| Description | | - Expert coverage of the centuries from the end of Roman rule up to the advent of the Vikings.
- Includes chapters on the development of artistic and textual cultures as well as on the nations and kingdoms of the British Isles.
- The first scholarly account of the period to take Britain and Ireland as a whole, allowing for a richer and more satisfying account of the religious, intellectual, and artistic developments and cross-fertilizations that took place.
- Each chapter written by a leading individual scholar, ensuring mature, reliable, and expert analysis of each area covered.
| The period from the departure of the Romans through to the coming of the Vikings saw the gradual conversion of the peoples of the British Isles to Christianity and (with the exception of Ireland) the redrawing of the ethnic and political map of the islands. The chapters in this volume, each written by a leading scholar of the period, analyse in turn the different nationalities and kingdoms that
existed in the British Isles during this period, the process of their conversion to Christianity, the development of art and of a written culture, and the interaction between this written culture and the societies of the day.
The first scholarly account to move away from the pattern of histories constructed on the basis of later nation states, this volume takes Britain and Ireland as a
whole, so as to understand them better as they were at the time and avoid anachronistic divisions from a later era. It is an approach that allows the volume to give greater weight to the important religious, intellectual, and artistic developments and interactions of the period, which normally crossed national boundaries.
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Readership: Undergraduates History students studying the Britain in the Dark Ages and the general reader interested in British history between the fifth and the ninth centuries. Also useful background reading for those doing medieval options on Art History degrees or medieval literature / Anglo-Saxon options on English degrees.
| Contents |
Introduction
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Thomas Charles-Edwards
1.
Nations and Kingdoms
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Thomas Charles-Edwards
2.
Society, Community, and Identity
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John Hines
3.
Conversion to Christianity
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Thomas Charles-Edwards
4.
The Art of Authority
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Jennifer O'Reilly
5.
Latin and the Vernacular Languages: the Creation of a Bilingual Textual Culture
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Andy Orchard
6.
Texts and Society
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Robin Chapman Stacey
Conclusion
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Thomas Charles-Edwards
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Thomas Charles-Edwards, Jesus College, Oxford University
General Editor: Paul Langford
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