importance of apocrypha in vernacular preaching, by assessing various preaching texts from Continental and Anglo-Saxon Latin homiliaries, as well as vernacular collections like the Vercelli Book, the Blickling Book, Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies, and other manuscripts from the tenth through twelfth centuries. Vernacular sermons were part of a media ecology that included Old English poetry, legal documents, liturgical materials, and visual arts. Situating Old English preaching within this network establishes the range of contexts, purposes, and uses of apocrypha for diverse groups in Anglo-Saxon society: cloistered religious, secular clergy, and laity, including both men and women. Apocryphal narratives did not merely survive on the margins of culture, but thrived at the heart of mainstream Anglo-Saxon Christianity.
