Anglo Saxon Literature, the Tower of Babel, and Charlemagne the Great
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2016-04
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Meritt, Shadow
Wood, Barry
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The following video contains the session entitled “Anglo Saxon Literature, the Tower of Babel, and Charlemagne the Great” from the 2016 Second International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Thought at Sam Houston State University. The papers presented in this session are “From Ruin to Redemption: King Alfred and the Tower of Babel Narrative” by Shadow Meritt, and “Charlemagne the Great and King Arthur: Literary Uses of Trojan Ancestry, Gospel Discipleship, and Christian Relic in Medieval and English Kingship Cycles” by Barry Wood.
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Old Testament narrative, Tower of Babel, Charlemagne the Great, King Arthur, English kingship cycles, medieval literature, medieval history