Anglo-Saxon England

Klappentext Manuscripts are the form of evidence most studied in this volume of Anglo-Saxon England. Zusammenfassung Manuscripts are the form of evidence most studied in this volume. Among others! the likely seventh- and eighth-century English ownership of a fifth-century copy of a Hieronymian commentary is reconstructed! and an edition and full discussion of the eighth-century Anglian collection of royal genealogies and regnal lists advance our understanding of this difficult material. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Cuthswith, seventh-century abbess of Inkberrow, near Worcester, and the Würzburg manuscript of Jerome on Ecclesiastes Patrick Sims-Williams; 2. The Anglian collection of royal genealogies and regnal lists David N. Dumville; 3. The authenticating voice in Beowulf Stanley B. Greenfield; 4. The ideal of men dying with their lord in the Germania and in The Battle of Maldon Rosemary Woolf; 5. Ælfric's use of discourse in some saints' lives Ruth Waterhouse; 6. Caesarius of Arles and Old English literature Joseph B. Trahern Jr; 7. A supplement to Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon N. R. Ker; 8. The probable derivation of most of the illustrations in Junius II from an illustrated Old Saxon Genesis Barbara Raw; 9. The palaeography of the Parker manuscript of the Chronicle, laws and Sedulius, and historiography at Winchester in the late ninth and tenth centuries M. B. Parkes; 10. Some problems in interpreting Anglo-Saxon coinage Stewart Lyon; 11. Beginnings continued: a decade of studies of Old English prose Milton McC. Gatch; 12. Bibliography for 1975 Martin Biddle, Alan Brown, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton and Peter Hunter Blair; Index to volumes 1¿5.

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• Authors: Peter Clemoes, Peter (University of Cambridge) Clemoes, Peter Biddle Clemoes
• Assisted by: Martin Biddle (Editor), Julian Brown (Editor), Peter Clemoes (Editor), Clemoes Peter (Editor), Rene Derolez (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.2007
• EAN: 9780521038621
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03862-1
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Anglo-Saxon England; Anglo-Saxon England; Anglo-Saxon England 34 Volume Paperback Set
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; England, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, British & Irish history, Archaeology, Literature: history & criticism, History and Archaeology, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Literature: history and criticism, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE