Saxons

foot in the day that they were conferred although it was a great feast day, if he could have foreseen the design of the pope.” Charlemagne was given the title of emperor, but this imperium did not survive a lot in 1936 it passed to the lands of the Saxons and the Holy Roman Empire would remain a German institution until it’s end. He ruled all of the Christian provinces except the British isles that had once been part of the roman empire. He was known as the Church Protector. His major…

investiture) and the ostracizing of some of the members of Henry’s council, which remained a dead letter in the eyes of Henry. However, faced with the Saxon uprising, the Emperor had no choice but to bow to the will of the Pope. His penance took place in Nuremberg. Nonetheless, the armistice did not last long, for the Emperor, having defeated the Saxons in June 1075, went about reasserting his authority all over Northern Italy, to which the Pope responded with a letter threatening to strip…

INTRODUCTION Many historians argue Charlemagne was the greatest uniting force of Europe since the Roman Empire under the “Five Good Emperors” (Machiavelli Ch. 10)1. My primary intent of this essay is to examine the rule of Charlemagne and why he is often acknowledged as the “Father of Europe”. With this goal in mind, I have studied the works of Rosamond McKitterick, Roger Collins, Alessandro Barbero, and Heinrich Fichtenau. Through these authors and historians I have gained insight into…

Sutton Hoo is the name of a burial site of an Anglo-Saxon king. It is also one of the most important findings in Anglo-Saxon history that helped archaeologists further comprehend the Anglo-Saxon’s. Sutton Hoo is near the town of Woodbridge, England. The area of Sutton Hoo has allegedly been inhabited since as early as 3000 B.C. It was rediscovered back in 1938 and was initially thought to contain 13 burial mounds but later, 5 more were discovered. Most of the burial mounds had been ransacked…

Many characteristics of an epic and of heroic tradition from Anglo-Saxon culture support that Beowulf is indeed an epic written in the heroic tradition of the Anglo-Saxon culture. Honor, bravery, and a sense of duty are all characteristics of a hero. Anglo-Saxons define a hero as usually being a king or thane who were at the higher end of the chain with the ability to run at danger with no fear of self-harm, having good leadership qualities, and being capable of providing for their people a…

During the turn of the century, the creation of the superior white race reinforced the contract between the Africans as well as the Natives and the Angelo-Saxons. As the color lines of race were constructed, Angelo-Saxons assured themselves as the superior race and their qualities, skin-color, and religious preference drew secular racism. Angelo-Saxons turned their efforts to religious preferences. Aryans defined Christianity to be the highest order next God and the Jewish community was seen as…

Though Beowulf could be read as an elegy of a failing society, the counterargument that title character whispers against his enemy’s nihilism while in John Gardner’s 1971 novel Grendel is actually an ideology originally implicit in the anonymous Anglo-Saxon epic poem, and this is important to…

Achilles and Beowulf’s hero’s journey and value of their culture Archetypal heroes have been seen in many stories and tales such as Star Wars, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Spiderman, Shazam!, and even Eastern stories such as Dragon Ball Z, and One Piece. But the idea that is the most renowned is Beowulf and The Iliad written by Homer. Beowulf features the protagonist Beowulf, who goes through the trials and tribulations of an archetypal hero. The Iliad features a plethora of characters but…

The poem describes Grendel as a threat to the Anglo-Saxons when stating that “times were pleasant for the people there / until finally one, a fiend out of hell, / began to work his evil in the world” (99-101). This excerpt indicates that the Danes view Grendel as a threat to their society. They feel that…

were the two keys to maintaining peace in the midst of conflict. This essay will explore the relationship between peaceweaving Queens and treasure in the poem Beowulf, in turn revealing the extent to which the two affect the social order of Anglo-Saxon culture.…