The Cambridge Cultural History: Volume 1, Early Britain  19818

  • Prehistoric Britain
    • Stone Age to Iron Age  Jacquetta Hawkes[rtoc]
      • Farmers and artists of the New Stone Age (4000-1400BC)
      • New Grange and the Boyne passage graves
      • Religious ideas: fertility cults and their symbolism
      • Warrior aristocrats and craftsmen
      • Avebury and Stonehenge
      • The Celtic Iron Age and La Tène art[/rtoc]
  • Roman Britain
    • Part I: The Cultural and Social Setting  Peter Salway[rtoc]
      • The Roman Conquest
      • Arts and society in Roman Britain
      • The status of the arts
      • The Claudian triumph
      • The Imperial peace
      • From early to late empire
      • Church, state and the arts
      • The legacy of Constantine
      • Post-Imperial Britain[/rtoc]
    • Part II: Studies in the Individual Arts
      1. Architecture  Barry Cunliffe[rtoc]
        • Official and urban monuments of the first century
        • Fishbourne Palace and the south coast villas
        • Bath: the sanctuary of Sulis Minerva in the first and second centuries
        • Forum-basilica complexes in the second century
        • London: the monumental arch of the third century
        • Bath: the temple precinct in the third and fourth centuries[/rtoc]
      2. Verulamium: Social and Artistic Development  Sheppard Frere
      3. The Visual Arts and Crafts  Janet Huskinson[rtoc]
        • Representations of Mercury
        • Distance slabs from the Antonine Wall
        • Floor mosaics from Yorkshire
        • Silverware from late Roman Britain[/rtoc]
      4. Lullingstone Villa  Roger Ling
  • Early Medieval Britain
    • Part I: The Cultural and Social Setting  Richard Bailey[rtoc]
      • Anglo-Saxon Society
      • The settlement
      • The conversion
      • The Vikings
      • The Benedictine Reform movement
      • From Reform to Conquest
      • Destruction and loss[/rtoc]
    • Part II: Studies in the Individual Arts
      1. The Visual Arts and Crafts  Mildred Budny[rtoc]
        • Introduction: The nature and range of the evidence, Sources and influences
        • The Sutton Hoo ship0burial
        • The relics of St Cuthbert
        • St Dunstan: artists, craftsman and patron
        • The art of the book
          • The Insular Gospel books
          • The Codex Amiatinus
          • The ‘Canterbury School’
          • The ‘Winchester Style’
        • The Bayeux Tapesty and the arts of warfare
        • The arts of everyday life[/rtoc]
      2. Old English Literature  Michael Alexander[rtoc]
        • Bede and Anglo-Latin learning
        • Old English oral verse
        • The Dream of the Rood
        • Beowulf
        • Alfred’s wisdom
        • The harvest of literacy[/rtoc]
      3. Winchester: the Rise of an Early Capital  Martin Biddle
      4. The Arts of Late Celtic Britain (AD 600-900)  Isabel Henderson[rtoc]
      5. Architecture  Richard Gem[rtoc]
        • Anglo-Saxon settlers and Christianity (fifth century to c. 750)
        • Carolingian culture and the Vikings (c. 750-925)
        • Ottonian culture and monastic reform (c. 925-1050)
        • Romanesque architecture and the Norman Conquest (c. 1050-1100)
        • Some major surviving monuments[/rtoc]
      6. Music  Christopher Page[rtoc]
        • Vernacular and Latin song
        • String-playing
        • Professional musicians
        • Popular music
        • Liturgical music[/rtoc]
      7. The White Tower of London  R. Allen Brown

Topics covered by this book

  1. Dream of the Rood (poem) • p183
  2. Beowulf (poem) • p186
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