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The extent to which Anglo-Saxon society was capable of large-scale
transformations of the landscape is hotly disputed. This
interdisciplinary book - embracing archaeological and historical
sources - explores this important period in our landscape history
and the extent to which buildings, settlements and field systems
were laid out using sophisticated surveying techniques. In
particular, recent research has found new and unexpected evidence
for the construction of building complexes and settlements on
geometrically precise grids, suggesting a revival of the techniques
of the Roman land-surveyors (Agrimensores). Two units of
measurement appear to have been used: the 'short perch' of 15 feet
in central and eastern England, where most cases occur, and the
'long perch' of 18 feet at the small number of examples identified
in Wessex. This technically advanced planning is evident during two
periods: c.600-800, when it may have been a mostly monastic
practice, and c.940-1020, when it appears to have been revived in a
monastic context but then spread to a wider range of lay
settlements. Planning in the Early Medieval Landscape is a
completely new perspective on how villages and other settlement
were formed. It combines map and field evidence with manuscript
treatises on land-surveying to show that the methods described in
the treatises were not just theoretical, but were put into
practice. In doing so it reveals a major aspect of previously
unrecognised early medieval technology.
A scholarly edition of poetical works by Christopher Smart. The
edition presents an authoritative text, together with an
introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
This book is a new edition of Christopher Smart's massive verse
translation of the Psalms. Alhough the Psalms are much less
well-known than his Song to David or Hymns and Spiritual Songs, the
translation was intended as the centerpiece of a project devoted to
poetically reforming the liturgy. In this work he aimed to meet the
demand, expressed by many in the mid-18th century, for a new
Anglican metrical psalter for regular use in the divine service
written in the spirit of Christianity'. The editor's introduction
and commentary include discussion of the Christianizing tendencies
of Smart's Psalm translations, comparison of Smart's methods with
those of earlier Psalm versifiers, demonstration of the connections
in idea and expression between Smart's Psalms and
mid-eighteenth-century Anglican Evangelicalism, and the use in the
Translation of New Testament themes and images.
This is the first critical edition of Christopher Smart's translation of Phaedrus' fables, and the first literary commentary on these fables in English. Many of the best-known Aesopian fables are in fact the work of the Roman poet Phaedrus. The fables are familiar yet fresh, and often have a startlingly contemporary flavour. Smart's versions successfully catch the spirit and humour of the Latin originals. The volume completes the distinguished edition of The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart.
The present volume, which contains miscellaneous English and Latin
verse, written throughout his career, shows Smart as he appeared to
his contemporaries: a brilliant but wayward scholar, who threw away
a life of distinction at Cambridge to engage in the raffish world
of the London theaters and pleasure gardens. By presenting the
poems in chronological order, it also reveals the pattern of his
evolution from both academic and popular roles into a poet
dedicated to Christian service. Over thirty pieces in this volume
have not appeared in any previous collection, and several are
reprinted for the first time since the 18th century. Translations
are provided for all Latin poems.
"Mining in a Medieval Landscape" explores the history and
archaeology of the late medieval royal silver mines at Bere Ferrers
in Devon's Tamar Valley and examines their significance for mining
history as a whole. Comparing their impact on the landscape with
that of less intensive, traditional mining industries, this
authoritative volume analyzes maps and documents together in light
of recent archaeological field surveys, allowing the mining
landscape to be reconstructed in remarkable detail.
First published in 1949, this book presents the collected works of
Christopher Smart, the eighteenth-century poet whose life has an
attraction for the curioso of literature. There is the early
marriage with Anne Vane, his secret marriage, eighteenth-century
Cambridge life, the intrigues of Grub Street, and, finally,
insanity and confinement in an asylum. Smart remains a strange,
enigmatic figure, repulsive or attractive according to the
temperament of the investigator. His poetry is not easy to
disentangle from his character - egocentric, given to
exhibitionism, childish, oscillating between the extremes of
self-belittlement and self-glorification; but he has his own claim
to fame. Few other poets match him in directness of expression. He
is a poet with the eye of a painter, developed in an unusually high
degree. He has a stereoscopic vision which makes the object leap to
the eye, the painter's sense of physical texture and his skill in
composing a picture. Then again, there is his versatility. He
practised almost every kind of poetry and gave to each kind his own
personal inflection. It is the aim of this edition to present as
complete a text as possible in the way that Smart himself would
have seen it and, in giving some account of the poet's life, to
link his poetry with it. The book will be of interest to students
of eighteenth-century literature and history.
Published here for the first time since 1767, Christopher Smart's verse translation of Horace strengthens the impression made by all Smart's later verse of a poet of remarkable lyrical virtuosity and boldness of expression. Karina Williamson's informative introduction discusses Smart's principles and methods in the context of 18th-century attitudes to the translation of classical works. Full scholarly apparatus is provided, as is a detailed commentary which explains the more obscure passages.
First published in 1949, this book presents the collected works of
Christopher Smart, the eighteenth-century poet whose life has an
attraction for the curioso of literature. There is the early
marriage with Anne Vane, his secret marriage, eighteenth-century
Cambridge life, the intrigues of Grub Street, and, finally,
insanity and confinement in an asylum. Smart remains a strange,
enigmatic figure, repulsive or attractive according to the
temperament of the investigator. His poetry is not easy to
disentangle from his character - egocentric, given to
exhibitionism, childish, oscillating between the extremes of
self-belittlement and self-glorification; but he has his own claim
to fame. Few other poets match him in directness of expression. He
is a poet with the eye of a painter, developed in an unusually high
degree. He has a stereoscopic vision which makes the object leap to
the eye, the painter's sense of physical texture and his skill in
composing a picture. Then again, there is his versatility. He
practised almost every kind of poetry and gave to each kind his own
personal inflection. It is the aim of this edition to present as
complete a text as possible in the way that Smart himself would
have seen it and, in giving some account of the poet's life, to
link his poetry with it. The book will be of interest to students
of eighteenth-century literature and history.
A scholarly edition of poetical works by Christopher Smart. The
edition presents an authoritative text, together with an
introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
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