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Jacob's Ladder
In a village outside Cambridge are grouped the normal complement of people: Hal the doctor; Beth the rector's widow and one of her recalcitrant daughters visiting from London; the country-seeking newcomers George and Adela, a couple soon realised to be at odds with each other, Adela quickly earning the dislike she seems to deserve. The successful playwright Francis and his wife Griselda have settled here, hoping for rural quiet; likewise some university dons, Isidore and Candida the widow of his best friend, who spend much time on pondering ladders to truth or heaven and the obdurate imperfection of humankind: and Edmund their friend, who faces a disaster he perhaps brought upon himself. The...
An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England
This is a lucid, authoritative and well-balanced account of Anglo-Saxon history. The third edition includes an introduction by Simon Keynes. Between the end of the Roman occupation and the coming of the Normans, England was settled by Germanic races; the kingdom as a political unit was created, heathenism yielded to a vigorous Christian Church, superb works of art were made, and the English language - spoken and written - took its form. These origins of the English heritage are Hunter Blair's subject. The first two chapters survey Anglo-Saxon England: its wars, its invaders, its peoples and its kings. The remaining chapters deal with specific aspects of its culture: its Church, government, economy and literary achievement. Throughout the author uses illustrations and a wide range of sources - documents, archaeological evidence and place names - to illuminate the period as a whole. For this edition, Simon Keynes has prepared a thoroughly updated bibliography.
A Thorough Seaman
Horatio Nelson is one of Britain's great heroes and his later life is well documented. Pauline Hunter Blair offers us a rare chance to explore his early years -through research and reconstruction. Before Horatio Nelson was 18, he had sailed towards all points of the compass: as captain's servant, coxswain of the captain's gig, able-bodied, foretop man, and midshipman.
The Nelson Boy
Hunter Blair offers us a rare chance to explore Nelson's childhood -- through painstaking research and imaginative but plausible reconstruction. The scene is set in Burnham Thorpe, North Norfolk where the rector, Edmund Nelson and his wife Catherine, become the parents of 8 children. Six well-authenticated anecdotes put milestones across Horace's childhood and boyhood: losing himself at Hilborough; riding to school through deep snow; finding a 'rare' bird's nest; picking a sprig of yew from the churchyard tree at dead of night; catching the measles at school at North Walsham; where he also, chiefly for his friends, stripped the master's pear-tree and never owned up. (Was this one reason why ...
The World of Bede
An engaging and accessible introduction to the writings and intellectual development of the Venerable Bede (d.735), this book (originally published in 1970) is available again for the enjoyment of all those interested in the early medieval world. With an updated preface and supplementary bibliography by Michael Lapidge, the book is based almost entirely on primary sources, particularly Bede's own writings. The book surveys the fragmented state of Britain after the Anglo-Saxon conquests, tracing the - sometimes faltering - rebirth of Christianity from the time of St. Augustine through to the glories of the golden age of Northumbria in the eighth century. What was Bede's contribution to the growth of scholarship? Why is his famous Ecclesiastical History of the English Church and People still so highly regarded? How did Bede see his own age? What traditions most influenced him? Peter Hunter Blair answers all these questions, assessing Bede sympatheticaly in all the fields in which he was active, as teacher, orthographer, moral philospher, grammarian, theologian, natural scientist and, above all, as our first modern historian.
Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England
An collection of essays by specialists in the field examining Anglo-Saxon learning and text interpretation and transmission.
The Lords of Battle
In examining the image of the "comitatus", or war-band, as it is portrayed in literary and historical sources from Britain's early-medieval period, this work attempts to determine the extent to which this image reflects an historical reality.
The Earliest English
The Earliest English provides a student-friendly introduction to Old English and the earliest periods of the history of the English Language as it evolved before 1215. Using non-technical language, the book covers basic terminology, the linguistic and cultural backgrounds to the emergence and development of OE, and the OE vocabulary that students studying this phase of the English language need to know. In eight carefully structured units, the authors show how the vocabulary of Old English contains many items familiar to us today; how its characteristic poetic form is based on a beautiful and intricate simplicity; how its patterns of word building and inflectional structure are paralleled in...
The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past
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 durée of the twelfth century, as opposed to the early decades that are usually covered. Secondly, by bringing together scholars who are experts in...
