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Author Brooks, Nicholas

Title Anglo-Saxon myths : state and church, 400-1066 / Nicholas Brooks
Published London ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 308 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents History and myth, forgery and truth -- Introduction to 'the making of England' -- The creation and early structure of the kingdom of Kent -- The formation of the Mercian Kingdom -- The English origin myth -- The ecclesiastical topography of early Medieval Canterbury -- The cathedral community at Canterbury, 597-1070 -- The career of St. Dunstan -- Anglo-Saxon charters : a review of work, 1953-73 : with a postscript on the period 1973-98 -- A new charter of King Edgar -- The Micheldever forgery -- Romney Marsh in the early Middle Ages
Summary 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 charters over
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Church and state -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY.
Church and state
Politics and government
Mythevorming.
Kerk en staat.
Angelsaksen.
Aufsatzsammlung
Church and state -- Great Britain -- History -- 449-1066.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 449-1066. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056870
Great Britain -- Church history -- 449-1066. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056611
Subject Great Britain
England
Great Britain -- Church history -- 449-1066.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 449-1066.
Genre/Form Church history
History
Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 99058288
ISBN 9780826457929
0826457924
9781472598431
1472598431
1282024663
9781282024663
9786612024665
6612024666