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Klappentext This volume explores many fundamental questions regarding Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Zusammenfassung This volume explores many fundamental questions regarding Anglo-Saxon history. Fresh directions of thought! original analysis! stricter criteria and additions to the stock of primary evidence all characterize this book. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; 1. Record of the third conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Toronto, 20¿3 April 1987; 2. The Old Frisian component in Holthausen's Altenglisches etymologisches Wörterbuch Rolf H. Bremmer Jr; 3. The botanical lexicon of the Old English Herbarium Maria Amalia D'Aronco; 4. Ælfric's use of etymologies Joyce Hill; 5. A Frankish scholar in tenth-century England: Frithegod of Canterbury/Fredegaud of Brioude Michael Lapidge; 6. The Yale fragments of the West Saxon gospels Roy Michael Liuzza; 7. A fragment of an Anglo-Saxon liturgical manuscript at the University of Missouri Linda Ehrsam Voigts; 8. Old English prose before and during the reign of Alfred Janet M. Bately; 9. Winchester and the standardization of Old English vocabulary Walter Hofstetter; 10. The Latin textual basis of Genesis A Paul G. Remley; 11. Anglo-Saxon medicine and magic M. L. Cameron; 12. Evidence for knowledge of Greek in Anglo-Saxon England Mary Catherine Bodden; 13. A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon lawsuits Patrick Wormald; 14. Bibliography for 1987 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, Mark Blackburn, C. R. E. Coutts, David N. Dumville, Sarah Foot and Simon Keynes.
