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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: CHAPTER IV. Of WEARMOUTH AND JARROW?ST. EDMUND, ST. S WITHIN, ST. NEOT, AND ST. GUTHLAC. 1, UT there is another source of information upon Anglo- Saxon times which in no little degree fills up what regular history fails to supply?we mean biographies, chiefly of saints. Sometimes they are the only source whence information upon points of much moment can be derived. Not only are these interesting in a historical point of view, but they also abound with much curious information of another sort. In them we find descriptions of character for which we search in vain in the more dignified pages of the professed historian. References are made here to the manners and customs, the dress, amusements, and superstitions, the agriculture and political economy, the arts and sciences, the society and the literature of our ancestors; and it may be affirmed that there is scarcely a legend, however absurd, from which some information may not be gleaned. But although these biographies form so important a link in the chain connecting the past with the present, they abound in dross which must be separated from the true ore. For, be it remembered, these Middle-Age writers moved in fetters. Superstition held them in its iron grip. In the simplest concerns of life, where we look for natural causes to explain events, they dragged in the supernatural, and thought it impious to do otherwise. A murrain or a famine, with the Anglo-Saxon, was a direct judgment ofHeaven; while with the modern it would be referred, like commercial distress, to spots in the sun or some other physical phenomena. The author of Midsummer Night's Dream did not, like Bede, profess to be writing history when he ascribed the plague of waters to a quarrel between the wayward rulers of the fairy world. Still it is often hard t...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217949309
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 182
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217949304
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 336 gr


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