title: Anglo-Saxon History: Basic Readings (Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England)
author: David A.E. Pelteret
description: Pelteret...succeeds very well. This is an easy way for students to catch the flow of recent scholarship and for budget-bound libraries to sample specialized collections.<br /><b>Choice</b>
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  **IMAGINING THE**
  
  
  **ANGLO-SAXON PAST**
  
  
  **The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism and Anglo-Saxon** **Trial by Jury**
  
  
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  **Edited by Eric Gerald Stanley**
  
  
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  THE ANGLO-SAXON PAST
  
  
  THE SEARCH FOR
  
  
  ANGLO-SAXON PAGANISM
  
  
  AND
  
  
  ANGLO-SAXON TRIAL BY JURY
  
  
  ERIC STANLEY has an international reputation as a leading Anglo-Saxonist, and
  his perceptive and original contributions to the ®eld continue to offer
  valuable correctives to prevailing views and to show how scholarly
  predilection can easily become prejudice and orthodoxy. The two issues under
  scrutiny in this book are the tendency among some writers to exalt whatever is
  primitive and supposedly pagan or crypto-pagan in the surviving Old English
  texts of the early Christian Middle Ages (for example, Tolkien on monsters or
  Jacob Grimm on everything Germanic), and the idealism of some advocates of
  political and legal reform that leads th