- 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
- 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]
- Verulamium: Social and Artistic Development Sheppard Frere
- 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]
- 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
- 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]
- 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]
- Winchester: the Rise of an Early Capital Martin Biddle
- The Arts of Late Celtic Britain (AD 600-900) Isabel Henderson[rtoc]
- 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]
- Music Christopher Page[rtoc]
- Vernacular and Latin song
- String-playing
- Professional musicians
- Popular music
- Liturgical music[/rtoc]
- The White Tower of London R. Allen Brown
Topics covered by this book
- Dream of the Rood (poem) • p183
- Beowulf (poem) • p186
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