Author: Thomas Kerslake
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752403098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Vestiges of the Supremacy of Mercia in the South of England, During the Eighth... by Thomas Kerslake
Vestiges of the Supremacy of Mercia in the South of England, During the Eighth...
Author: Thomas Kerslake
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752403098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Vestiges of the Supremacy of Mercia in the South of England, During the Eighth... by Thomas Kerslake
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752403098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Vestiges of the Supremacy of Mercia in the South of England, During the Eighth... by Thomas Kerslake
Vestiges of the supremacy of Mercia in the south of England during the eighth century
Author: T. Kerslake
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Presenting an incredible history of Mercia, one of the three notable Anglic kingdoms founded after Sub-Roman Britain. It was inhabited by Anglo-Saxons in an era called the Heptarchy. The writer followed the traces of the kingdom's supremacy during the 8th century providing many insightful observations. He uncovered multiple undiscovered facts about the region and the famous personalities, giving details on their cultural practices, thoughts, way of life, etc. In addition, various events that shaped the history of England are described here.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Presenting an incredible history of Mercia, one of the three notable Anglic kingdoms founded after Sub-Roman Britain. It was inhabited by Anglo-Saxons in an era called the Heptarchy. The writer followed the traces of the kingdom's supremacy during the 8th century providing many insightful observations. He uncovered multiple undiscovered facts about the region and the famous personalities, giving details on their cultural practices, thoughts, way of life, etc. In addition, various events that shaped the history of England are described here.
Vestiges of the supremacy of Mercia in the South of England, during the eighth century
Author: Kerslake Thomas
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 1171778023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 1171778023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Citadel of the Saxons
Author: Rory Naismith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786724863
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
With a past as deep and sinewy as the famous River Thames that twists like an eel around the jutting peninsula of Mudchute and the Isle of Dogs, London is one of the world's greatest and most resilient cities. Born beside the sludge and the silt of the meandering waterway that has always been its lifeblood, it has weathered invasion, flood, abandonment, fire and bombing. The modern story of London is well known. Much has been written about the later history of this megalopolis which, like a seductive dark star, has drawn incomers perpetually into its orbit. Yet, as Rory Naismith reveals – in his zesty evocation of the nascent medieval city – much less has been said about how close it came to earlier obliteration. Following the collapse of Roman civilization in fifth-century Britannia, darkness fell over the former province. Villas crumbled to ruin; vital commodities became scarce; cities decayed; and Londinium, the capital, was all but abandoned. Yet despite its demise as a living city, memories of its greatness endured like the moss and bindweed which now ensnared its toppled columns and pilasters. By the 600s a new settlement, Lundenwic, was established on the banks of the River Thames by enterprising traders who braved the North Sea in their precarious small boats. The history of the city's phoenix-like resurrection, as it was transformed from an empty shell into a court of kings – and favoured setting for church councils from across the land – is still virtually unknown. The author here vividly evokes the forgotten Lundenwic and the later fortress on the Thames – Lundenburgh – of desperate Anglo-Saxon defenders who retreated inside their Roman walls to stand fast against menacing Viking incursions. Recalling the lost cities which laid the foundations of today's great capital, this book tells the stirring story of how dead Londinium was reborn, against the odds, as a bulwark against the Danes and a pivotal English citadel. It recounts how Anglo-Saxon London survived to become the most important town in England – and a vital stronghold in later campaigns against the Normans in 1066. Revealing the remarkable extent to which London was at the centre of things, from the very beginning, this volume at last gives the vibrant early medieval city its due.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786724863
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
