...As a third volume in the series Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World, this work illumines how an understanding of the impact of water on the daily lives of the people and the environment of the Anglo-Saxon world can inform reading and scholarship about the period. The text...

... records that survive provide insights as to how the Anglo-Saxons and sometimes, too, their predecessors, viewed their surroundings. Many place-names contain references to water and might help to provide a picture of the landscape and how it was used. In this period, fishing weirs and mills were increasing...

...This chapter investigates the relevance of a European model of secularization in Latin America and Africa. It examines the historically close relation of the church and the state in Western Europe and compares Anglo-Saxon secularity and French secularism. The chapter also discusses the cultural...

..., this discussion shows the complex debates about Latinity and Anglo-Saxonness in each of the three national contexts. criminology degeneration fin de siècle immigration Lombroso Cesare Pellicer Eustaquio raza latina decadence Latinity nationalism psychiatry Anglo Saxonism Bazalgette Léon Chevalier...

...This chapter examines the role of Anglo–Saxonism on the racialisation of the English Diaspora in America and Canada. It analyses how modern history professor Goldwin Smith's ideas on Anglo–Saxon superiority and race related to discourses of continental union and imperial federation. It compares...

...–ranging as Yorkshire societies in New Zealand and St George's societies in Montreal, to Anglo–Saxonism in the Atlantic World and the English Diaspora of the sixteenth century, this collection explores these and related key issues about the nature and character of English identity during the creation...

... of the Anglo-Saxon world, British Jewry perceived, as Stuart Cohen writes, an 79 ongoing battle between the forces of progress and reaction within the Gentile world. At this level the relationship between Jews and Gentiles had to be regarded as nothing less than the yardstick of the liberal progress...