wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Anglo-Saxon Myths: State and Church, 400-1066
ISBN: 9781852851545 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this collection of essays Nicholas Brooks explores some of the earliest and most problematical sources, both written and archaeological, for early English history. In his hands, the structure and functions of Anglo-Saxon origin stories and charters (whether authentic or forged) illuminate English political and social structures, as well as ecclesiastical, urban and rural landscapes. As well as previously published essays, Anglo-Saxon Myths: State and Church, 400-1066 includes a new account of the English origin myth and a review of the developments in the study of Anglo-Saxon... In this collection of essays Nicholas Brooks explores some of the earliest and most problematical sources, both written and archaeological, for ear... |
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982,80 zł |
Aldhelm and Sherborne: Essays to Celebrate the Founding of the Bishopric [With CD (Audio)]
ISBN: 9781842173572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collection of papers follows on from a conference, held in Sherborne in June 2005, marking the thirteen-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the bishopric by Aldhelm of Malmesbury. This volume looks at the work of Aldhelm and the foundation of the see of Sherborne in the wider context of his career and his world.
At the Sherborne symposium, Katherine Barker commissioned a performance of Aldhelm's Carmen rhythmicum by a rune-singer and an instrumentalist. The large audience at Sherborne were transfixed by the experience of listening, with the text and a translation before... This collection of papers follows on from a conference, held in Sherborne in June 2005, marking the thirteen-hundredth anniversary of the founding of ...
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196,56 zł |
Domitianus
ISBN: 9781546997238 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Once the Emperor of Rome, he was murdered by his subordinates - only to find himself alive and lost in a world he once knew so well. This is the story of one man's journey from man to monster; from sanity to sadism. His immortality will take him from ancient Rome to the forgotten Atlantis, while the entrails of his enemies pave the way
Once the Emperor of Rome, he was murdered by his subordinates - only to find himself alive and lost in a world he once knew so well. This is the story...
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72,81 zł |
The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past
ISBN: 9781472428172 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Scholars have long been interested in the extent to which the Anglo-Saxon past can be understood using material written, and produced, in the twelfth century; and simultaneously in the continued importance (or otherwise) of the Anglo-Saxon past in the generations following the Norman Conquest of England. In order to better understand these issues, this volume provides a series of essays that moves scholarship forward in two significant ways. Firstly, it scrutinises how the Anglo-Saxon past continued to be reused and recycled throughout the longue duree of the twelfth century, as opposed to...
Scholars have long been interested in the extent to which the Anglo-Saxon past can be understood using material written, and produced, in the twelfth ...
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752,12 zł |
St. Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence
ISBN: 9780718500030 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. St Oswald was the youngest of the three great monastic reformers of tenth-century England, whose work transformed English religious, intellectual and political life. Certainly a more attractive and perhaps a more effective figure than either St Dunstan or St Ethelwold, Oswald's impact upon his cathedrals at Worcester and York and upon his West Midland and East Anglian monasteries was radical and lasting. In this volume, researchers throw light on St Oswald's background, career, influence and cult and on the society that he helped to shape. His cathedral at Worcester and his monastery at...
St Oswald was the youngest of the three great monastic reformers of tenth-century England, whose work transformed English religious, intellectual and ...
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1037,40 zł |