Anglo-Saxonism and the idea of Englishness in eighteenth-century Britain / Dustin M. Frazier Wood.
The importance of the Anglo-Saxon past to England in the eighteenth century, politically and culturally, is here brought out.
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| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY :
Boydell Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Medievalism (Series) ;
v. 18. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Anglo-Saxonism, Medievalism and the Eighteenth Century
- 1. Anglo-Saxonisms of the Early Eighteenth Century
- Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Later Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
- Anglo-Saxonism and the Hanoverian Succession
- From Philology to Antiquarianism
- 2. Antiquaries and Anglo-Saxons
- Antiquarian Networks and Resources for Anglo-Saxon Studies
- Coins
- Artefacts
- Barrows
- Architecture
- Antiquarianism and Medievalism
- 3. Anglo-Saxon History and the English Landscape
- Histories of England
- Antiquarian Historiography
- Local History
- History, Identity and Heritage
- 4. Imaging and Imagining Anglo-Saxonness
- Antiquarian Images of Anglo-Saxon England
- Illustrating English History
- English History Delineated
- Anglo-Saxons and History Painting
- The Ancestral Portrait Gallery
- 5. Anglo-Saxonist Politics and Posterity
- Anglo-Saxonism and Gothicism
- The Anglo-Saxon Constitution
- The Legislature
- The Common Law
- Staging the Anglo-Saxon Nation
- Anglo-Saxonism and Political Identity
- Conclusion: Sharon Turner's The History of the Anglo-Saxons.