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Anglo-Saxons
Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxon A person or language of the English Saxons, distinct from the Old Saxons and the Angles, a group of Germanic peoples who invaded and settled in Britain between the 5th and 7th centuries.
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The Anglo-Saxon Library.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Libraries and the Cultural Record; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; The Anglo-Saxon Library. By Michael Lapidge. New York...110.00. ISBN 0199267227. In The Anglo-Saxon Library Michael Lapidge offers...reconstructs a credible version of the Anglo-Saxon library from these facts testifies to...
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 "Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)")
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Exploring England's Anglo-Saxon Heritage
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR); 9/2/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...is gone. Brownings are as Anglo-Saxon as Anglo-Saxons get. From childhood I was...would be for killing an Anglo-Saxon. BROWNING: Seven times less...vastly less than the richer Anglo-Saxons. And the world over, at least...
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Anglo-Saxon was the olde rocke'n'rolle
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/18/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...unwillingly through their Anglo-Saxon primers, through...warlords. Unlike the Saxons (who pushed the...years. The Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Vikings...the surface, is Anglo-Saxon; so are the origins...without the Anglo- Saxon heritage that informs...maraudings of the ...
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Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...S0009640708001200 Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England. By Mary Frances Giandrea. Anglo-Saxon Studies 7. Woodbridge, U.K...that even if William quickly replaced the Anglo-Saxon episcopacy with Normans--and every Anglo...
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British Christian continuity in Anglo-Saxon England: the case of Sherborne/Lanprobi.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...recent work on early Anglo-Saxon England has been an emerging...162) For example, Anglo-Saxon minsters were often built...as the early Anglo-Saxon period. This means that...use of an older site by Anglo-Saxons might have multiple interpretations...
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Making Thanes: Literature, Rhetoric and State Formation in Anglo-Saxon England.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...attributable to the needs of the emerging Anglo-Saxon state.(2) While the Anglo-Saxons were precocious in their harnessing of vernacular...bureaucratic needs.(3) Historians of Anglo-Saxon England have taught us that these needs were...
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Michael Lapidge, The Anglo-Saxon Library.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; Michael Lapidge, The Anglo-Saxon Library (Oxford: Oxford University...found in the Fontes database. An Anglo-Saxon author might as easily know a work...cite Lapidge's learning. The Anglo-Saxons--such as students leafing through...
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Invasion, settlement or political conquest: changing representations of the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...representations of the Anglo-Saxon arrival as an elite...assimilated with the Anglo-Saxons, adopting their cultural...by which views of the Anglo-Saxon arrival have undergone...narrative histories of the Anglo-Saxons and their arrival in...
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The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England in Middle English Romance.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...few of the authors of the Middle Ages had an interest in the Anglo-Saxon period' ('Introduction--The Anglo Saxons: Fact and Fiction', in Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century, ed...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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The return of the Anglo-Saxons - Grimma capitalists they be, and ylfe and orcneas--elves and ogres too.(some in France seem intent on blaming all bad things on Anglo-Saxonism)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 5/6/2000; 700+ words
; ...because whatever the Anglo-Saxons may have done for poetry...the natural idol of the Anglo-Saxon". But was Walter Bagehot an Anglo-Saxon? Was Adam Smith, come...The restoration of the Anglo-Saxons' hegemony is even odder...
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ANGLO-SAXON
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
ANGLO-SAXON. Originally a name for the Saxons who with the Angles...to the Angles and Saxons, also known as the Old English ( Anglo-Saxon law ) and to their...their overlords as SAXON . Medieval Latin chroniclers used Anglo-Saxones and Angli...both Angles and ...
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Anglo-Saxons
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1962); F. M. Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England (3d ed. 1971); D. M. Wilson, The Anglo-Saxons (rev. ed. 1971); D. J. V. Fisher, The Anglo-Saxon Age, 400-1042 (1973); G...
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Anglo-Saxon
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Anglo-Saxon relating to or denoting the Germanic inhabitants...5th century up to the Norman Conquest. Anglo-Saxon attitudes behaviour regarded as...fanlike from his sides: ‘He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger—and those...
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Anglo-Saxon literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and poetry was written during the Anglo-Saxon period. Of historic as...E. V. K. Dobbie, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records (6 vol., 1932...Anderson, The Literature of the Anglo-Saxons (1949, repr. 1962); S.
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle...monastic chronicles in Anglo-Saxon, all stemming from...of the wars between Saxons and Danes onward...ed., Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel...al., ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle...
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