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Trees --- Anglo-Saxons --- Church history --- Symbolism --- Religious aspects --- Religion

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The first interdisciplinary study of settlements and strongholds in early medieval England through their representation in literary and material culture. In recent years numerous advances in archaeological and historical studies have enhanced our understanding of the form and function of settlements and strongholds in the landscapes of early medieval England. Until now, this groundbreaking work has not been matched in studies of early English literature, where no concerted effort has been made to investigate how these findings can inform our understanding of their representation in texts -- and vice versa. This study shows that literary works offer considerable insight into the ways their authors, readers, and other audiences thought and felt about the constructed places and spaces in which they lived their lives. Covering a broad range of evidence from the end of Roman rule to the Norman Conquest, it is the first study of its kind to offer an interdisciplinary account of the relationship between the built environment as it appears in the material record, and in a range of textual productions. Settlements and Strongholds interrogates correlations and disjunctions between the stories found in the soil and in written works of various kinds, focusing on vernacular texts and Latin works that informed their development. It argues for a deeper appreciation of the relationship between imaginative works and the material contexts in which they were created, revealing the parallel development of ideas and concepts that were fundamental in shaping early medieval England.

Nederzettingen --- Civilization [Medieval ] --- Engeland --- Geschiedenis --- Landscape archaeology --- Church history --- Civilization, Medieval --- Archaeology --- Cultural landscapes --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- Christianity --- History --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Great Britain --- England --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales

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This is the first edition of Andreas for 55 years, also the first to present the Anglo-Saxon, or rather Old English, text with a parallel Modern English poetic translation. The book aims not only to provide both students and scholars with an up-to-date text and introduction and notes, but also to reconfirm the canonical merit of Andreas as one of the longest and most important works in Old English literature. The introduction to our text is substantial, re-positioning this poem in respect of nearly six decades' progress in the palaeography, sources and analogues, language, metrics, literary criticism and archaeology of Andreas. The book argues that the poet was Mercian, that he was making ironic reference to Beowulf and that his story of St Andrew converting pagan Mermedonian cannibals was coloured by King Alfred's wars against the Danes (871-9, 885-6, 892-6). Andreas is here dated to Alfred's later reign with such analysis of contexts in history and ideology that the author's name is also hypothesized [Aethelstan, priest of Mercia, died 927]. The Old English text and Modern English translation of Andreas are presented in a split-page format, allowing students at whatever level of familiarity with the Anglo-Saxon vernacular to gain a direct access to the poem in close to its original form. The translation follows the poem's word order and style, allowing modern readers to feel the imagination, ideology and humour of Andreas as closely as possible. The text of the Old English poem is accompanied by a full set of supporting notes, and a glossary representing the translation.

Andreas ap. --- Christian poetry, English (Old) --- Andrew, - Apostle, Saint

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Senses and sensation --- Perception --- Civilization, Medieval --- English philology --- Sens et sensation --- Civilisation médiévale --- Philologie anglaise --- History --- Congresses --- Histoire --- Congrès --- Civilisation médiévale --- Congrès --- Europe --- To 1500 --- Senses and sensation in literature --- Senses and sensation in art --- Sense (Philosophy) --- Civilization [Medieval ]

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Essays on the depiction of animals, birds and insects in early medieval material culture, from texts to carvings to the landscape itself. For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentient creatures that swam, flew, slithered or stalked through the same environments inhabited by their human contemporaries. Others were objects that a modern beholder would be unlikely to think of as living things, but could yet be considered to possess a vitality that rendered them potent. Still others were things half glimpsed on a dark night or seen only in the mind's eye ; strange beasts that haunted dreams and visions or inhabited exotic lands beyond the compass of everyday knowledge.This book discusses the various ways in which the early English and Scandinavians thought about and represented these other inhabitants of their world, and considers the multi-faceted nature of the relationship between people and beasts. Drawing on the evidence of material culture, art, language, literature, place-names and landscapes, the studies presented here reveal a world where the boundaries between humans, animals, monsters and objects were blurred and often permeable, and where to represent the bestial could be to hold a mirror to the self

Animals --- Mythology. --- Great Britain --- England --- Scandinavia --- History --- Civilization --- Civilization.