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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"anglo-saxons"”.
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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
… 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 over a …
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Constructing Spiritual Landscapes: Aspects of Centrality and Peripherality in Anglo- Saxon England and Early Medieval Ireland
Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical identity is firmly rooted in the isolation of Britain from the Continent, but especially from Rome. In order to demonstrate this, many Anglo-Saxon texts will be examined, among these are Bede's writings, Stephen of Ripon's Life of Wilfrid, and several others. This …
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Riddlehoard,
… into three 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 …
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La représentation des Scandinaves dans la Chronique anglo-saxonne aux 9e et 10e siècles
En 865, la Chronique anglo-saxonne souligne l’arrivée d’une « grande armée païenne ». Cette armée, en provenance de la Scandinavie, cherche à s’établir de manière permanente au sein de la société anglo-saxonne, qui, à cette époque, est caractérisée par une pluralité identitaire et politique. En …
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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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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 …
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Words for wood: the lexis of trees in Old English poetry
… The importance 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 …
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Role of the Indiana township trustee in educational administration, 1895-1959
… for 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
<p>At the center of Anglo-Saxon life was a thriving religious culture, which—in one of its most vibrant forms—was expressed in the cult of saints. The virgin martyr became one of the most popular forms of sanctity, yet with hundreds of possible martyrs who could have been venerated, the question …
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Diplomatic Solutions: Land Use in Anglo-Saxon Worcestershire
… men is control of one of the wealthiest sees in Anglo-Saxon England, used charters to acquire land, obtain rights and privileges for their existing estates, and manage trade within limits imposed by the king. Rights associated with bookland, land held by charter, gave bishops and their agents the …
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Identity in the Dark Age. A Biocultural Analysis of Early Medieval Scotland
… as 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 Wilderness in Medieval English Literature: Genre, Audience and Society
… in the literature of the time period from the Anglo-Saxon conversion to the close of the Middle Ages. Using environmental history to identify the moments of slippage between fact and fiction, this project examines the ideology behind the representations of the wilderness in literature and the …
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THE ROLE OF ROYAL POWER IN THE FORMATION OF AN ANGLO-SAXON STATE, CIRCA 400-900 AD
This thesis explores the formation of a state in Anglo-Saxon England from the period of Roman withdrawal from Britain in the early fifth century to the tenth century. It argues that the key factor in the development of the state was the increase in the power of kings during the period. While early …
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Anglo-Saxon Poetics in the Linguarum Veterum Septentrionalium Thesaurus Grammatico-Criticus et Archaelogicus of George Hickes: A Translation, Analysis, and Contextualization
… volume represented a major step forward in Anglo-Saxon studies. This study translates the most monumental chapter of the Thesaurus, Chapter 23. Although this chapter \u2015On the Poetic Art of the Anglo-Saxons,\u2016 represents the first sustained attempt to apply a critical and theoretical …
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The Voice of Evil: A Narratological Study of Demonic Characters in Old English Literature
… maybe they represented the fears of the Anglo-Saxons; or, it could be that these characters allowed the poets to express what would otherwise be inexpressable, unfathomable, or unpopular. In any case, it is clear that the Devil and demons reflect the religious concerns of the Anglo-Saxon …
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Death, writing, and remembrance in Anglo-Saxon England
The Anglo-Saxon conversion to Christianity was as much a revolution in literacy as it was in religion. I argue that within this new textual culture, the Anglo-Saxons exploited writing’s aura of permanence to counter the social, spiritual, and physical oblivion of death. By using writing both to …
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Theorizing prayer in Anglo-Saxon England: Bede and Ælfric
I argue that Anglo-Saxon prayer was inflected by Germanic assumptions about gift-giving and lordship and that prayer, in turn, shaped the Anglo-Saxons’ perception of the self and its relation with the community. Modern studies of early prayer tend to focus on forms of devotion that replicate modern …
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Remembering the revolution: monuments and commemorations of American Revolutionary war sites in New York
… narratives defined exclusively by elite, white, Anglo-Saxons while suggesting that non-dominant ethnicities only engaged in the construction of heritage within the last few decades. My research demonstrates how heritage narratives are transformed by numerous stakeholders. This research is …
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