[Regia-NA] Depressed Anglo-Saxons?

[marfield66 at sympatico.ca]

How about Arthur 'Two-Sheds' Jackson ??
Cheers
Martin
> 
> From: "J K Siddorn" <kim.siddorn at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Date: 2004/06/08 Tue AM 06:25:25 EST
> To: "list-Regia-NA" <list-regia-na at lig.net>
> Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] Depressed Anglo-Saxons?
> 
> Hi - and welcome to the Regia list ;o))
> 
> Please, pretty please, could you use you modern name on this medium. Taken names are fine in context, but for folk
> separated by thousands of miles of empty air, Lord Evenlode of the Lesser Margins is a very poor substitute for Arthur
> Phillips of Maryland!
> 
> Thanks......
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kim Siddorn,
> Regia Anglorum
> 
> This e-mail is confidential, legally privileged and - unless otherwise stated in the message body - is intended for the
> sole attention of the addressee. If you are not this person, please do not read, save, re-transmit or print the
> information it contains. Views expressed herein may or may not be the established policy of Regia Anglorum. Unless
> otherwise expressly agreed in writing, nothing stated in this communication shall be legally binding.
> 
> Daily updated anti-virus software was used in the generation of this e-mail and any attachments, but it is the
> responsibility of the recipient to ensure that their incoming mail is virus free.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <HearthstoneArts at aol.com>
> To: <list-regia-na at lig.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 3:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] Depressed Anglo-Saxons?
> 
> 
> > In a message dated 6/7/2004 2:15:32 PM Central Daylight Time,
> > jmichal2 at yahoo.com writes:
> >
> > > Or have any of you come across books that
> > > give historically sound but less gloomy pictures of
> > > Anglo-Saxon culture?
> >
> > "A History of Britian," by Simon Shama, Vol. I, Hyperion, 2000, has several
> > chapters that give a picture of a vibrant, thriving, stablizing AS culture
> > emerging from the more chaotic period just after the Roman forces left for good.
> > It discusses the culture up through the conquest in 1066 and notes:
> >
> > "Late Anglo-Saxon England was politically volatile but institutionally
> > stable. Beyond the mayhem at court and the bloodshed of the battlefield, churches
> > were being built, cases were being heard in court, merchandise was being
> > produced and marketed and a strong and copious coinage was being minted. And from the
> > few fragmentary survivals we can see that this was also a culture of great
> > sophistication and versatility. The stunning ivories, dazzlingly coloured
> > Psalters, intensely emotional Passion scenes, vividly animated birds and beasts,
> > coming from the great ecclesiastical powerhouses of Winchester and Canterbury,
> > are the equal of the best work to be found anywhere in Christian Europe." (pg.
> > 70-71)
> >
> > The book "The Year 1000," by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger, Publishers:
> > Little, Brown and Co., 1999, is also very good. It covers a lot of subjects with
> > good notations and references. Definitely not all "doom and gloom."
> >
> > Oh, by the way, new to the list. Very interested in Regia NA. Love research.
> > Have my own business doing Celtic knotwork (and other things) on pottery. Most
> > of it based on illuminated manuscripts (at least that's where we started).
> > Have a wife and two teenage kids (boy and girl).
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Mike -- do we use our own names or persona names on the list? Just curious.
> >
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> > _______________________________________________
> > list-Regia-NA site list
> > list-Regia-NA at lig.net
> > http://lig.net/mailman/listinfo/list-regia-na
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> list-Regia-NA site list
> list-Regia-NA at lig.net
> http://lig.net/mailman/listinfo/list-regia-na
>