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Voyage To The Other World Calvin Kendall

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Voyage To The Other World By Calvin Kendall

Voyage To The Other World by Calvin Kendall

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This volume details the interdisciplinary impact of Sutton Hoo over the past half-century and reconsiders aspects of the culture of Anglo-Saxon England in the broad context of its connections with Scandinavian and Merovingian Europe.

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Voyage To The Other World: The Legacy of Sutton Hoo by Calvin Kendall

A fascinating exploration of pagan Anglo-Saxon culture-a world caught on the boundary between competing ideologies and contrasting social systems.

Contributors: James Campbell, Martin Carver, Robert Payson Creed, Roberta Frank, Michael N. Geselowitz, Gloria Polizzotti Greis, Henrik M. Jansen, Simon Keynes, Edward Schoenfeld, Jana Schulman, Alan M. Stahl, Wesley M. Stevens, and Else Roesdahl.

Medieval Cultures Series, volume 5

About Calvin Kendall

Calvin B. Kendall is a professor of English and Germanic philology at the University of Minnesota. His publications include The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf (Cambridge, 1991).

Peter S. Wells is a professor of anthropology and the director of the Center for Ancient Studies at the University of Minnesota. His publications include Farms, Villages and Cities: Commerce and Urban Origins in Late Prehistoric Europe (Ithaca, 1984) and Iron Age Temperate Europe Some Current Research Issues, Journal of World Prehistory (1990).

Table of Contents

Introduction - Sutton Hoo and early medieval northern Europe, Calvin B. Kendall and Peter S. Wells; the Sutton Hoo objects: the nature of the Sutton Hoo coin parcel, Alan M. Stahl; Sutton Hoo: an economic assessment, Edward Schoenfeld and Jana Schulman; Sutton Hoo art: two millennia of history, Gloria Polizzotti Greis and Michael N.Geselowitz; Sutton Hoo and Beowulf, Beowulf and Sutton Hoo: the odd couple, Roberta Frank; Sutton Hoo and the recording of Beowulf, Robert Payson Creed; Sutton Hoo and Anglo-Saxon History: the impact of the Sutton Hoo discovery on the study of Anglo-Saxon history, James Campbell; Raedwald the Bretwalda, Simon Keynes. (Part contents).

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GOR007855861
9780816620241
0816620245
Voyage To The Other World: The Legacy of Sutton Hoo by Calvin Kendall
Calvin Kendall
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of Minnesota Press
1992-06-03
248
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