We are moving away from the Mercian Supremacy to the emergence of the West Saxons and their special relationship with the Archbishops of Canterbury we've just been hearing about. The people with the document took the document, then, to Wilton in Wiltshire in the kingdom of the West Saxons, and there it was confirmed by King Ecgberht and his son King
They always looked at the place first. The Archbishop of Canterbury said, well, you won't be married if you don't say "I obey." She said, well, I'm not going to say it.
So, a good place to start would be where you start. You grew up in Canterbury, in the west of Ireland, with a very big family. Gemma: Yeah, yeah. How -- that surely must have had some influence on you even getting into music or the kind of music you immerse yourself in.
And this man whose name was Alfred-- it's not King Alfred, but the Alderman Alfred-- ransomed these books and brought them and gave them to the church at Canterbury in order that Canterbury thereafter might remember himself, and his wife, and his daughter in their prayers in perpetuity as a sort of thanks for the rescuing of the word of God in this manuscript.
And then it's taken after that to a church council, and you can see there that the bishops of the whole country also acknowledge this agreement between Canterbury and Wessex. So that's in effect-- it's 838-- it's symbolic of this great turn which establishes the special relationship between Canterbury
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What one has to do is imagine that on the front of this charter there is a very significant text marking the agreement of-- marking the making of an agreement between the Church of Canterbury and the Kings of the West Saxons. We're in the early part of the ninth century.
But at the front of it, you have this portrait of King Edgar donating the charter-- you can see it in his hand there-- And it was a manuscript that came to Canterbury, and a copy was made of it.
It's a very modern obsession that halal and Haram must become legal and illegal. If you're are a sinner-- and we're all sinners as the Archbishop of Canterbury is keen to point out. If you're a sinner, you're not just a sinner.
I wanted us to be able to do both. I wanted us to be able to work with the Archbishop of Canterbury. My three clients, Archbishop of Canterbury, Premier League footballers, and security services.
I wanted us to be able to work with the Archbishop of Canterbury. My three clients, Archbishop of Canterbury, Premier League footballers, and security services. You know, my ability to navigate in those three spaces is absolutely crucial to my ability to do my job.
environmental impact of their supply chain. So they created the environmental um design tool which basically opens up B Remedy started and B Remedy was started by a guy called Blake Canterbury. Very simple idea. He just goes,
also acknowledge this agreement between Canterbury and Wessex. So that's in effect-- it's 838-- it's symbolic of this great turn which establishes the special relationship between Canterbury and Wessex and then leads to the rise of Wessex in the later ninth century and to everything else that came thereafter,
They always looked at the place first. She got married. She completely kind of ignored the Archbishop of Canterbury.
young doctor in a movie they were making and also being the doctor for the rock concerts that the movie was about so it was the Jefferson Airplane the Grateful Dead Jeth rotol we ended up with a concert for Pink Floyd in Canterbury in England and I was the doc for that uh my first day on the movie Caravan I met this
introduce Dennis Dutton who's a professor of Aesthetics and philosophy of art at University of Canterbury in New Zealand and he founds and edits the highly successful Johns Hopkins University Press Journal on philosophy and literature and he also conceives and
Right, right. I think it's mostly-- I mean, they-- in the show, she's the only woman who's among them. That would be Elayne, because she was the only woman among the group of guys that went to Canter 's and all that. That's all fairly accurate, although she's not at all like Elayne.
I wonder why. Because one of the things I most enjoy about my life at Google is having the chance to interview some people. We've had amazing people in before, whether it's Richard Dawkins, Dame Stephanie Shirley, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Were you there for that?
in the exhibition. We have this manuscript, not an Anglo-Saxon manuscript. This is the "Utrecht Psalter," "Book of the Psalms," made in the first half of the 9th century on the continent and brought to Canterbury, where it was used as a model for other manuscripts, and it has these fantastic cartoon-like strips, decoration, illustration of what is going on in the Psalms.
It says quite a lot about Alfred's sense of his own importance that he goes alongside the name of Christ. But as they read out this text, if you like, the memory of these three people, these benefactors to the community at Canterbury who saved this book from the Vikings, is sort of hoovered up in the prayers that go with the community every time this book is used and read
But that's because their brain isn't quite as goal directed as the adult's is. So in terms of website design for example, if I put you on the home page of the University of Canterbury's website. And I say I want you to find me somewhere in this website a map of the campus that shows the computer science
Aisha Tyler: Um, hum. know about the Tabard. One person knows about the Tabard. OK. So, yes, the one from Canterbury Tales. There was a fraternity, I'm telling you all about stuff you didn't ask about.
And in the beginning of -- here's we're in the point of view of Uma, who is a graduate student, and she studies literature at the university, and she's brought her book which she's been studying The Canterbury Tales, which as you probably know, is a story set in a very different time, but tales within tales. And she's reading that.