Anglo-Saxons: Studies Presented to Cyril Roy Hart.1851829326 Anglo-Saxons; studies presented to Cyril Roy Hart. Ed. by Simon Keynes Simon Douglas Keynes MA, PhD, Litt.D, FBA (born 23 September 1952) is the current Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University. He was educated at the Leys School and Trinity College, Cambridge. and Alfred P. Smyth. Four Courts Press 2006 317 pages $85.00 Hardcover CB216 Historians from across England honor Hart, a practicing physician who in his spare time has contributed widely to the history of the Anglo-Saxon period. The 17 essays include discussions of the queen in ninth-century Wessex, fragmented frag·ment n. 1. A small part broken off or detached. 2. An incomplete or isolated portion; a bit: overheard fragments of their conversation; extant fragments of an old manuscript. 3. manors and the customs of the Anglo-Saxons, monetary circulation in the Danelaw 973-1083, new medical texts and ideas in England in the 11th century, and the Bayeux Tapestry Bayeux tapestry. This so-called tapestry is in fact an embroidery that chronicles the Norman conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066. It is a long, narrow strip of coarse linen, 230 ft by 20 in. through Canterbury eyes. Distributed in the US by ISBS ISBS International Society of Biomechanics in Sports ISBS International Society for Biophysics and Imaging of the Skin ISBS Illinois State Button Society ISBS Iowa State Button Society ISBS Idaho State Button Society . ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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