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Sharon Turner (24 September 1768 – 13 February 1847) was an English historian. [1] Life. Turner Was born in Pentonville, the eldest son of William and Ann Turner of Yorkshire, who had settled in London upon marrying. [2] . He left school at fifteen to be articled to an attorney in the Temple.
The History of the Anglo-Saxons is a three volume publication by English historian Sharon Turner written between 1799 and 1805. It covers the history of England up to the Norman conquest.
9 de jun. de 2014 · This essay, inflected by the psychoanalytic research of Abraham and Torok and the sociopolitical implications of their work on transgenerational haunting, examines Sharon Turner’s History of the Anglo-Saxons as a crypt into which the unmourned losses and unacknowledged traumas of British colonialism are deposited.
- Donna Beth Ellard
- 2014
In his preface to the second volume of The History of the Anglo-Saxons, Sharon Turner makes his most impassioned and poetic defence of Anglo-Saxon studies. He chides the polite ‘philosopher’ who prefers ‘the metaphysical speculations of the easy chair’ to the ‘drudgery of research’ into Anglo-Saxon history and culture.
Krákumál was Turner’s poetic inspi- ration while writing a history that entwines the arrival of the Vikings with the rise of Alfred. In From the Death of Egbert, Turner explains that the Viking hero Ragnar Lodbrog, on an ill-fated adventure to Northumbria, is captured by King Ella and.
Sharon Turner has 257 books on Goodreads with 134 ratings. Sharon Turner’s most popular book is The History of the Anglo-Saxons, from the Earliest Period...
15 de mar. de 2018 · Bibliographic information. Sharon Turner (1768-1847) practised as a solicitor in London, specialising in the law of copyright, but devoted his free time to studying Anglo-Saxon literature and...
