Publication

2017 - Oxbow Books, Limited

Language

English

Word Count

36,000 words, Guess

Page Count

144 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101785704974
  • ISBN-139781785704970
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016047731
  • OCLC Control Number957506372
  • Better World Books9781785704970
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCDA152.2.T73 2017
  • LCCDA152.2 .T73 2017

Description

"The five authoritive papers presented here are the product of long careers of research into Anglo-Saxon culture. In detail the subject areas and approaches are very different, yet all are cross-disciplinary and the same texts and artefacts weave through several of them. Literary text is used to interpret both history and art; ecclesiastical-historical circumstances explain the adaptation of usage of a literary text; wealth and religious learning, combined with old and foreign artistic motifs are blended into the making of new books with multiple functions; religio-socio-economic circumstances are the background to changes in burial ritual. The common element is transformation, the Anglo-Saxon ability to rework older material for new times and the necessary adaptation to new circumstances. The papers originated as five recent Toller Memorial Lectures hosted by the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (MANCASS)"--Publisher description.

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Other Editions

  • Transformation in Anglo-Saxon Culture: Toller Lectures on Art, Archaeology and TextOxbow Books, Limited2017-01-01

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