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so here's how i feel about Beowulf as a historical source


Evidence for the life of the early Anglo Saxons in Britain is relatively scant. There have been important archaeological digs like that at Sutton Hoo but putting together a picture of Anglo Saxon life remains a difficult task. It is at this point that we turn to the literature about the period. The historian...
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so here's how i feel about rural settlement in England during the Anglo Saxon period:


Rural Settlement in England During the Anglo Saxon Period


Its very difficult to generalise rural life in the Anglo-Saxon period. Conflicting evidence suggests that not all rural settlements worked the same way. Lovelucks report on the excavation at Flixborough makes various attempts to justify the site as a basis for...
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So here's how i feel about the Battle of Maldon


Written from the point of view of an Anglo-Saxon, The Battle of Maldon is considered a contemporary account of a victorious battle for the Viking invaders of England over the Anglo-Saxons and the then king, Aethelred the Unready. The poem itself seems like a document written to praise the brave and condemn the cowards of...
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So here's how i feel about Asser's "Life of King Alfred"


Asser, a Welsh scholar wrote his Life of King Alfred as king Alfreds biographer. Clearly not an objective biography, Assers Life was written to glorify the Wessex dynasty and in this selected piece does so, through its depiction of Alfreds glorious victories. Perhaps written as an advertisement to those not yet under the rule...
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So here's how i feel about the rule of Saint Columbanus


The rule of Saint Columbanus (died 615 after spending time in Bangor before founding monasteries in Annegray, Luxeuil and Bobbio) and the Rule of Benedict (a popular european contemporary), clearly contrast the difference in opinion to how monasticism should be effected between semi-isolated Ireland and the changing more relaxed trend existing in Europe. Examining...
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So here's how i feel about RIchard II in Ireland:


In the late fourteenth century with the Gaelic resurgence well underway, an attempt to regain lost lands and conquer new was made by king Richard II of England. Just back from France, Richard, clearly very interested in the Irish problem, assembled a huge army in england and sailed it to Leinster and the front door...
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So here's how i feel about the enactments of the 1297 parliament:

The enactments of the 1297 parliament addressed the growing concerns of the English for the security of the lands they had occupied in Ireland. Those lands held by the English close to the marches were being abandoned by their land owners for their safer lands. This was leaving their lands close to the...
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