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Anglo-Saxonism and the idea of Englishness in eighteenth-century Britain / Dustin M. Frazier Wood.

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The importance of the Anglo-Saxon past to England in the eighteenth century, politically and culturally, is here brought out.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author:	Frazier Wood, Dustin M. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2020.
Series:	Medievalism (Series) ; v. 18.
Subjects:	National characteristics, English. Nationalism > England > History. Anglo-Saxon > History. Anglo-Saxon > Historiography. Anglo-Saxon > Influence. England > Civilization > 18th century. England > Social life and customs > 18th century. Great Britain > Politics and government > 18th century. Civilization. Great Britain.

Table of Contents:

Frontcover
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on the Text
Abbreviations
Introduction: Anglo-Saxonism, Medievalism and the Eighteenth Century
1 Anglo-Saxonisms of the Early Eighteenth Century
Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Later Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
Anglo-Saxonism and the Hanoverian Succession
From Philology to Antiquarianism
2 Antiquaries and Anglo-Saxons
Antiquarian Networks and Resources for Anglo-Saxon Studies
Coins
Artefacts
Barrows
Architecture
Antiquarianism and Medievalism.
3 Anglo-Saxon History and the English Landscape
Histories of England
Antiquarian Historiography
Local History
History, Identity and Heritage
4 Imaging and Imagining Anglo-Saxonness
Antiquarian Images of Anglo-Saxon England
Illustrating English History
English History Delineated
Anglo-Saxons and History Painting
The Ancestral Portrait Gallery
5 Anglo-Saxonist Politics and Posterity
Anglo-Saxonism and Gothicism
The Anglo-Saxon Constitution
The Legislature
The Common Law
Staging the Anglo-Saxon Nation
Anglo-Saxonism and Political Identity.
Conclusion: Sharon Turner's The History of the Anglo-Saxons
Bibliography
Index.