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HAROLD AND WILLIAM:
The Battle for England, A.D. 1064-1066
By Benton Rain Patterson
Binding: Cloth ISBN: 0-8154-1165-0
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About
This Book
The fundamental event in British history is the Norman Conquest,
when William, Duke of Normandy defeated Harold, Earl of Wessex,
and took over England. In Harold and William, historian Patterson
presents an evenhanded look at the relationship between the
two leaders. Patterson presents the Conquest, and the years
leading up to it, from both the Norman and the Saxon points
of view. He also assess the skills of both-as rulers and as
warriors-and offers a new look at the still-debated politics
of succession in which both men claimed to be rightful heirs
to Edward the Confessor's throne. According to Patterson,
one man was the rightful heir, and the other was the better
choice.
Author Bio
Benton Rain Patterson is an emeritus professor of journalism
at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he lives.
Praise
"This account of one of the most important periods in
English history is carried forward in a lively text, yet advises
when the sources are vague or liable to several interpretations.
Patterson's journalistic skills have produced a very accessible
book that will encourage the interested reader to delve further."
Chris Gravett, Senior Curator, Royal Armouries, HM Tower of
London
"A highly entertaining narrative...
Patterson does an excellent job describing the back-and-forth
struggle of the bloody battle in this highly accessible work
of popular history."
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Building
Customs in Viking Age Denmark
Author: Holger Schmidt
180p., with 73 figs & illus.
Hardback ISBN 877463853
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
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This book is a discursive attempt to reconstruct the appearance
of Viking buildings in Denmark. This is difficult, as the
author makes clear, firstly because there is little archaeological
evidence for the form of the superstructure and, secondly,
because of the wide chronological and geographical variation
in type. Still, the presentation in English of comparative
material from selected settlements and house-sites (both drawings
and descriptions) and the vision presented will form useful
resources for anybody interested in the architectural forms
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North
European Textiles until AD 1000
Author: Lise Bender Jorgensen
285p., 206 figs, maps, photos and illus.
1992
Hardbound ISBN 87 7288 416 9
Publisher: Aarhus University Press |
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This book is firstly an enormous catalogue of all textile finds
from prehistoric, Roman and medieval contexts in Great Britain,
Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Scandinavia. This
data is used to show that the first steps towards organized
textile production in northern Europe were taken more than 2,500
years ago. The industry that was to centre itself around the
English Channel and North Sea coastal areas played an important
part in the rise of the Carolingian Empire and Anglo-Saxon England.
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Woven
Into The Earth: Textile Finds in Norse Greenland
Author: Else Østergård
296 p., ill., 2004
Hardbound
ISBN 87 7288 935 7
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
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One of the century's most spectacular archaeological finds
occurred in 1921 when Poul Nørlund recovered dozens
of garments from a graveyard in the Norse settlement of Herjolfsnæs,
Greenland.
Preserved intact for centuries by the permafrost, these mediaeval
garments display remarkable similarities to western European
costumes of the time. Previously, such costumes were known
only from contemporary illustrations, and the Greenland finds
provided the world with a close look at how ordinary Europeans
dressed in the Middle Ages.
Fortunately for Nørlund's team, wood has always been
extremely scarce in Greenland, and instead of caskets, many
of the bodies were found swaddled in multiple layers of cast-off
clothing.
Eighty years of technical advances and subsequent excavations
have greatly added to our understanding of the Herjolfsnæs
discoveries.
In Woven into the Earth Else Østergård recounts
the dramatic story of Nørlund's excavation in the context
of other Norse textile finds in Greenland. She describes what
the finds tell us about the materials and methods used in
making the clothes.
The weaving and sewing techniques detailed here are surprisingly
sophisticated, and one can only admire the talent of the women
who employed them, especially considering the harsh conditions
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The Bayeux Tapestry
Introduction, description and commentary by David M. Wilson
Foreword by Jean Le Carpentier
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ISBN 0500 251223
34.0 x 26.0 cm
Hardback including 1 foldout
234pp
Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout
First published 2004
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in Normandy, in a museum specially devised to hold this single
object, is a strip of linen nearly a thousand years old. .
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Nothing remotely like the Bayeux Tapestry exists anywhere
else. In a series of vivid scenes, with a running explanatory
text in Latin, the Tapestry relates the invasion of England
by William of Normandy and his victory at the Battle of Hastings
in 1066.
