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  1. Imagining the Anglo-Saxon past
    the search for Anglo-Saxon paganism and Anglo-Saxon trial by jury
    Autor*in: Stanley, Eric Gerald
    Erschienen: c2000
    Verlag:  D.S. Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk [England]

    Decisive argument on the issues under review by one of the leading Anglo-Saxon scholars mehr

    Standort:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Signatur:
    Online-Ressource
    Fernleihe:
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    Decisive argument on the issues under review by one of the leading Anglo-Saxon scholars

     
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Beteiligt: Stanley, Eric Gerald
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0859915883; 9780859915885
    Schlagworte: Mythology, Germanic, in literature; Paganism; Jury; English literature; Law, Anglo-Saxon; Anglo-Saxons
    Umfang: Online-Ressource (xv, 158 p), ill
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    Includes bibliographical references and indexes

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    CONTENTS; Preface to the new edition, AD 2000; Introduction to the 1975 edition of The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism; PART 1: THE SEARCH FOR ANGLO-SAXON PAGANISM; 1. The Romantic background; 2. The English branch of the German tree; 3. Christianity puts an end to folk-poetry; 4. `Half-veiled remains of pagan poetry'; 5. English and German views on the conversion of the English; 6. J.M. Kemble; 7. The views of the founders seen through the writings oftheir lesser contemporaries; 8. English views of the late nineteenth century and after

    9. Stock Views Disintegrating Old EnglishPoems and Finding Germanic Antiquitiesin themA. Disintegration; (i) Beowulf; (ii) The elegies; (iii) Gnomic Poems; B. The Search for Germanic Antiquities; 11. Wyrd; A. `Event' or `Fate', Norn or Fortune; B. Early Interpretations of Wyrd; C. Wyrd in a Leipzig Ph.D. Thesis; D. Germanic Fatalism Accommodated in Anglo-Saxon Christianity; E. Germanic Fatalism: a Key to Anglo-Saxon Melancholy; F. Wyrd: the Mark of Heathenism; G. Fate and Providence; H. Metod; I. More Recent Pagan Interpretations of Wyrd; J. Wyrd in Solomon and Saturn

    K. Current Views on Wyrd12. Conclusion; PART II: ANGLO-SAXON TRIAL BY JURY; Trial by Jury and How Later Ages Perceive its OriginPerhaps in Anglo-Saxon England; 1. Jury: this palladium of our liberties, sacredand inviolate; 2. Delivering the truth not the same as judging; 3. Guilt and innocence a matter of conscience; 4. `England's great and glorious Revolution'(1688), its debt to Henry II's revival ofancient institutions fostering liberty; 5. Trial by jury not a Proto-Germanic norperhaps an Anglo-Saxon institution; but whatof the twelve leading thegns of the Wapentake?

    6. Why promulgated at Wantage?7. The twelve of the wapentake probably aninstitution for the Danelaw only; 8. Conclusion; I. INDEX OF SOURCES; II. INDEX OF SCHOLARS, CRITICS, AND AUTHORS; III. GENERAL INDEX