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Paperback, [EAN: 9781235793110], General Books LLC, General Books LLC, Book, [PU: General Books LLC], General Books LLC, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purch… Plus…

Paperback, [EAN: 9781235793110], General Books LLC, General Books LLC, Book, [PU: General Books LLC], General Books LLC, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1852 Excerpt: ... 203 ANGLO-SAXON AND FRANKISH REMAINS. PLATES XLIX TO I/VIII. In the present chapter, I proceed to draw attention (as promised in p. 170) to discoveries of Frankish sepulchral remains in France and Germany, and at the same time to point-out some remarkable and hitherto unnoticed features of resemblance between them and contemporaneous antiquities found in England. It is necessary that these remains should be studied together, for, belonging to the same period, and to nations and tribes very closely allied by origin and geographical position, they present so close a similitude, that they mutually contribute to illustrate and explain each other. They are of that dark epoch which immediately followed the extinction of the Roman power in Gaul and Britain, when great events occurred, changing the government of these countries and altering the entire face of society, without being chronicled by historians in whose narratives we can repose full confidence. The advent of Jutes, Angles, and the other kindred tribes commonly known by the general term Saxons, to Britain, and the irruption of the peoples north of the Rhine, called Franks, into Gaul, come entirely within the times of paganism; and it is to its influence we of the present day are enabled, from their graves, to collect some facts which throw a light on their habits and customs, and give a considerable insight into the state of the arts, such as can be gained from no other source of inquiry. In the contents of these graves and their arrangement, a close adherence to the Roman practices may be noticed; so much alike are they in many instances that they have frequently been ascribed to that people, and, for less weighty reasons, as frequently to the Celts. In the ornaments, in the weapons, in the urns, and ot..., 1000, Subjects, 1, Arts & Photography, 2, Biographies & Memoirs, 3, Business & Money, 3248857011, Calendars, 4, Children's Books, 12290, Christian Books & Bibles, 4366, Comics & Graphic Novels, 5, Computers & Technology, 6, Cookbooks, Food & Wine, 48, Crafts, Hobbies & Home, 8975347011, Education & Teaching, 173507, Engineering & Transportation, 301889, Gay & Lesbian, 10, Health, Fitness & Dieting, 9, History, 86, Humor & Entertainment, 10777, Law, 17, Literature & Fiction, 173514, Medical Books, 18, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, 20, Parenting & Relationships, 3377866011, Politics & Social Sciences, 21, Reference, 22, Religion & Spirituality, 23, Romance, 75, Science & Math, 25, Science Fiction & Fantasy, 4736, Self-Help, 26, Sports & Outdoors, 28, Teen & Young Adult, 27, Travel, 283155, Books<