With a past as deep and sinewy as the famous River Thames that twists like an eel around the jutting peninsula of Mudchute and the Isle of Dogs, London is one of the world's greatest and most resilient cities. Born beside the sludge and the silt of the meandering waterway that has always been its lifeblood, it has weathered invasion, flood, abandonment, fire and bombing. The modern story of London is well known. Much has been written about the later history of this megalopolis which, like a seductive dark star, has drawn incomers perpetually into its orbit. Yet, as Rory Naismith reveals – in his zesty evocation of the nascent medieval city – much less has been said about how close it came to earlier obliteration. Following the collapse of Roman civilization in fifth-century Britannia, darkness fell over the former province. Villas crumbled to ruin; vital commodities became scarce; cities decayed; and Londinium, the capital, was all but abandoned. Yet despite its demise as a living city, memories of its greatness endured like the moss and bindweed which now ensnared its toppled columns and pilasters. By the 600s a new settlement, Lundenwic, was established on the banks of the River Thames by enterprising traders who braved the North Sea in their precarious small boats. The history of the city's phoenix-like resurrection, as it was transformed from an empty shell into a court of kings – and favoured setting for church councils from across the land – is still virtually unknown. The author here vividly evokes the forgotten Lundenwic and the later fortress on the Thames – Lundenburgh – of desperate Anglo-Saxon defenders who retreated inside their Roman walls to stand fast against menacing Viking incursions. Recalling the lost cities which laid the foundations of today's great capital, this book tells the stirring story of how dead Londinium was reborn, against the odds, as a bulwark against the Danes and a pivotal English citadel. It recounts how Anglo-Saxon London survived to become the most important town in England – and a vital stronghold in later campaigns against the Normans in 1066. Revealing the remarkable extent to which London was at the centre of things, from the very beginning, this volume at last gives the vibrant early medieval city its due.
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385506514
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1878.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385506514
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1878.
A Subject Index of Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1880-[95]: Works added to the library ... 1880-1885
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Vestiges of the Supremacy of Mercia in the South of England, During the Eighth Century
Author: Thomas Kerslake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mercia (Kingdom)
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mercia (Kingdom)
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: The Hagiography of the Female Saints of Ely
Author: Rosalind C. Love
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191513407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Goscelin, monk of Saint-Bertin, who came to England in the early 1060s, was one of the most prolific hagiographers of the Anglo-Saxon saints. William of Malmesbury described him as 'second to none since Bede in the celebration of the English saints'. Part of his career was spent in wandering exile, and one of the places Goscelin stayed briefly was Ely, who twelfth-century house-history portrays him working late at night on verses commemorating Ely's patroness, St Æthelfryth. By the late tenth century, the cult of Æthelfryth, the seventh-century virgin-queen whose two unconsummated marriages were recounted in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, had been combined with that of her sister Seaxburh, and of another supposed sister, Wihtburh (whose relics were 'translated' from East Dereham in Norfolk to Ely in 974). To this group were added Seaxburh's daughter Eormenhild, and Eormenhild's daughter Wærburh. A collection of the Lives of these female saints - some probably the work of Goscelin - is preserved in three twelfth-century Ely manuscripts.Taken together these texts offer a fascinating insight into Ely's view of the women venerated by the community and of its own past history.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191513407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Goscelin, monk of Saint-Bertin, who came to England in the early 1060s, was one of the most prolific hagiographers of the Anglo-Saxon saints. William of Malmesbury described him as 'second to none since Bede in the celebration of the English saints'. Part of his career was spent in wandering exile, and one of the places Goscelin stayed briefly was Ely, who twelfth-century house-history portrays him working late at night on verses commemorating Ely's patroness, St Æthelfryth. By the late tenth century, the cult of Æthelfryth, the seventh-century virgin-queen whose two unconsummated marriages were recounted in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, had been combined with that of her sister Seaxburh, and of another supposed sister, Wihtburh (whose relics were 'translated' from East Dereham in Norfolk to Ely in 974). To this group were added Seaxburh's daughter Eormenhild, and Eormenhild's daughter Wærburh. A collection of the Lives of these female saints - some probably the work of Goscelin - is preserved in three twelfth-century Ely manuscripts.Taken together these texts offer a fascinating insight into Ely's view of the women venerated by the community and of its own past history.
Bibliotheca Cornubiensis
Catalogue of the Guildhall Library of the City of London
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description