Gildas's De excidio Britonum is a rare surviving contemporary source for the period which saw the beginning of the transformation of post-Roman Britain into Anglo-Saxon England. However, although the De excidio has received much scholarly attention over the last forty years, the value of the text as a primary source for this fascinating if obscure period of British history has been limited by our lack of knowledge concerning its historical and cultural context. In this new study the author challenges the assumption that the British Church was isolated from its Continental counterpart by...

A collection of three chapbooks in one volume by three different authors. The books delve into the mysteries of absence, love, and things past. One book, Sharp Miracle, opens the reader up to the world of the 19th century poet, painter, and model, Elizabeth Siddell. A second book, The Fire Circle, explores the extraordinary in the ordinary and the process of loss. The third book, Letters to my Daughter, is a series of of love letters and elegies with a powerful Southern voice.