Synopses & Reviews
This is a lucid, authoritative and well-balanced account of Anglo-Saxon history. Peter Hunter Blair's book has achieved classic status, and is published now with a new, up-to-date bibliography prepared by Simon Keynes. Between the end of the Roman occupation and the coming of the Normans, England was settled by Germanic races; the kingdom as a political unit was created, heathenism yielded to a vigorous Christian Church, superb works of art were made, and the English language - spoken and written - took its form. These origins of the English heritage are Hunter Blair's subject. The first two chapters survey Anglo-Saxon England: its wars, its invaders, its peoples and its kings. The remaining chapters deal with specific aspects of its culture: its Church, government, economy and literary achievement. Throughout the author uses illustrations and a wide range of sources - documents, archaeological evidence and place names - to illuminate the period as a whole.
Review
'\"This is a general history intended for the novice and it is, I think, a quite remarkably successful production.\" The New Statesman\"\"This is a very useful introductory overview of Buddhist ethics and one that improves on other books of its type...The book has the added advantage that, assuming Harvey\'s introduction and these reference tool (or some background), each of the issue chapter could stand alone...In sum, anyone who has struggled to find an imformative, single-volume starting for the amorphous field of \"Buddhist ethics\" will appreciate Harvey\'s contribution. This book fills a real void in the field.\" The Journal of Religion `'
Table of Contents
List of illustrations; Note on the re-issue of the second edition; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; 1. The foundations of England; 2. Britain and the Vikings; 3. The Church; 4. Government; 5. Economy; 6. Letters; Select bibliography; Index.