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Histories and pseudo-histories of the insular Middle Ages
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ISBN: 0860782646 9780860782643 Year: 1990 Volume: 316 Publisher: Aldershot: Variorum,

Antiquaries : the discovery of the past in eighteenth-century Britain
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ISBN: 1852853093 9781852853099 Year: 2004 Publisher: London: Hambledon and London,

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Eighteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of interest in its own past, a past now expanded to include more than classical history and high politics. Antiquaries, men interested in all aspects of the past, added a distinctive new dimension to literature in Georgian Britain in their attempts to reconstruct and recover the past. Corresponding and publishing in an extended network, antiquaries worked at preserving and investigating records and physical remains in England, Scotland and Ireland. In doing so they laid solid foundations for all future study in British prehistory, archaeology and numismatics, and for local and national history as a while. Naturally, they saw the past partly in their own image. While many antiquaries were better at fieldwork and recording than at synthesis, most were neither crabbed eccentrics nor dilettanti. At their best, as in the works of Richard Gough or William Stukeley, antiquaries set new standards of accuracy and perception in fields ranging from the study of ancient Britons to that of medieval architecture.

Glamorous sorcery : magic and literacy in the High Middle Ages
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ISBN: 0816635463 0816635471 081669141X 9780816635467 9780816635474 Year: 2000 Volume: 25 Publisher: Minneapolis (Minn.): University of Minnesota press,

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