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In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.
Frank Stenton describes this omission as " a scholar's dislike of the indefinite "; traditional material that could not be dated or used for the Bede's didactic purposes had no interest for him.
The 20th-century historian Frank Stenton said of the Anglo-Saxon chronicler that " his inaccuracy is more than compensated by his preservation of the English title applied to these outstanding kings ".
* Stenton, Frank M. ( 1971 ).
* Stenton, Sir Frank M. Anglo-Saxon England.
Harold himself is somewhat obscure ; the historian Frank Stenton considered it probable that his mother Ælfgifu was " the real ruler of England " for part or all of his reign.
The life of Oswald portrays Edward as an unstable young man who, according to Frank Stenton: " had offended many important persons by his intolerable violence of speech and behavior.
* Sir Frank Stenton.
To Frank Stenton, " Æthelwulf seems to have been a religious and unambitious man, for whom engagement in war and politics was an unwelcome consequence of rank.
* Stenton, Sir Frank M. Anglo-Saxon England Third Edition.
* Stenton, Frank Merry.
* Types of Manorial Structure in the Northern Danelaw, Frank M. Stenton, London, 1910.
* Stenton, Sir Frank, Anglo-Saxon England.
The debate caught the imagination of the popular press when Professor Smyth's book was published, fuelled by the former University of Kent historian's claim that the Cambridge ASNAC department knew Asser's life was a fake, but that they were happy to keep the myth going in order to avoid discrediting previous eminent historians from their university such as Frank Stenton and Dorothy Whitelock.
R. L. Poole ( Studies in Chronology and History, 1934 ) put forward the theory that Bede began his year in September, and consequently November 655 would actually fall in 654 ; Frank Stenton also dated events accordingly in his Anglo-Saxon England ( 1943 ).< sup > 1 </ sup > Others have accepted Bede's given dates as meaning what they appear to mean, considering Bede's year to have begun on 25 December or 1 January ( see S. Wood, 1983: " Bede's Northumbrian dates again "
* Stenton, Sir Frank, Anglo-Saxon England.
The 20th century historian Frank Stenton wrote that " the continuous history of Northumbria, and indeed of England, begins with the reign of Æthelfrith ", and that " he was the real founder of the historic Northumbrian kingdom, and he was remembered as the first great leader who had arisen among the northern Angles.
* Stenton, Frank Merry.
" In Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England, being the Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton, ed.
The historian Frank Stenton felt that his " whole career shows that he was essentially a politician ".
* Stenton, Sir Frank, Anglo-Saxon England.
With regard to Aldfrið, Frank Stenton referred to the witness list for an Anglo-Saxon charter which includes an " Ealfrid rex ", and dated its writing to some time between the years 787 and 796.
In the view of Frank Stenton, she was probably the real ruler of England for part, if not the whole, of his reign.
* Stenton, Frank.

Frank and eminent
Natural gas public utility companies would be given the right of eminent domain, under a bill by Sen. Frank Owen 3, of El Paso, to acquire sites for underground storage reservoirs for gas.
Evidence assembled by Frank A. Pattie suggests that Mesmer plagiarized his dissertation from a work by Richard Mead, an eminent English physician and Newton's friend.
The name Baa ‘ li-maanzer was interpreted by eminent philologists such as Frank Moore Cross as referring to Baal-Eser II / Balazeros, grandfather of Pygmalion.
Housman and Thomas Moore, publisher Andrew Melrose, eminent theatre architect Frank Matcham, soviet communist apologists William Peyton Coates and Zelda Coates.
" Other outstanding examples of his portraits include The Agnew Clinic ( 1889 ), Eakins ' most important commission and largest painting, which depicted another eminent American surgeon, Dr. David Hayes Agnew, performing a mastectomy ; The Dean's Roll Call ( 1899 ), featuring Dr. James W. Holland, and Professor Leslie W. Miller ( 1901 ), portraits of educators standing as if addressing an audience ; a portrait of Frank Hamilton Cushing ( ca.
Since then it has been endowed with papers from other political figures including former Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, as well as former Leader of the Opposition Neil Kinnock, alongside those of eminent scientists and engineers, including Reginald Victor Jones, Rosalind Franklin and Sir Frank Whittle.
It was discovered in December 1929 by the Byrd AE geological party under Laurence Gould, and named by him for Frank Leverett, eminent geologist at the University of Michigan and authority on glacial geology of the central United States.
* Frank Newby, eminent structural engineer

