Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past by Eric Gerald Stanley
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Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past

Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past


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E.G. Stanley has an international reputation as a leading Anglo-Saxonist, and his perceptive and original contributions to the field continue to be sought after by Anglo-Saxon scholars. The two topics included in this book are just such studies. `The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism' traces an attitude among writers on Anglo-Saxon literature which exalts whatever is primitive and supposedly pagan or crypto-pagan in the surviving Old English texts of the early Christian middle ages, as demonstrated in the work of such luminaries as Jacob Grimm and J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as a swarm of minor figures. Students of Old English literature will find some of their cherished views on individual texts challenged in the process of tracing them to their foundations; but the book has wider implications as a case-history of how scholarly predilection becomes prejudice and orthodoxy. Although written some years ago, the arguments, with some updates and corrections, remain fresh and invigorating.
The second part of the book deals with the search for trial by jury among the Anglo-Saxons. Its beginnings have been sought by some in Germanic legalinstitutions, by others in institutions brought in by King Alfred to whom much that is great and good in the governance of England was ascribed. The author argues that the idealism that characterized advocates of political and legal reform guided them to a few facts about the origin of jury and to many simplifications and errors in which the Anglo-Saxons appeared as shining forerunners.
E.G. STANLEY is Professor Emeritus of Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780859915885
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
  • Publisher Imprint: Boydell & Brewer
  • Height: 244 mm
  • No of Pages: 174
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 485 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0859915883
  • Publisher Date: 07 Dec 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 162 mm


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