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Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

Publisher : New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2013-11-26
ISBN : 1590177843
Pages : 360 pages
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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Attitudes written by Angus Wilson and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald Middleton is a sixty-year-old self-proclaimed failure. Worse than that, he’s "a failure with a conscience." As a young man, he was involved in an archaeological dig that turned up an obscene idol in the coffin of a seventh-century bishop and scandalized a generation. The discovery was in fact the most outrageous archaeological hoax of the century, and Gerald has long known who was responsible and why. But to reveal the truth is to risk destroying the world of cozy compromises that, personally as well as professionally, he has long made his own. One of England's first openly gay novelists, Angus Wilson was a dirty realist who relished the sleaze and scuffle of daily life. Slashingly satirical, virtuosically plotted, and displaying Dickensian humor and nerve, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes features a vivid cast of characters that includes scheming academics and fading actresses, big businessmen toggling between mistresses and wives, media celebrities, hustlers, transvestites, blackmailers, toadies, and even one holy fool. Everyone, it seems, is either in cahoots or in the dark, even as comically intrepid Gerald Middleton struggles to maintain some dignity while digging up a history of lies.

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

by Angus Wilson

Publisher : Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-11-17
ISBN : 0571280862
Pages : 348 pages
Rating Book: 4.7/5 (571 users)

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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Attitudes written by Angus Wilson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Angus Wilson is one of the most enjoyable novelists of the 20th century... Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956) analyses a wide range of British society in a complicated plot that offers all the pleasures of detective fiction combined with a steady and humane insight.' Margaret Drabble First published in 1956, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes draws upon perhaps the most famous archaeological hoax in history: the 'Piltdown Man', finally exposed in 1953. The novel's protagonist is Gerald Middleton, professor of early medieval history and taciturn creature of habit. Separated from his Swedish wife, Gerald is increasingly conscious of his failings. Moreover, some years ago he was involved in an excavation that led to the discovery of a grotesque idol in the tomb of Bishop Eorpwald. The sole survivor of the original excavation party, Gerald harbours a potentially ruinous secret...

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

by Angus Wilson

Publisher : London, Secker
Release Date : 1956
ISBN :
Pages : 436 pages
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Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

by Angus Wilson

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Release Date : 1974
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Pages : pages
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Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, a Novel by Angus Wilson

by Angus Wilson

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Release Date : 1956
ISBN :
Pages : 412 pages
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Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

by John Anthony Hilton

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Release Date : 2006
ISBN :
Pages : 72 pages
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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Attitudes written by John Anthony Hilton and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a book about the Anglo-Saxons, but a book about books about Anglo-Saxons. It describes the academic discipline of Anglo-Saxonism, the methods of study used, the underlying assumptions, and the uses to which it has been put. Methods and motives have changed over time, but right from the start there have been the constant themes of Anglo-Saxon democracy and the rights of the freeborn Englishman. They have given rise to ideas and perceptions that have greatly influenced the development of English society and political history.

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

by Angus Wilson

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Release Date : 1957
ISBN :
Pages : 339 pages
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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Attitudes written by Angus Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

by Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson

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Release Date : 1958
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

by Angus Wilson

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Release Date : 1991-08-08
ISBN : 9780749309145
Pages : pages
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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Attitudes written by Angus Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1991-08-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes to the Past

by Sarah Jane Semple

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Release Date : 2002
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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A Critical Study of Mr Angus Wilson's Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

by Nicole Weil

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Release Date : 1964
ISBN :
Pages : 250 pages
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Download or read book A Critical Study of Mr Angus Wilson's Anglo-Saxon Attitudes written by Nicole Weil and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Attitudes Anglo-saxon

by Angus Wilson

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Release Date : 1957
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology

by Helena Hamerow

Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2011-03-31
ISBN : 0199212147
Pages : 1110 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (199 users)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology written by Helena Hamerow and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a team of experts and presenting the results of the most up-to-date research, The Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology will both stimulate and support further investigation into a society poised at the interface between prehistory and history.

This England

by Audrey Hilton

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Release Date : 1982
ISBN : 9780048270672
Pages : 184 pages
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Download or read book This England written by Audrey Hilton and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thinking of the Medieval

by Benjamin A. Saltzman

Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-13
ISBN : 1108807968
Pages : 361 pages
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Download or read book Thinking of the Medieval written by Benjamin A. Saltzman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mid-twentieth century gave rise to a rich array of new approaches to the study of the Middle Ages by both professional medievalists and those more well-known from other pursuits, many of whom continue to exert their influence over politics, art, and history today. Attending to the work of a diverse and transnational group of intellectuals – Hannah Arendt, Erich Auerbach, W. E. B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Erwin Panofsky, Simone Weil, among others – the essays in this volume shed light on these thinkers in relation to one another and on the persistence of their legacies in our own time. This interdisciplinary collection gives us a fuller and clearer sense of how these figures made some of their most enduring contributions with medieval culture in mind. Thinking of the Medieval is a timely reminder of just how vital the Middle Ages have been in shaping modern thought.

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

by John Hargreaves

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Release Date : 1981*
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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Medieval Women and the Law

by Noël James Menuge

Publisher : Boydell Press
Release Date : 2003
ISBN : 9780851159324
Pages : 188 pages
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Download or read book Medieval Women and the Law written by Noël James Menuge and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal records illuminate womens' use of legal processes, with regard to the making of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage and children, women as traders, etc. Determined and largely successful effort to read behind and alongside legal discourses to discover women's voices and women's feelings. It adds usefully to the wider debate on women's role in medieval society. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW What is really new here is the ways in which the authors approach the history of the law: they use some decidedly non-legal texts to examine legal history; they bring together historical and literary sources; and they debunk the view that medieval laws had little to say about women or that medieval women had little legal agency. ALBION The legal position of the late medieval woman has been much neglected, and it is this gap which the essays collected here seek to fill. They explore the ways in which women of all ages and stations during the late middle ages (c.1300-c.1500) could legally shift for themselves, and how and where they did so. Particular topics discussed include the making of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage, care, custody and guardianship (with particular emphasis on the rights of a mother attempting to gain custody of her own children within the court system), women as traders, women as criminals, prostitution, the rights of battered women within the courts, the procedures women had to go through to gain legal redress and access, rape, and women within guilds. NOELJAMES MENUGE gained her Ph.D. from the Centre of Medieval Studies at the University of York. Contributors: P.J.P. GOLDBERG, VICTORIA THOMPSON, JENNIFER SMITH, CORDELIA BEATTIE, KATHERINE J. LEWIS, NOEL JAMES MENUGE, CORINNE SAUNDERS, KIM M. PHILLIPS, EMMA HAWKES