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Klappentext This volume offers fundamental evidence and discussion illuminating a wide range of important subjects in Anglo-Saxon history. Zusammenfassung This volume offers fundamental evidence and discussion illuminating a wide range of important subjects in Anglo-Saxon history. Early and late periods and north and south find a place in this searching treatment of intellectual! cultural and settlement issues. The usual comprehensive bibliography rounds off the book. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; 1. Bede and Cicero Roger Ray; 2. Early Anglo-Saxon glossaries and the school of Canterbury J. D. Pheifer; 3. The traditional narrator and the `I heard' formulas in Old English poetry Ward Parks; 4. The metre of Genesis B David J. G. Lewis; 5. Adaptation and anweald in the Old English Orosius William A. Kretzschmar Jr; 6. English Square minuscule script: the background and earliest phases David N. Dumville; 7. An Anglo-Saxon fragment of Justinus's Epitome Julia Crick; 8. Two pre-Conquest manuscripts from Glastonbury Abbey James P. Carley; 9. The Anglo-Saxon manuscripts of Prudentius's Psychomachia Gernot R. Wieland; 10. Moneyers of the late Anglo-Saxon coinage: the Danish dynasty 1017¿42 Veronica J. Smart; 11. Bibliography for 1986 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, Mark Blackburn, C. R. E. Coutts, David N. Dumville, Sarah Foot and Simon Keynes.
