Angles on a Kingdom East Anglian Identities from Bede to Ælfric

Joseph Grossi, "Angles on a Kingdom: East Anglian Identities from Bede to Ælfric"
English | ISBN: 1487505736 | 2021 | 400 pages | PDF | 2 MB
From the eighth century to the turn of the millennium, East Anglia had a variety of identities thrust upon it by authors of the period who envisioned a unified England. Although they were not regional writers in the modern sense, Bede, Felix, the annalists of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, King Alfred of Wessex, Abbo of Fleury, and Ælfric of Eynsham took a keen interest in East Anglia, especially in its potential to undo English cultural cohesiveness as they imagined it.