Anglo-Saxon Aptitudes
John Gillingham, 17 November 1983
The Anglo-Saxons
edited by James Campbell.
Phaidon, 272 pp., £16.50, July 1982,0 7148 2149 7 Show More
edited by James Campbell.
Phaidon, 272 pp., £16.50, July 1982,
Anglo-Saxon Art: A New Perspective
by C.R. Dodwell.
Manchester, 353 pp., £35, October 1982,0 7190 0861 1 Show More
by C.R. Dodwell.
Manchester, 353 pp., £35, October 1982,
Anglo-Saxon Poetry
edited by S.A.J. Bradley.
Dent, 559 pp., £10.95, August 1982,0 460 10794 1 Show More
edited by S.A.J. Bradley.
Dent, 559 pp., £10.95, August 1982,
The Anglo-Saxon World
edited by Kevin Crossley-Holland.
Boydell and Brewer, 275 pp., £9.95, November 1982,0 85115 169 8 Show More
edited by Kevin Crossley-Holland.
Boydell and Brewer, 275 pp., £9.95, November 1982,
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles: The Authentic Voices of England, from the Times of Julius Caesar to the Coronation of Henry II
by Anne Savage.
Heinemann, 288 pp., £14.95, March 1983,0 434 98210 5 Show More
by Anne Savage.
Heinemann, 288 pp., £14.95, March 1983,
“... Godwineson took over the old royal estates and united them with his own immense holdings. C.R. Dodwell’s cogent argument is that surviving examples of Anglo-Saxon art are not representative. Indeed, in his view, those objects which the Anglo-Saxons admired most are precisely those which have not survived – because they were the costliest and therefore ... ”
