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03095aam a2200409Ii 4500 001 CFCDB5DAE55311E7AFB0C42A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20171220010225 008 160415t20172017enkab b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1784530050 020 $a 9781784530051 035 $a (OCoLC)949770972 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d YDX $d QGJ $d CDX $d OCLCF $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-en $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/e-uk-en 050 4 $a DA152 $b .A84 2017 082 04 $a 942.01 $2 23 100 1 $a Atherton, Mark, $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2001035367 245 14 $a The making of England : $b a new history of the Anglo-Saxon world / $c Mark Atherton. 264 1 $a London : $b I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., $c 2017. 300 $a xii, 340 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Library of medieval studies ; $v 2 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-330) and index. 520 8 $a During the tenth century England began to emerge as a distinct country with an identity that was both part of yet separate from 'Christendom'. The reigns of Athelstan, Edgar and Ethelred witnessed the emergence of many key institutions: the formation of towns on modern street plans; an efficient administration; and a serviceable system of tax. Mark Atherton here shows how the stories, legends, biographies and chronicles of Anglo-Saxon England reflected both this exciting time of innovation as well as the myriad lives, loves and hates of the people who wrote them. He demonstrates, too, that this was a nation coming of age, ahead of its time in its use not of the Book-Latin used elsewhere in Europe, but of a narrative Old English prose devised for law and practical governance of the nation-state, for prayer and preaching, and above all for exploring a rich and daring new literature. This prose was unique, but until now it has been neglected for the poetry. Bringing a volatile age to vivid and muscular life, Atherton argues that it was the vernacular of Alfred the Great, as much as Viking war, that truly forged the nation. 650 0 $a Anglo-Saxons $z England. 650 0 $a English prose literature $y Old English, ca. 450-1100 $x History and criticism. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History $y Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056730 650 7 $a Anglo-Saxons. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00808980 650 7 $a English prose literature $x Old English. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01711049 651 7 $a England. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01219920 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 648 7 $a 449-1100 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 830 0 $a Library of medieval studies ; $v v. 2. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014160558 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217020450.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CFCDB5DAE55311E7AFB0C42A97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search