The idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901 : remembering, forgetting, deciphering, and renewing the past

• Autore: Niles John D
• Pubblicazione: [Place of publication not identified], : John Wiley & Sons, 2015; Chichester UK, : John Wiley & Sons Blackwell, 2015; Malden MA
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (446 pages)
• Disciplina: 942.01072
• Soggetto topico: Anglo-Saxons - Historiography - Old English, ca. 450-1100; English philology - History; Regions & Countries - Europe; History & Archaeology; Great Britain
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- 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. ; Chapter 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901 : remembering, forgetting, deciphering, and renewing the past
• ISBN: 1-118-94333-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910131646003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II