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Hace 1 día · De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae ( Latin: On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain, sometimes just On the Ruin of Britain) is a work written in Latin by the probably 6th-century AD British cleric St Gildas. It is a sermon in three parts condemning the acts of Gildas' contemporaries, both secular and religious, whom he blames for the dire state of ...
Hace 3 días · Heathenry, also termed Heathenism, contemporary Germanic Paganism, or Germanic Neopaganism, is a modern Pagan religion. Scholars of religious studies classify it as a new religious movement . Developed in Europe during the early 20th century, its practitioners model it on the pre-Christian religions adhered to by the Germanic peoples of the ...
Hace 1 día · Odin (/ ˈ oʊ d ɪ n /; from Old Norse: Óðinn) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology , the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet , and depicts him as ...
Hace 1 día · The cornerstone of North’s theory is an apparent coincidence of names: that, at the end of Beowulf, old King Beowulf is killed by a fiery dragon, but before he expires he manages to consign his kingdom to a young kinsman named Wiglaf. North begins with the fact that, in 825, a king of Mercia named Beornwulf was killed in battle with the East ...
Hace 17 horas · Peter Sawyer is one of our most distinguished Anglo-Saxon or, perhaps better, Anglo-Scandinavian historians. His annotated list of Anglo-Saxon charters, now revised by Susan Kelly, available online and happily known as ‘the electronic Sawyer’, remains a standard work of reference whilst his publications on the Vikings in both Scandinavia and Western Europe have substantially added to our ...
Hace 4 días · Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England. Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer, 2007, ISBN: 9781843832836; 264pp.; Price: £50.00. Bishops, in theory the central figures in the Anglo-Saxon Church, have received polarized, and sometimes unbalanced, treatment from its historians. Reacting against the assumption—drawn uncritically from universal ...
Hace 3 días · the history of the Anglo-Saxon invasions and settlement of England (survey) Participants will gain understanding of: the relationship between Old and Modern English; the diversity of Old English dialects; genres, subjects, traditions and conventions of Old English literature (in translation) sources of our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon ...
