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Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2002
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2002

In studies ranging from Norman Sicily to Scandinavia, six focus on aspects of Scottish history. Papers discuss authenticity and forgery, royal and aristocratic values, the history of William the Conqueror and the Marshal earls. Contemporary historians' perceptions of the Jews and Byzantium complete the roll call.

The Anglo-Saxon Chancery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

The Anglo-Saxon Chancery

An exploration of Anglo-Saxon charters, bringing out their complexity and highlighting a range of broad implications.

Cathedrals, Communities and Conflict in the Anglo-Norman World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Cathedrals, Communities and Conflict in the Anglo-Norman World

The true importance of cathedrals during the Anglo-Norman period is here brought out, through an examination of the most important aspects of their history. Cathedrals dominated the ecclesiastical (and physical) landscape of the British Isles and Normandy in the middle ages; yet, in comparison with the history of monasteries, theirs has received significantly less attention. This volume helps to redress the balance by examining major themes in their development between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. These include the composition, life, corporate identity and memory of cathedral communities; the relationships, sometimes supportive, sometimes conflicting, that they had with kings (e.g....

Colville National Forest/ Idaho Panhandle National Forest (N.F), Douglas Fir Beetle Project
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 468
Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895-1960
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895-1960

In Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895-1960, Dr. St. Pierre examines strategies of representing British music hall performance (1854-1919) and the performance of the body in British cinema in the silent era (1895-1927) and the sound era (1927-60). The focus is on films of Fred and Joe Evans, Frank Randle, Will Hay, George Formby, Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane, Cicely Courtneidge, Jessie Matthews, Norman Evans, Max Miller, Stanley Holloway, Jack Warner, Gracie Fields, and Charles Chaplin. Consideration is given to themes such as war propaganda and gender impersonation.

Wealth and the Material World in the Old English Alfredian Corpus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 223

Wealth and the Material World in the Old English Alfredian Corpus

A new, materialistic reading of the Alfredian corpus, drawing on diverse approaches from thing theory to Augustinian principles of use and enjoyment to uncover how these works explore the material world. The Old English prose translations traditionally attributed to Alfred the Great (versions of Gregory's Regula pastoralis, Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae, Augustine's Soliloquia and the first fifty Psalms) urge detachment from the material world; but despite this, its flotsam and jetsam, from costly treasures to everyday objects, abound within them. This book reads these original and inventive translations from a materialist perspective, drawing on approaches as diverse as thing theor...

History of Anson County, North Carolina, 1750-1976
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 472

History of Anson County, North Carolina, 1750-1976

About a third of Mr. Gold's account deals with the general history of the county, with the balance devoted to the Civil War. The author provides an overview of the various troop movements throughout the county during the war, such as those under the command of Confederate General Jubal Early. The bulk of the volume examines the roles of Clarke County natives in the conflict.

Æthelred
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Æthelred

divAn imaginative reassessment of Æthelred "the Unready," one of medieval England’s most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred "the Unready" (978–1016) has

Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 407

Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages

This revealing study explores how people at all social levels, whether laity or clergy, needed, used and kept documents.