East Anglia reaching as far as Ely and Cambridge was one of the wealthiest areas of Anglo-Saxon England, and one of the places most affected by sea-borne Vikings due to its long coastline. The course will look at the first Viking Age in East Anglia and patterns of settlement, trade and the setting up of towns helped by the many recent metal-detected finds. The course will also look at Viking beliefs and conversion, Viking art, style and fashion and how this combined with Anglo-Saxon art, sculpture and metalwork. The second Viking Age under King Cnut brought about a peace dividend, the founding or re-founding of several famous abbeys in our part of the world, who engaged in digging waterways long before the Dutch in c.17th and took part in a monastic and artistic revival - the last hurrah of the Anglo-Saxons.
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