The Making of Early and Mediaeval Britain: Life and Work to the Close of the Middle Ages - Softcover

Derry, T. K.; Blakeway, M.G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719528348 ISBN 13: 9780719528347

Publisher: John Murray Publishers, 1973

Synopsis

In this book, the authors show the wide variety of influences which, from the distant past, shaped the British people and brought them to the threshold of modern times. Stone Age men, the Celts and Romano-British, the Saxons, Vikings, Norman-French - all of these we see as they work and trade, worship and fight, develop their laws and languages, and build up communities. The book ends with poets and letter-writers, which enables us to catch a glimpse of the pilgrims of Chaucer jogging their way to Canterbury. They may stand as the representative descendants (even if by tenancy rather than blood) of their Stone Age predecessors. Yet their lives were far richer than their forerunners could have dreamed of. They rode from the bustling 'flower of cities all' to the soaring beauty of the Canterbury church which housed the martyred bones of Becket - a shrine of European importance, symbolic of the one-ness of the British people with the European world beyond.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Murray Publishers
• Publication date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719528348
• ISBN 13: 9780719528347
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220