Riddles In The British Landscape
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Riddles In The British Landscape
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Author : Richard Muir
language : en
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Release Date : 1981
Riddles In The British Landscape written by Richard Muir and has been published by Thames & Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Antiquities, Prehistoric categories.
Examines the ancient monuments, hill figures, and fortifications of Great Britain and attempts to analyze what they indicate about the lives of prehistoric Britons and garrisoned Roman soldiers
Riddles In Stone
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Author : Richard Hayman
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2007-01-15
Riddles In Stone written by Richard Hayman and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-15 with History categories.
Who built Avebury and Stonehenge? Why and when were more than 600 stone circles, and thousands of barrows and cairns, erected in prehistoric Britain? What were they used for and what do they tell us about the beliefs and culture of their builders? Riddles in Stone is a history of the extraordinary variety of answers that have been given to these questions, by amateurs and professionals, archaeologists and astronomers, mystics and systems theorists. While modern excavation and radiocarbon dating has undoubtedly advanced our knowledge of the sequence and date of the monuments, their purpose and meaning is still hotly debated. Indeed no previous century has changed its mind so often as the twentieth - or provided such a welter of differing opinions. Each theory has as much to say about its own time as it has about prehistory. The stones have been used to enhance the authority of the Bible, to endorse the civilizing mission of the British Empire - and to argue that the Ancient Britons could work a computer. In a reaction to modern industrial society, they have been credited with spiritual powers and natural energies. Even the views of modern archaeologists often seem to reflect the latest academic fad, rather than a lasting solution. Riddles in Stone is an entertaining and instructive account of a debate on a subject of endless fascination.
Warfare Raiding And Defence In Early Medieval Britain
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Author : Erik Grigg
language : en
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Release Date : 2018-05-21
Warfare Raiding And Defence In Early Medieval Britain written by Erik Grigg and has been published by The Crowood Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-21 with History categories.
Warfare, Raiding and Defence in early medieval Britain is an examination of warfare in the period AD400-850, often called the Dark Ages, which is roughly the period between the end of Roman rule and the arrival of large Viking armies. It uses written sources, archaeological evidence and surviving features in the landscape to analyse the nature of warfare in those days, paying particular attention to the large defensive earthworks typical of the period. Luckily these earthworks survive long after the warriors have turned to dust; their locations in the landscape are mute witness to the nature of early medieval warfare. This period helped forge and mould the nations of modern Britain. This book shows that raiding was the driving force behind the political, cultural and linguistic changes that affected post-Roman Britain, and provides a picture of how raids and counter-raiding measures worked in practice. Includes 70 colour illustrations.
Journeying In Macdougall Country
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Author : Walter Macdougall
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2008
Journeying In Macdougall Country written by Walter Macdougall and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Travel categories.
Walk the glens and hills of the highlands with Walter Marshall Macdougall, enthusiastic tourist, investigative researcher, and spirited Highlander. With kinsfolk and friends, including the 30th Chief of Clan MacDougall, he traces the historical and cultural roads of the clan throughout the ancient territory of Somerled. After years of studying clan history and corresponding with Scottish kin, the author's dream of journeying to MacDougall Country became a reality. In Journeying in MacDougall Country, his journal notes and sketches are supplemented with maps, historical notes, and geographical information to form a unique illustrated travel guide for all who wish to explore this country and its people. "This beautifully written book should give tremendous pleasure to many." ~ Coline MacDougall of MacDougall, 30th Chief."A delight in store for many and a 'must read' for MacDougall clansfolk." ~ Morag MacDougall of MacDougall, 31st Chief.
The Wanderer
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-11-07
The Wanderer written by and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07 with Fiction categories.
Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Wanderer tells the classic tales that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings 'So the company of men led a careless life, All was well with them: until One began To encompass evil, an enemy from hell. Grendel they called this cruel spirit...' J.R.R. Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching the great epic stories of northern Europe, filled with heroes, dragons, trolls, dwarves and magic. He was hugely influential for his advocacy of Beowulf as a great work of literature and, even if he had never written The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, would be recognised today as a significant figure in the rediscovery of these extraordinary tales. Legends from the Ancient North brings together from Penguin Classics five of the key works behind Tolkien's fiction.They are startling, brutal, strange pieces of writing, with an elemental power brilliantly preserved in these translations.They plunge the reader into a world of treachery, quests, chivalry, trials of strength.They are the most ancient narratives that exist from northern Europe and bring us as near as we will ever get to the origins of the magical landscape of Middle-earth (Midgard) which Tolkien remade in the 20th century.
The Aesthetics Of Ruins
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Author : Robert Ginsberg
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-08-04
The Aesthetics Of Ruins written by Robert Ginsberg and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-04 with Philosophy categories.
This book constructs a theory of ruins that celebrates their vitality and unity in aesthetic experience. Its argument draws upon over 100 illustrations prepared in 40 countries. Ruins flourish as matter, form, function, incongruity, site, and symbol. Ruin underlies cultural values in cinema, literature and philosophy. Finally, ruin guides meditations upon our mortality and endangered world.
My First Riddle
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Author : Donna Samworth
language : en
Publisher: Young Writers
Release Date : 2011
My First Riddle written by Donna Samworth and has been published by Young Writers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Riddles categories.
Britain By The Book
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Author : Oliver Tearle
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-11-02
Britain By The Book written by Oliver Tearle and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-02 with History categories.
What caused Dickens to leap out of bed one night and walk 30 miles from London to Kent? How did a small town on the Welsh borders become the second-hand bookshop capital of the world? Why did a jellyfish persuade Evelyn Waugh to abandon his suicide attempt in North Wales? A multitude of curious questions are answered in Britain by the Book, a fascinating travelogue with a literary theme, taking in unusual writers' haunts and the surprising places that inspired some of our favourite fictional locations. We'll learn why Thomas Hardy was buried twice, how a librarian in Manchester invented the thesaurus as a means of coping with depression, and why Agatha Christie was investigated by MI5 during the Second World War. The map of Britain that emerges is one dotted with interesting literary stories and bookish curiosities.
Sound And Sense In British Romanticism
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Author : James Grande
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-09-07
Sound And Sense In British Romanticism written by James Grande and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
This unparalleled exploration reveals how understandings of sound shifted and multiplied in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on literary studies, musicology and history, and interrogating how writers of this period thought with and through sound, this book opens up a new chapter in the history of the senses.
The Archaeology Of Slavery In Early Medieval Northern Europe
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Author : Felix Biermann
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-11-18
The Archaeology Of Slavery In Early Medieval Northern Europe written by Felix Biermann and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-18 with Social Science categories.
This volume is the first comprehensive study of the material imprint of slavery in early medieval Europe. While written sources attest to the ubiquity of slavery and slave trade in early medieval British Isles, Scandinavia and Slavic lands, it is still difficult to find material traces of this reality, other than the hundreds of thousands of Islamic coins paid in exchange for the northern European slaves. This volume offers the first structured reflection on how to bridge this gap. It reviews the types of material evidence that can be associated with the institution of slavery and the slave trade in early medieval northern Europe, from individual objects (such as e.g. shackles) to more comprehensive landscape approaches. The book is divided into four sections. The first presents the analytical tools developed in Africa and prehistoric Europe to identify and describe social phenomena associated with slavery and the slave trade. The following three section review the three main cultural zones of early medieval northern Europe: the British Isles, Scandinavia, and Slavic central Europe. The contributions offer methodological reflections on the concept of the archaeology of slavery. They emphasize that the material record, by its nature, admits multiple interpretations. More broadly, this book comes at a time when the history of slavery is being integrated into academic syllabi in most western countries. The collection of studies contributes to a more nuanced perspective on this important and controversial topic. This volume appeals to multiple audiences interested in comparative and global studies of slavery, and will constitute the point of reference for future debates.