In search of England : journeys into the English past
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In search of England : journeys into the English past
（Penguin books）
Penguin Books, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-326) and index
First published by Viking , 1999
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Where does the idea of England and Englishness come from? Can we see it beginning in the Dark and Middle Ages? Michael Wood tackles these fascinating questions in two ways. First, with a series of pieces on famous English myths. And secondly by looking at the history of half a dozen places in England: a farmhouse on Dartmoor, a battlefield in Sheffield, a medieval village near Leicester...By these means he describes the origins of a sense of Englishness, and how it has developed through the centuries. "The book triumphs...His England is both a real place and an invented community which has proved its worth" - "TLS."
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Myth and history: the Norman Yoke
- King Arthur - lost again?
- Glastonbury, the grail and the Isle of Avalon
- merrie Englande - the legend of Robin Hood
- when was England England?. Part 2 Manuscripts and mysteries: heritage and destructions - the troublesome journey and laborious search of John Leland
- Alfred the Great - the case of the fenland forger
- the lost life of King Athelstan
- the story of a book. Part 3 Landscapes and people: the last bowl-turner of England
- Tinsley Wood
- a Devon house - to Domesday and beyond
- Peatling Magna - August 1265
- Jarrow and English history
- epilogue - an English family.
by "Nielsen BookData"
