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Article: Violence and Non-Violence in Anglo-Saxon England: AElfric's "Passion of St. Edmund".(Critical Essay)
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- Philological Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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The turn of the millennium draws the mind back a thousand years to the deeply troubled 990s in England, a paradoxical decade that enjoyed a high clerical culture even as the Vikings were ravaging the land. A newly reformed monastic system was flourishing under the king's favor, but this king would be remembered less fondly ever after as AEthelred "the Unready." As Simon Keynes says, "The internal and cultural affairs of the kingdom were able to prosper, but ... the external and military affairs of the kingdom were not conducted ... with comparable success."(1) That is an understatement: many of our surviving manuscripts and much Latin and Old English literature date from ...
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The Boston Globe;
November 15, 1987 ;
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... ... anniversary of the signing of the Anglo- Irish Agreement, an accord ... means of diluting the terrible violence that has plagued the North ... been a flop in the sense that violence, even before Enniskillen ... the sorry record of increased violence since November 1985? Quinn ...
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