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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Saxons"”.
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A Medieval tale: Saxons, Normans and the telscombe ring
A medieval silver-gilt finger ring was found in July, 2010 using a metal detector near the village of Telscombe, in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. The object, hereto referred to as the Telscombe Ring, was reported and documented per the Treasure Act (1996). In 2012, it was disclaimed …
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“Anglo-Saxons of the East”: Redefining Armenians in Early Twentieth Century America
This thesis focuses on an important work of Armenian American identity––The Armenians in America by M. Vartan Malcom. While previously known as a source of statistical and quantitative information on early Armenian American history, the text also provided a voice to Armenian Americans in an era …
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The Essence of English Identity: Gender's Role in the Stability of the Nation in English Literature, from the Anglo-Saxons to the Victorians
<p>This thesis, using Jungian analysis, investigates how the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, William Shakespeare's Macbeth, and Charles Dickens's David Copperfield reflect the interdependent spheres of gender relationships that affected societal perceptions of English national identity and stability for …
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Divine and supernatural power in Old English and Old Saxon literature.
… through military conquest, the Continental Saxons were more likely than the Anglo-Saxons to downplay Satan's power in favor of representing Jesus' might in opposition to familiar Germanic natural and supernatural forces. In contrast, Old English writings, composed against the backdrop of a …
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Constructing Spiritual Landscapes: Aspects of Centrality and Peripherality in Anglo- Saxon England and Early Medieval Ireland
… was founded both in the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons and factors directly stemming from the conversion. Because of the nature of the conversion, that is, a direct mission from Gregory the Great, the Anglo-Saxons naturally felt a connection to Rome, while at the same time they felt isolated and …
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Riddlehoard,
… categories: objects accessible to the Anglo-Saxons, often because they pertain to the natural world; technological items largely unique to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; and objects that self-consciously reflect on the act of riddling. Riddlehoard explores metaphor as interactive, …
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La représentation des Scandinaves dans la Chronique anglo-saxonne aux 9e et 10e siècles
… au début du 9e siècle, les quatre royaumes anglo-saxons indépendants sont ciblés par les raids scandinaves. Toutefois, dans la lutte contre cette présence étrangère, trois royaumes sont détruits aux mains des Scandinaves, laissant seulement le royaume du Wessex et son roi, Alfred le Grand, à …
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Political Communication Practices of the Transylvanian Saxon Towns, c. 1467–1526
… body of historiography focusing on the Saxons’ legal and socio-economic development in this era, this thesis seeks to demonstrate the significant everyday effort which the Saxon leading strata devoted to pursuing their political objectives and entrenching their privileged legal status. …
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Perceptions of Peoples in Early Medieval Wales
… Armes Prydein Vawr. I compare the origins of the Saxons as presented in the two sources to illustrate the recycling and adaptation of material to suit varying agendas, and place Historia Brittonum’s origin legend of the Britons in a wider context, examining both the sources used in its …
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Borderlands Theory: Producing Border Epistemologies with Gloria Anzaldua
… since they did not share with predominant Anglo-Saxons the same values, culture, religion, traditions and skin color. I argue that the later exploitation, exclusion, marginalization, and racism against Mexican-Americans/Chicanos informed Anzaldua's development of her Borderlands theory that seeks …
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Words for wood: the lexis of trees in Old English poetry
… of wood to the daily lives of the Anglo-Saxons and the familiarity with wood which resulted from this is shown to have extended into the vocabulary and used within the poems to develop ideas and concepts beyond the physical reality of the growing organism or the resource obtained from it. …
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Role of the Indiana township trustee in educational administration, 1895-1959
… protection as well as identification. The Anglo-Saxons carried the mark concept to England and called it tunscipe. In England, tunscipe developed into a geographic and political unit. Tunscipe literally means "the people living within the hedge."Implanted in New England by the first English …
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God's Chosen: The Cults of Virgin Martyrs in Anglo-Saxon England
… the Mediterranean female martyrs held for Anglo-Saxons.</p>
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Diplomatic Solutions: Land Use in Anglo-Saxon Worcestershire
… of Worcester linked all levels of Anglo-Saxons from the bishops and kings mentioned by name in the documents to the ordinary clerics, monks, and layfolk who managed and worked the land in ways that enrich our understanding of their daily lives.</p>
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For conscience's sake: the 1839 emigration of the Saxon Lutherans
… newspapers, their opposition to the Saxons was widely known. In essence, the conflict over religion that they experienced in Saxony followed them to the United States, although it came from within their own immigrant community and not from Americans. This situation was aggravated by …
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Identity in the Dark Age. A Biocultural Analysis of Early Medieval Scotland
… a unified kingdom. The Norse, Scots, and Anglo-Saxons battled for political power. The Saxon and Irish Churches were pressuring for superiority over each other and over local beliefs. Many research areas in bioarchaeology have moved away from the more simplistic processual approach after a …
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The Winchester chronicle
… are recorded the first landing of the Angles and Saxons, the development of the various kingdoms, and the coming of Christianity. Very little mention is riven to the Celtic church, and no mention is eiven to the important synod at Whitby. The reliable information in this section is in …
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Invention? Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Nature of De Gestis Britonum
… Second, it looks at interactions between the Saxons and the Bretons—events corroborated by extant sources—to show how Geoffrey’s account manipulates but does not invent material ex-nihilo. It will also examine some assumptions surrounding details and events, such as Arthur’s invasion of Rome, …
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The Wilderness in Medieval English Literature: Genre, Audience and Society
… countryside for the newly converted Anglo-Saxons. The next chapter asserts that the epic Beowulf employs wilderness settings in order to address Anglo-Saxon anxiety regarding the pagan past of their ancestors on the Continent. The third chapter examines an eclectic group of English …
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