Frank and Anglo-Saxon
* Stenton, Sir Frank, Anglo-Saxon England The Oxford History of England, Clarendon Press, 1962
* Stenton, Sir Frank M. Anglo-Saxon England ; 3rd ed.
Sir Frank Merry Stenton ( 17 May 1880 – 15 September 1967 ) was a 20th century historian of Anglo-Saxon England, and president of the Royal Historical Society ( 1937-1945 ).
His wife, Doris Mary Stenton, wrote a preface to the third edition of Anglo-Saxon England, published after his death, and edited Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England Being the Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton, published in 1970.
* Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, 3rd edition, ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971 ), p257
* Volume II: Anglo-Saxon England, c550 – 1087 — Sir Frank Stenton ( 1943 )
* Stenton, Frank M., Anglo-Saxon England ( 3rd edn.
There are multiple theories of the origin of Leving ( Anglo-Saxon, Fleming, Frank, Norman, and even Hungarian ).

Frank and historian
Popular historian Frank McLynn maintains a counter-revisionist perspective on John, arguing that the king's modern reputation amongst historians is " bizarre ", and that as a monarch John " fails almost all those that can be legitimately set ".
The character of the conflict in England gradually began to shift ; as historian Frank Barlow suggests, by the late 1140s " the civil war was over ", barring the occasional outbreak of fighting.
In a 2008 essay published in Harper's Magazine, historian Thomas Frank linked the Times to the modern American conservative movement, saying:
Other films shot in widescreen were the musical Happy Days ( 1929 ) which premiered at the Roxy Theater, New York City, on February 13, 1930, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell and a 12 year old Betty Grable as a chorus girl ; Song o ’ My Heart, a musical feature starring Irish tenor John McCormack and directed by Frank Borzage ( Seventh Heaven, A Farewell to Arms ), which was shipped from the labs on March 17, 1930, but never released and may no longer survive, according to film historian Miles Kreuger ( the 35mm version, however, debuted in New York on March 11, 1930 ); and the western The Big Trail ( 1930 ) starring John Wayne and Tyrone Power, Sr. which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on October 2, 1930, all of which were also made in the 70mm Fox Grandeur process.
United States Navy historian Frank Chadwick believed that de Grasse could have thwarted the British fleet simply by staying put ; his fleet's size would have been sufficient to impede any attempt by Graves to force a passage through his position.
The historian Frank Barlow speculates that it may have been at Bruges in 1039.
The historian Frank Barlow describes Leofric as " an able administrator and a progressive force " and one who " exemplifies the foreign prelate at his best ".
The character of the conflict in England gradually began to shift ; as historian Frank Barlow suggests, by the late 1140s " the civil war was over ", barring the occasional outbreak of fighting.
* Frank Popper, art historian
As a matter of fact, according to historian Frank Baker, " by 1820, there were 21, 000 Baptists, 20, 000 Methodists, but only 2, 700 Presbyterians in Kentucky.
According to the historian Frank Dikötter, " The delusive myth of a Chinese antiquity that abandoned racial standards in favour of a concept of cultural universalism in which all barbarians could ultimately participate has understandably attracted some modern scholars.
* Frank McLynn, historian and biographer
In the view of the historian Frank Barlow, he was probably the uncle of Godwin of Wessex.
Another historian, Frank Barlow, writing in 1979, felt that the fact that some of the English sources do not name who consecrated Harold " tip ( s ) the balance in favour of Stigand ".
However, the historian Frank Barlow felt that " he was a man of cultured tastes, a patron of the arts who was generous to the monasteries which he held ".
George Akropolites, the contemporary 13th century Greek historian, notes that Henry " though a Frank by birth, behaved graciously to the Romans who were natives of the city of Constantine, and ranked many of them among his magnates, others among his soldiers, while the common populace he treated as his own people.
The modern historian Frank Barlow speculates that Theobald may have been a distant relative of his successor as archbishop, Thomas Becket, as Becket's family came from the same part of Normandy.
" Frank Barlow, another historian, calls him a " blameless mediocrity ".
Frank Barlow, a historian, describes him as a " good scholar and a monk of blameless life ".
The historian Frank Barlow called the cathedral " one of the architectural jewels of western Christendom ".

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