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Road to Chaucer: History and Literature of Early England Part 6: End of the Anglo Saxon Period
In our previous we spoke about England under the first king to call himself “King of the English People”: Athelstan. For the first time, the word “England” had real meaning. But Athelstan’s greatness was not only military. His court became a beacon of culture and scholarship. Manuscripts were collected, laws codified, and scholars drawn from… Continue reading
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Road to Chaucer: History and Literature of Early England Part 5: Anglo-Saxon Britain
Before we get to pilgrims and playful storytelling with Geoffrey Chaucer, we have to go back much further, to a time that feels almost unrecognizable. When the Romans left Britain in the early 5th century, they did not make a dramatic exit. There was no grand farewell, no final speech, no sense of closure. They… Continue reading
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