Illustrated by the Anglo-Saxon Antiquities in the British Museum, in a Course of Six Lectures
by
James Frederick Hodgetts
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
What can we learn about a people from the artifacts they left behind? In Russia, 1883, under the auspices of the British Museum, the author delivered these six lectures about England before the Norman Conquest. He recreates an entire universe from “The Earthen Jar,” a lecture on Anglo-Saxon pottery;...