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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 70 The earliest beginnings of our common life as Englishmen can hardly fail of a perennial interest for us. And to return to the fountain-head of English history, to the period when England was in the making, and to the study of one among these great and early Englishmen, is no unprofitable nor uncongenial task. Among the illustrious of that early period the name of Alcwine stands high. Coming, as he did, between the father of English learning, the venerable Bede, and Aelfred, the first great English king, his historical position makes him interesting from two points of view. He is the outcome of that earliest period of English intellectual development which was the work of Northumbria, before internal discords completed its ruin and compelled it to submit to Mercia under Ofla. And he is an Englishman of an England whose political capital was not London but York, whose religious centre was lindisfarne not Canterbury, whose fathers of the Church were Aidan and St. Cuthbert, not Theodore or St. Dunstan. Alcwine belongs to the Northumbrian epoch of English evolution. And it is important to bear this in mind, for his character and the colour of his imagination were essentially northern. But Alcwine differs from the great scholar who preceded him and the great king who followed Him in this. He is the first Englishman who directly affected the movement of the continent, and whose influent has remained a permanent factor in European history. Bede never left his convent of Jarrow, by the mouth of the Wear; Aelfred's days were employed in repelling the Danes and in making Wessex supreme in England. But the active period of Alcwine's life was passed chiefly in France. His fame is bound up with the court and the work of Charlemagne, or Karl, as we must call him. To that work he brought an...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217329385 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217329381 |
| Weight | 2.26 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.56 In |
| List Price | $22.40 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 710 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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