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Anglo-Saxonism And Victorian Archaeology: William Wylie’S Fairford Graves, Howard M. R. Williams Jan 2008

Anglo-Saxonism And Victorian Archaeology: William Wylie’S Fairford Graves, Howard M. R. Williams

Howard M. R. Williams

William Wylie’s Fairford Graves is prominent among a series of publications dating from the mid-nineteenth century reporting the discovery of early medieval cemeteries and defining their national and racial significance for English history. This paper discusses interpretative themes in Wylie’s text and images. It is argued that Fairford Graves was more than a set of descriptive observations upon the excavations and finds. The paper shows how Fairford Graves was a statement about Wylie’s identity as well as the imagined Teutonic origins of the English. Seen in this light, the investigation, interpretation and publication of the early medieval burials from Fairford …

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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, No. 3, Wasyl O. Luciw, George Wynnysky, Donald M. Hines, Lester Breininger, Louis Winkler, Mac E. Barrick, C. Lee Hopple, Friedrich Krebs Apr 1972

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, No. 3, Wasyl O. Luciw, George Wynnysky, Donald M. Hines, Lester Breininger, Louis Winkler, Mac E. Barrick, C. Lee Hopple, Friedrich Krebs

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Ukrainian Pysanka and Other Decorated Easter Eggs in Pennsylvania
• The Development of Folklife Research in the United Kingdom
• Just a Bone
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology: Almanacs
• Central Pennsylvania Fishing Spears
• Spatial Development of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Plain Dutch Community to 1970: Part II
• 18th-Century Emigrants from the Palatinate, Lower Alsace, and Rheinhessen
• Tobacco and Tobacco Culture: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 23

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Letter From Raymond E. Hollenbach To Alfred L. Shoemaker, December 10, 1956, Raymond E. Hollenbach Dec 1956

Letter From Raymond E. Hollenbach To Alfred L. Shoemaker, December 10, 1956, Raymond E. Hollenbach

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed letter from Raymond E. Hollenbach addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated December 10, 1956. Within, Hollenbach provides information from old account books of William Krumm and his son, detailing the prices received for pig's bristles. He also notes that bones were traded and made into fertilizer.

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Letter From Linus L. Francis To Alfred L. Shoemaker, December 10, 1956, Linus L. Francis Dec 1956

Letter From Linus L. Francis To Alfred L. Shoemaker, December 10, 1956, Linus L. Francis

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed letter from Linus L. Francis addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated December 10, 1956. Within, Francis relates a story about selling bones to a man named Moses Brownmiller in Hamburg. He also inquires about a Bible verse that can stop nose bleeds.

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Letter From Harry M. Gehris To Alfred L. Shoemaker, December 10, 1956, Harry M. Gehris Dec 1956

Letter From Harry M. Gehris To Alfred L. Shoemaker, December 10, 1956, Harry M. Gehris

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from Harry M. Gehris addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated December 10, 1956. Within, Gehris details his trading of bones to a peddler during his youth.

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Letter From Paul W. Bond To Alfred L. Shoemaker, March 15, 1954, Paul W. Bond Mar 1954

Letter From Paul W. Bond To Alfred L. Shoemaker, March 15, 1954, Paul W. Bond

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from Paul W. Bond addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated March 15, 1954. Within, Bond provides an answer posed by Shoemaker's television program regarding a bone mill and describes how his father used bones in cooking.

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