The idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901 : remembering, forgetting, deciphering, and renewing the past /

• Main Author: Niles, John D. (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, Blackwell, 2015.
• Series: Wiley-Blackwell manifestos.
• Subjects: 449-1100; Anglo-Saxons > Historiography.; English philology > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History.; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; English philology > Old English.; Historiography.; Great Britain > History > Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 > Historiography.; Great Britain.; Electronic books.; History.

The Idea of Anglo Saxon England, 1066-1901 presents the first systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies have evolved from their beginnings to the twentieth century Tells the story of how the idea of Anglo-Saxon England evolved from the Anglo-Saxons themselves to the Victorians, serv...

Table of Contents:

• The impact of the Norman conquest
• The discovery of Anglo-Saxon England in Tudor times
• British antiquaries and the Anglo-Saxon past
• The founding of a discipline 1600-1700
• A period of consolidation 1700-1800
• The Romantics and the discovery of Old English verse
• The triumph of philology
• Old English studies in North America
• Anglo-Saxon England and the empire.