The primitive Anglo-Saxon calendar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3520010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth Harrison (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 188 |
| Pages | 284-287 |
| Publication date | 1973-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00039120 |
| OpenAlex | W2466650320 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 4 |
When the Anglo-Saxons invaded England, about the middle of the fifth century, they came as barbarians in the proper and Roman sense of the word, illiterate and unpolished. At the beginning, too, their religion was a paganism at variance with imperial Christianity. Yet they cannot have been the blundering creatures they are sometimes taken for: within a few generations this assortment of tribes had produced scholarship of European standing, in the persons of Aldhelm and Bede, and as to the decorative arts their jewelry and illumination of manuscripts-not forgetting Irish influence-were a match for anyone in the western world. Fierce and warlike at first, guilty of unprovoked aggression, most of them soon settled down to become peaceful farmers
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Christianity · Creatures · Forgetting · Irish · Literature · Paganism · Political science · Scholarship · Classics · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1983 - 2023 (41) |
| Highly cited | No |