Summer School 2010: The Anglo-Saxons
The Rockford Institute, publisher of Chronicles, presents the Thirteenth Annual Summer School:
Arthur and Alfred: The Anglo-Saxons
Rockford, Illinois • July 6-11, 2010
Theme
Only a few Americans know that Hengist and Horsa were the legendary chiefs who led the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain, but Thomas Jefferson wanted to put the pair on the Great Seal of the United States. Like many Americans and their English forebears, Jefferson believed that the American love of liberty can be traced directly back to the free Anglo-Saxon farmers, who owned their own land, defended their families and countrymen in battle, and met in local courts and assemblies to enforce the law and make collective decisions. If it sounds like America in 1790, that is because these Anglo-Saxon customs and traditions were never fully suppressed by the Norman Conquest.
[To enroll, call Cindy Link at (800) 383-0680.]
For Americans today, living under a harsher regime than William the Conqueror ever dreamed of imposing, Anglo-Saxon England represents not only the political patrimony that has been taken form us, but also a thrilling place of brave warriors, stirring epic poetry, and heroic missionaries and scholars who transformed a nation of wild barbarians into civilized Christians who never forgot how to fight.
Read Beowulf in the context of the people who gave birth to this first masterpiece of English, follow Bede’s brilliant account of the Church in England, and examine up-close the institutions of a free people that have set an enduring pattern for all of us who value liberty and understand that the Christian life properly lived is the greatest adventure of all.
Faculty
Faculty includes Dr. Thomas Fleming, editor of Chronicles, and special guests Dr. Frank Brownlow, chairman of the English Department at Mount Holyoke College, Michael McMahon, author of Saints: The Art, the History, the Inspiration, and Dr. James Patrick, chancellor of the College of St. Thomas More in Ft. Worth, Texas.
[To enroll, call Cindy Link at (800) 383-0680.]
Accommodations
Beautiful riverfront accommodations at Rockford’s premier hotel: Cliffbreakers River Suites Hotel
Registration
Registration is limited and is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Prices are per student and do not include books on the reading list. Full Registration includes all lectures and events, plus five nights’ lodging at Cliffbreakers with breakfast, daily dinner. For more information, or to inquire about scholarships for full-time students and private-school teachers, contact Christopher Check at (815) 964-5811.
Full Registration
Double Occupancy $795.00 ea
Single Occupancy $895.00 ea
Commuter Registration
Lectures Only $395.00 ea
Plus Dinner $495.00 ea
[To enroll, call Cindy Link at (800) 383-0680.]
TRI Events :: Apr.12.2010 :: SS 2010, Summer School :: 3 Comments »
I am interested to learn more about the syllabus for this summer course. Specifically, I see that Arthur is mentioned in the title, but not in the course description. Will medieval literature about King Arthur also be dealt with in this course?
I’m a founder of the libertarian movement with a strong sense of tradition. There is within the rapidly growing Pagan movement, a real thirst to go to our roots. This is especially true of Asatru. or Norse Paganism, which I am a member of. This is a non-Nazi, and non racist group that I’m with and has many conservatives and many with it, but is not political. I’m looking for others within your group who would communicate with me on the matters of combining spirituality, culture and liberty with its roots. I’m also looking for info on the matters covered in this conference as I cannot attend due to financial reasons. So please send links to papers, books, articles and video your presenters. If you have an ad that I can send a link to, I’ll be happy to post in relevant chat rooms. Try and do some outreach and send something Asatru Folk Assembly, Steve McNallen, and he might assist you in reaching our tribe. Thank you.
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The course description is interesting, but also rather confusing to me as a historian. The Angles, Saxons and other Germanic tribes which invaded England in the early Middle Ages were not Christian at all, and the historical Arthur (from the little we know about him) was most certainly not one of them. Arthur was a Romano-Celtic military leader who, as best we can tell, defended the remnants of Celtic Christian civilization against the advances of the pagan Anglo-Saxons. The “England” which came into being in the wake of these invasions had to be evangelized anew through the efforts of St. Augustine of Canterbury, who was sent from Rome by Pope Gregory the Great. I hope and pray that the course will be more illuminating than the course description.