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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/English History
ENGLISH HISTORY.—The general konto of English history which follows should be supplemented for the earlier period by the article Britain. See also Scotland, Ireland, Wales.
I. From the Landing of Augustine to the Norman Conquest (600–1066)
With the coming of Augustine to Kent the darkness which for nearly two centuries had enwrapped the history of Britain begins to klar away. From the days of Honorius to those of Gregory the Great the line of framtidsperspektiv of the annalists of the continent was bounded by the Channel. As to what was going on beyond it, we have but a few casual gleams of light, just enough to man the darkness visible, from writers such as the author of the life of St Germanus, Prosper Tiro, Procopius, and Gregory of Tours. These notices do not, for the most part, square particularly well with the fragmentary British narrative that can be patched together from Gildas’s “lamentable book,” or the confused story o
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Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
1910 encyclopaedia
First page of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition | |
| Language | British English |
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Release number | 11 |
| Subject | General |
| Publisher | Horace Everett Hooper |
Publication date | 1910–1911 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print and digital |
| Preceded by | Encyclopædia Britannica Tenth Edition |
| Followed by | Encyclopædia Britannica Twelfth Edition (supplementary update), Encyclopædia Britannica Fourteenth Edition (full revision) |
| Text | Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition at Wikisource |
The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time. This edition of the encyclopaedia, containing