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Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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Several unusual fields of study are extensively explored in this volume: a distinctive politico-religious cult, penitentials, inscriptions, the Sutton Hoo whetstone and medical knowledge; while treatments of more 'standard' subjects like late Anglo-Saxon law, King Alfred's Boethius and Beowulf, …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
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Four very different kinds of Anglo-Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume: traditions, learned and oral, about the settlement of the country, study of foreign-language grammar, interest in exotic jewels as reflections of the glory of God, and a mainly rational attitude to medicine. Publication …
Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2007
606 kr
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The contents of this first volume typify the range of interests that will be covered throughout the series. The topics treated include the first two centuries of Christianity in East Anglia; geographical knowledge in King Alfred's court; the part played by Bishop 'thelwold's school at Winchester in …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Martin Biddle, Julian Brown m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
574 kr
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Among topics covered in this volume, two important authorship questions are settled; the discovery of a major Northumbrian settlement is reported; the conceptions of Old English literature which have prevailed during the last three hundred years are paraded for critical inspection and substantial …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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Among the diverse topics covered in this volume is a pioneer account of a unique group of Anglo-Saxon embroideries preserved on the continent and the publication of a previously unknown charter. Themes illuminated are as varied as the status of women, early urban history, the nature of medical …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
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Was Old English metre really based on stress and rhythm? Do we really know that a particular glossed manuscript of a Latin curriculum author was used in an Anglo-Saxon classroom and, if so, how? How were disputes about bookland dealt with? What happened to the last male representative of the West …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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Areas of study pursued in this book include a revealing grammatical document from eighth-century Northumbria; renewed excavations at Sutton Hoo are reported; the existence of an unnoticed late Old English prose version of parts of Gregory's Dialogues is pointed out. Fresh thinking is directed to …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
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This volume offers fundamental evidence and discussion illuminating a wide range of important subjects: possible influence of Cicero on Bede's attitude to rhetoric; the probability that Theodore and Hadrian brought a glossary from Italy to England; the traditional concept of the narrator in Old …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Simon Keynes, Michael Lapidge m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
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This volume explores many fundamental questions regarding Anglo-Saxon history. Among those considered is the question of did the earliest English prose really divide into a Mercian tradition and a separate West Saxon one? What is the full roll-call of extant texts containing late Old English …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
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This volume makes important contributions to our stock of primary manuscript evidence: it recovers parts of six previously unrecorded charters and analyses two sets of fragments, each unique in its own way - two leaves of Old Testament text written in Mercia or Canterbury early in the ninth century …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
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The principal emphasis of this book is the relationship between England and its neighbours in the pre-Conquest period. It brings together fresh information of England's place in the early medieval world, with essays concentrating on finance and trade, travel, learning and education. A detailed …
Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2007
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Place-names, charters, coins and manuscripts are among the forms of evidence studied in this second volume. The topics range from the course of English settlement in the south-east to the power and influence of a leading aristocratic family in the tenth century and the possible presence of Jews in …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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This book illustrates some of the exciting paths of enquiry being explored in many different fields of Anglo-Saxon studies - archaeology, legal history, palaeography, Old English syntax and poetic, Latin learning with its many reflexes in Old English prose literature, and others. In all these …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
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The vitality of Anglo-Saxon studies is reflected in the continuing acquisition of fresh knowledge and perspectives gained from the combination of disparate but complementary skills and disciplines. Evidence presented in this book reveals unsuspected aspects of the influence of Aldhelm's Latin …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
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That Alcuin addressed to the monks of Lindisfarne the question, 'What has Ingeld to do with Christ?', is a much repeated dogma in Old English studies; but in this book close examination of the letter in question shows that it was addressed not to Lindisfarne nor to a monastic community, but to a …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
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One of the most important primary sources for our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England is the charters and manuscripts which survive from the period before 1066. In the present book, two complementary essays treat the charters of mid tenth-century English kings, bringing previously unknown documents to …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
606 kr
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Our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England depends wholly on the precise and detailed study of the texts that have come down to us from pre-Conquest times. The present book contains pioneering studies of some of these sources which have been neglected or misunderstood. A comprehensive study of a group of …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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Material evidence brought to light in this book includes a niello disc from Limpsfield Grange (Surrey) and two fragments of a composite Old English homily discovered in Westminster Abbey. Many previously accepted scholarly positions are reassessed and challenged. A comprehensive assessment of the …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
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In the present volume, the two essays that frame the book provide exciting insight into the mental world of the Anglo-Saxons by showing on the one hand how they understood the processes of reading and assimilating knowledge and, on the other, how they conceived of time and the passage of the …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
574 kr
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The discovery in Sonderhausen of a fragmentary psalter glossed in Latin and Old English allows fresh inferences to be drawn regarding the study of the psalter in Anglo-Saxon England, and of the transmission of the corpus of vernacular psalter glosses. A detailed textual and palaeographical study of …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
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This volume is framed by articles that throw interesting light on the achievement and reputation of the greatest of Anglo-Saxon kings - Alfred. It opens with a wide-ranging study of the literary and archaeological evidence for the novel design of Alfred's ships, design which in later times led to …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
606 kr
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The editorial policy of Anglo-Saxon England has been to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. This approach is pursued in exemplary fashion by many of the essays in this volume. Fresh light is thrown on the dating and form of Cynewulf's poem The …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Bruce Mitchell, Peter Clemoes
Häftad, 2007
653 kr
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The Anglo-Saxons' sense of the past, their colour vocabulary and their ties of kinship are among the topics considered in this third volume. Evidence for contemporary ecclesiastical architecture is extracted from an Anglo-Latin poem and evidence for the post-Conquest Anglo-Saxon emigration to …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
619 kr
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The pre-eminence of Anglo-Saxon England in its field can be seen as a result of its encouragement of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. Thus this volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface, in which it is shown that the …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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One of the most important manuscripts surviving from pre-Conquest England receives penetrating analysis by several scholars. The 'Junius Manuscript' is evaluated from a number of intersecting perspectives, including codicology, decoration, script and punctuation; the confluence of these permits a …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
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Throughout the centuries of its existence, Anglo-Saxon society was highly, if not widely, literate: it was a society the functioning of which depended very largely on the written word. All the essays in this volume throw light on the literacy of Anglo-Saxon England, from the writs which were used …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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It is red-letter day in Anglo-Saxon studies when a previously unknown Old English text comes to light. In 2002, as the result of some outstanding scholarly detective work, a fragmentary homiliary, containing exegetical homilies for the Sundays after Pentecost, came to light in the Somerset County …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Malcolm Godden, Simon Keynes
Häftad, 2007
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Ideas about the whole sweep of Anglo-Saxon history and in particular the importance of combining skills from many disciplines are at the centre of this volume. Walter Goffart invites us to think again about what Bede meant by 'the true law of history', while Joanna Story argues that the early …
Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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The materials studied in this volume extend from small pieces of evidence made to reveal Frankish influence on the beginnings of Bath Abbey to a post-Conquest gradual recognized as unique testimony to the pre-Conquest music of Christ Church, Canterbury. An arcane style of Latin poetry much in vogue …
Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2007
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Manuscripts are the form of evidence most studied in this volume: the likely seventh- and eighth-century English ownership of a fifth-century copy of a Hieronymian commentary is meticulously reconstructed; an edition and full discussion of the eighth-century Anglian collection of royal genealogies …
