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Other authors / contributors: | Woods, J. Douglas.
Pelteret, David Anthony Edgell, 1944-
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ISBN: | 9780889205505 0889205507 1282233246 9781282233249 9786613810984 6613810983 0889201668 9780889201668
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Distributor statement from label mounted on title page. Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-170) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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Summary: | The popular notion that sees the Anglo-Saxon era as "The Dark Ages" perhaps has tended to obscure for many people the creations and strengths of that time. This collection, in examining many aspects of pre-Norman Britain, helps to illuminate how Anglo-Saxon society contributed to the continuity of knowledge between the ancient world and the modern world. But as well, it posits a view of that society in its own distinctive terms to show how it developed as a synthesis of radically different cultures. The Bayeux Tapestry is examined for its underlying political motivations; the study of Old Engli
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Other form: | Print version: Anglo-Saxons, synthesis and achievement. Waterloo, Ont., Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©1985 0889201668
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Publisher's no.: | 402281 CaOOCEL
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