LEADER 06421oam 2200613zu 450 001 9911019360203321 005 20251116141813.0 010 $a1-118-94333-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000459378 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001534245 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12591310 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001534245 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11493667 035 $a(PQKB)11228509 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6648318 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6648318 035 $a(OCoLC)1259594486 035 $a(BIP)58584257 035 $a(BIP)49709532 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000459378 100 $a20160829d2015 uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901 : remembering, forgetting, deciphering, and renewing the past 210 31$a[Place of publication not identified]$cJohn Wiley & Sons$d2015 210 1$aChichester UK$cJohn Wiley & Sons Blackwell$d2015 210 1$aMalden MA 215 $a1 online resource (446 pages) 225 0 $aWiley Blackwell Manifestos The idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a1-118-94332-5 327 $aCover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Vignettes -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 The Impact of the Norman Conquest -- Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxonism -- Norman Anglo-Saxonism -- English Ethnicity in 1066 and Beyond -- The Laws and the Saints -- Twelfth-Century Textuality and the Demise of Old English Verse -- Geoffrey's King Arthur and a New Myth of Origins -- The New Historiography: William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon -- 'The Matter of England' in Middle English Literature -- Cataclysm and Recovery at the Close of the Middle Ages -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Notes to Vignette 2 -- Notes to Vignette 3 -- Notes to Vignette 4 -- Chapter 2 The Discovery of Anglo-Saxon England in Tudor Times -- The Dissolution and its Effects -- Archbishop Parker and Anglican Polemics -- Parker's Circle of Scholars: John Joscelyn and Laurence Nowell -- The First Old English Printed Texts -- A Testimonie of Antiquitie (1566) -- The Gospels of the Fower Evangelistes (1571) -- APXAIONOMIA (1568) -- Ælfredi Regis Res Gestae (1574) -- Conclusion: Some Shaky First Steps -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Notes to Vignette 5 -- Chapter 3 British Antiquaries and the Anglo?Saxon Past -- The Antiquarian Impulse in Early Modern Britain -- Camden versus Verstegan: Two Contrasting Views -- Robert Cotton, Henry Spelman, and Others -- Puritan Anglo-Saxonism: Milton's History of Britain -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Note to Vignette 6 -- Notes to Vignette 7 -- Chapter 4 The Founding of a Discipline 1600-1700 -- L'Isle's Saxon Treatise (1623) -- Wheelock's Bede (1643-44) -- Franciscus Junius and his Cædmon (1655) -- The Professionalization of Old English Studies: Somner and Hickes -- Other Oxford Publications 1665-98 -- Conclusion: Some Precarious Progress -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Notes to Vignette 8 -- Notes to Vignette 9. 327 $aChapter 5 A Period of Consolidation 1700-1800 -- Hickes, Wanley, and the Thesaurus -- Elizabeth Elstob, Anglo-Saxonist and Proto-feminist -- Scholarly and Popular Impulses in the Later Eighteenth Century -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Notes to Vignette 10 -- Chapter 6 The Romantics and the Discovery of Old English Verse -- A Capsule Account of Old English Verse -- Warton, Turner, Ellis, and the Vogue of the Bard -- The Conybeares and the Invention of Old English Verse -- A Fiasco in Denmark -- N.F.S. Grundtvig and the First 'New European' Literature -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Notes to Vignette 11 -- Chapter 7 The Triumph of Philology -- Benjamin Thorpe and the Anglo-Saxon Textual Records -- John Mitchell Kemble, 'the Anglo-Saxon Meteor' -- Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Saxon Studies after Kemble -- Notes to Chapter 7 -- Notes to Vignette 12 -- Chapter 8 Old English Studies in North America -- Thomas Jefferson and the Republic of Old English -- Longfellow's Literary Synthesis -- Lewis F. Klipstein and American Racial Anglo-Saxonism -- Old English in North American Universities -- Notes to Chapter 8 -- Notes to Vignette 13 -- Chapter 9 Anglo-Saxon England and the Empire -- The Anglo-Saxon, Visual History, and the Mission of 'the Race' -- The Cult of King Alfred the Great -- Poetry and the Empire -- Maldon, Beowulf, and Nineteenth-Century Criticism -- History, Popular Literature, Law, and Archaeology -- Conclusion to the Chapter -- Notes to Chapter 9 -- Notes to Vignette 14 -- Notes to Vignette 15 -- Afterword -- Note to Afterword -- Some Landmark Publications -- Works Cited -- Index -- EULA. 330 $a The Idea of Anglo Saxon England, 1066-1901 presents the first systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies have evolved from their beginnings to the twentieth century Tells the story of how the idea of Anglo-Saxon England evolved from the Anglo-Saxons themselves to the Victorians, serving as a myth of origins for the English people, their language, and some of their most cherished institutions Combines original research with established scholarship to reveal how current conceptions of English identity might be very different if it were not for the discovery - and invention - of the Anglo-Saxon past Reveals how documents dating from the Anglo-Saxon era have greatly influenced modern attitudes toward nationhood, race, religious practice, and constitutional liberties Includes more than fifty images of manuscripts, early printed books, paintings, sculptures, and major historians of the era 606 $aAnglo-Saxons$xHistoriography$yOld English, ca. 450-1100 606 $aEnglish philology$xHistory 606 $aRegions & Countries - Europe$2HILCC 606 $aHistory & Archaeology$2HILCC 606 $aGreat Britain$2HILCC 615 0$aAnglo-Saxons$xHistoriography 615 0$aEnglish philology$xHistory. 615 7$aRegions & Countries - Europe 615 7$aHistory & Archaeology 615 7$aGreat Britain 676 $a942.01072 700 $aNiles$b John D$0443563 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911019360203321 996 $aThe idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901 : remembering, forgetting, deciphering, and renewing the past$94418634 997 $aUNINA