Discenza asserts that
Anglo-Saxons saw all spaces as inhabited but organized their perceptions to attempt mastery or control over them--what emerges is an early medieval textual version of art history's horror vacui.
Anglo-Saxons reintroduced Christianity and organised systems of government and law.
On Saturday, Dr David Petts will deliver a talk on the archaeology of
Anglo-Saxon Lindisfarne at 2.30pm at Elvet Riverside, Durham University.
The first is on May 8 when visitors can explore the culture, craftsmanship and writing of the
Anglo-Saxons, who lived from the 5th to 11th centuries.
and the Soviet Union, neither of which had sentimental feelings about the British Empire, let alone the "
Anglo-Saxons."
THE Welsh are more likely to use the language of their old
Anglo-Saxon enemies in everyday conversations than the English.
"Radio carbon dating demonstrates a likely date of around 780AD, meaning these remains are Christian
Anglo-Saxons. This is the third major cemetery discovered at Norton suggesting that the settlement was an important regional centre in the
Anglo-Saxon period."
In his epic narration of the history of the
Anglo-Saxons, Bueno skips the so-called 'settlement period' (mid-5th to early 7th century) and starts with a section (11-17) on the rise of Mercia during the reigns of Penda (632-655) and AEthelbald (716-757).
The subject of Fabienne Michelet's intelligent and illuminating book is what she calls the 'spatial imaginaire' of the
Anglo-Saxons. She considers not only how this is manifested in
Anglo-Saxon texts, in the spatial representations and geographical descriptions in them, but also how it might have been formed, through the political and intellectual history of the
Anglo-Saxons themselves.