remembering, forgetting, deciphering, and renewing the past /
John D. Niles
xvii, 425 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Wiley Blackwell manifestos
Includes bibliographical references and index
The impact of the Norman conquest -- The discovery of Anglo-Saxon England in Tudor times -- British antiquaries and the Anglo-Saxon past -- The founding of a discipline 1600-1700 -- A period of consolidation 1700-1800 -- The Romantics and the discovery of Old English verse -- The triumph of philology -- Old English studies in North America -- Anglo-Saxon England and the empire
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Idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901
9781118943342
Anglo-Saxons-- Historiography
English philology-- Old English, ca. 450-1100-- History
Great Britain, History, Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066, Historiography