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The Making of England - 9781784530051
Un libro in lingua di Mark Atherton edito da Tauris Academic Studies, 2017
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During the tenth century England began to emerge as a distinct country with an identity that was both part of yet separate from ‘Christendom’. The reigns of Athelstan, Edgar and Ethelred witnessed the emergence of many key institutions: the formation of towns on modern street plans; an efficient administration; and a serviceable system of tax. Mark Atherton here shows how the stories, legends, biographies and chronicles of Anglo-Saxon England reflected both this exciting time of innovation as well as the myriad lives, loves and hates of the people who wrote them. He demonstrates, too, that this was a nation coming of age, ahead of its time in its use not of the Book-Latin used elsewhere in Europe, but of a narrative Old English prose devised for law and practical governance of the nation-state, for prayer and preaching, and above all for exploring a rich and daring new literature. This prose was unique, but until now it has been neglected for the poetry. Bringing a volatile age to vivid and muscular life, Atherton argues that it was the vernacular of Alfred the Great, as much as Viking war, that truly forged the nation.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Making of England
- Sottotitolo: A New History of the Anglo-saxon World
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Mark Atherton
- Editore: Tauris Academic Studies
- Collana: Tauris Academic Studies (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 30 Marzo '17
- Genere: HISTORY
- Pagine: 340
- Dimensioni mm: 222 x 139 x 0
- ISBN-10: 1784530050
- EAN-13: 9781784530051