This book makes it accessible as never before and allows us
to appreciate how totally absorbing it is.
The Tapestry is reproduced in full colour, with captions
on a fold-out page for easy reference. A second reproduction
of the Tapestry in black and white has a detailed accompanying
commentary. Sir David Wilson, former Director of the British
Museum, provides an up-to-date summary of the historical evidence,
explains each episode and covers related topics such as the
costumes, armour, ships, buildings and customs.
As a social document the Tapestry is of incalculable value.
As a work of art it is the sole survivor of a form which may
once have been wide-spread, the wall-hanging commemorating
the deeds of a great man.
Sir David Wilson's many books include The Northern World,
The Vikings and Their Origins and The Anglo-Saxons.
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Encyclopaedia of the Viking Age
John Haywood |
12 colour illustrations
13 b/w illustrations
408 pages
Size: 24 x 17 cm
ISBN: 1843830817
Binding: Hardback
First published: 2004
Price: 50.00 USD / 30.00 GBP
Imprint: Boydell Press
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| The Encyclopaedia of the Viking Age uncovers
the fascinating story of the Vikings both at peace and at
war. More than 400 copiously illustrated articles present
all aspects of Viking society, including its history, laws
and customs; its industry, arts and literature; and its myths
and folklore.
Here you can discover not only how the Vikings successfully
and brutally conquered vast areas of eastern and western Europe,
but also how they dressed; how they farmed; how they raised
their children; how they buried their dead; how they established
trade routes to places as far away as Constantinople and Baghdad;
and how, eventually, they converted from paganism to Christianity.
This more balanced appreciation of the people from the North
emerged after late-20th-century archaeologists discovered
widespread evidence of peaceful Viking activity in the fieldsof
trade, craft, exploration and settlement, in contrast to the
historical image of the Vikings as bloodthirsty, marauding
warriors.
Biographies of the leading personalities; maps and entries
on the Vikings’ settlements, a historical Introduction
on the Viking Age and a concise Chronology complete this invaluable
reference guide.
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Dress in Anglo-Saxon England
Revised and Enlarged Edition
Gale R. Owen-Crocker |
ISBN 1-84383-081-7
24.1 x 15.9 cm
Hardback
224pp
First published 2000
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| Revised and Enlarged Edition
Gale R. Owen-Crocker When it first came out in 1986, Gale
Owen-Crocker's book was a milestone in costume studies, a
foundation on which much work has subsequently been based.
Nearly twenty years later, there is more to be said, and this
updated edition is long overdue. An encyclopaedic study of
English dress from the fifth to the eleventh centuries, it
draws evidence from archaeology, text and art [manuscripts,
ivories, metalwork, stone sculpture, mosaics], and also from
re-enactors' experience. It examines archaeological textiles,
cloth production and the significance of imported cloth and
foreign fashions. Dress is discussed as a marker of gender,
ethnicity, status and social role - in the context of a pagan
burial, dress for holy orders, bequests of clothing, commissioning
a kingly wardrobe, and much else - and surviving dress fasteners
and accessories are examined with regard to type and to geographical/chronological
distribution. There are colour reconstructions of early Anglo-Saxon
dress and a cutting pattern for a gown from the Bayeux tapestry;
Old English garment names are discussed, and there is a glossary
of costume and other relevant terms.
GALE OWEN-CROCKER is Senior Lecturer in English Language,
University of Manchester. She has a special interest in dress
throughout the medieval period - she advises on dress entries
to the Toronto Old English Dictionary and has consulted for
many museums and television companies. She is co-editor of
the new journal Medieval Clothing and Textiles. Generously
illustrated with 25 plates, 12 in colour, and 140 drawings.
Contents
1 Introduction to the revised edition
2 A Historical Framework
3 Women's costume in the fifth and sixth centuries
4 Men's costume in the fifth and sixth centuries
5 Women's costume from the seventh to the ninth centuries
6 Men's costume from the seventh to the ninth centuries
7 Women's costume in the tenth and eleventh centuries
8 Men's costume in the tenth and eleventh centuries
9 Textile and textile production
10 The significance of dress
11 Appendix A: Old English garment-names
12 Appendix B: A possible cutting plan for an eleventh-century
gown
12 colour illustrations
13 b/w illustrations
408 pages
Size: 24 x 17 cm
ISBN: 1843830817
Binding: Hardback
First published: 2004
Imprint: Boydell Press
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