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Front Cover, A Short History of the English People Green buckram. My copy is bound in four separate volumes. |
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Frontispiece: Map of England This 1902 map shows an England of over 100 years ago. It is attributed to Stanford’s Geographical Establishment. |
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Title Page, A Short History of the English People A Short History of the English People [more...] |
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Coin of Æthelstan King Æthelstan ruled England from A.D. 924 to 940. This coin is inscribed “ÆĐELSTANRE” on one side and possibly “BIORNEARDMOLONDCI” on the other. There is also a somewhat crude likeness of the king. [more...] |
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Figure of Christ with Heathen Symbols. From barrow of Gorm and Thyra, Jutland. |
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Silver Cup. From barrow of Gorm and Thyra, Jutland. |
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A Banquet A medieval feast! Two people are seated behind a table laden with food; at either side a person (a servant or slave perhaps) kneels and hands food to one of the seated figures. Between the two seated figures (perhaps a king and queen) another person holds a goblet, or perhaps a flask of wine; whether this person is a servant [...] [more...] |
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Arches of Cloister of S. Aubin’s Abbey, Angers The Abbey of S. Aubin, founded in Merovingian times, seems to have been rebuilt by Geoffrey Greygown and Fulk the Black. “Only one huge tower remains, but fragments of it are still to be seen embedded in the buildings of the Preéfecture—above all a Romanesque arcade, fretted with tangled imagery and apocalyptic figures of the richest work of the [...] [more...] |
