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How the Anglican church responded to population growth and the need
for more accommodation, with the building of 1500 new churches,
many of the finest quality. This book is the first comprehensive
study of late-Georgian church-building. After centuries of
post-Reformation inactivity, the Church of England began to address
the desperate shortage of accommodation and build on a huge scale.
Almost all the leading architects were involved and, amongst
approximately 1500 new churches there are some outstanding designs;
buildings of the very highest order architecturally. In this
pioneering study, the churches are considered free from the
Ecclesiological zeal that condemned them and has, for so long,
prevented their serious study. It will celebrate the best of them
and provide valuable insights into the design and planning of the
whole corpus. There will be many revelations. Included is a
thorough examination of the stylistic alternatives and contemporary
liturgical imperatives, along with their architectural
implications. And the book explores a lost world of late-Georgian
churchgoing: what people expected and experienced in a church
service. Also considered are some of the period's remarkable
material and constructional innovations, ones often exploited in
church-building, along with the provision of architectural services
in the era that preceded full professionalisation.
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Dahn t' Pit
Christopher Webster
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R456
Discovery Miles 4 560
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Warrior
Christopher Webster
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R264
Discovery Miles 2 640
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Rightful King
Christopher Webster
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R267
Discovery Miles 2 670
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Warrior Woman
Christopher Webster
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R267
Discovery Miles 2 670
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Nithing
Christopher Webster
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R296
Discovery Miles 2 960
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English Dawn
Christopher Webster
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R768
Discovery Miles 7 680
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Hengest (Paperback)
Christopher Webster
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R215
Discovery Miles 2 150
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"Who are you men, armoured in mail, who come sailing upon the
sliding sea-road to the land of Britannia? Long have I held the
sea-watch in season as the king's coast-warden, that no pirates
might pillage the people of Vortigern. Never have I seen a noble
more mighty or more haughty " This is how the British coast-warden
greets Hengest, the first named Anglo-Saxon to come to Britain.
After the failure of the Finnesburh mission, King Hoc exiled
Hengest, and he set sail with three ships and three hundred men in
the hope of serving King Vortigern as a mercenary. The story that
follows is as exciting as the story of Beowulf. It includes several
battles, a femme fatale (Hengest's daughter, Rowena), and
characters from the Arthurian legend, including Merlin and Uther.
It also includes a battle between dragons, a contest between
wizards, and a clash of faiths. This reconstruction of the lost
Saga of Hengest is told in a modern version of the Anglo-Saxon
alliterative line and is closely based on original sources,
extracts from which are given at the end of the book along with
detailed notes and a bibliography.
After the death of his brother, Heorogar, in a battle with the
Heathobards, a reluctant Hrothgar is appointed king. He immediately
finds himself on the horns of a dilemma: does he fight the
Heathobards, or does he offer his daughter, Freawaru, as a
'peaceweaver'? Either decision seems doomed to fail: his army is
not big enough to win a decisive victory, but if he makes peace,
his nobles will think him weak and want to remove him from the
throne. Hrothgar is best known from the Anglo-Saxon epic poem,
Beowulf, where he appears in a background role as the king whose
hall is attacked by a troll. This book aims to put Hrothgar in the
foreground. His story is fleshed out with information from other
sources, particularly the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus.
Several other characters from Nordic legend also make an
appearance: the dragon-slayer, Frodo, the Northland's greatest
warrior, Starkath, and Hrothgar's berserker, Bjarki Bear-Sark.
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