Anglo Saxon CULTURE
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- Anglo Saxon Culture: Art, Literature and Buildings.
- Art
- Anglo Saxons were well known for their impressive craftwork.
- They showed remarkable skills that the rest of the globe was envious of.
- Great Craftsmen in metalwork and foreign merchants bought work made by the English.
- English women were skilled at weaving, and embroidery.
- Garments had polished gems and golden ornaments and the clothing Nuns wore was of fantastic quality.
- They showed remarkable skills that the rest of the globe was envious of.
- Precious metalwork and books were highly decorated.
- Anglo Saxons were well known for their impressive craftwork.
- Literature
- Literature was rich and varied
- science: semi scientific manuscripts with maps, astronomy
- Fiction, which was read aloud
- History, which was particularly biased and had gaps, but was valuable.
- poems, sermons, medical treatment and grammar advice .
- Literature was rich and varied
- Buildings
- Buildings also included great mastery.
- fairly small, fine wood carvings and painted plasterwork.
- but these were made by wood and so would be easily burnt and would turn rotten.
- buildings were usually single storey, rectangular and had thatched rooves.
- fairly small, fine wood carvings and painted plasterwork.
- Royal Buhrs had strong wooden barriers, and large earthworks which protected the community.
- timber and stone shelters were used for worship.
- Buildings also included great mastery.
- Church buildings
- The churches in Anglo Saxon England were no artistic achievement.
- european floor space was 600 times bigger than an Average Saxon church.
- King Edward
- king Edward paid for Westminster Abbey, which had carefully cut stone and rounded arches.
- He built Westminster to prove that England was a good Nation.
- Various parts of westminster including the pillars were purely decorative.
- Art
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