Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 30

Klappentext This volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface. Zusammenfassung This volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface! in which it is shown that the unusually formulaic nature of Boniface's letters is best understood as a reflex of the saint's familiarity with vernacular composition. The usual comprehensive bibliography rounds off the book! whilst a full index of volumes 26-30 is provided. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; 1. Place-name evidence for an Anglo-Saxon animal name: OE *pohha/*pocca 'fallow deer' Carole Hough; 2. Old sources, new resources: finding the right formula for Boniface Andy Orchard; 3. The illness of King Alfred the Great David Pratt; 4. The social context of narrative disruption in The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle Brian McFadden; 5. Broken bodies and singing tongues: gender and voice in the Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 23 Psychomachia Catherine E. Karkov; 6. The prodigal fragment: Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College 734/782a Rebecca Rushforth; 7. Contextualising the Knútsdrápur: skaldic praise-poetry at the court of Cnut Matthew Townend; 8. Anglo-Saxon prognostics in context: a survey and handlist of manuscripts Roy Michael Liuzza; 9. Junius's knowledge of the Old English poem Durham Daniel Paul O'Donnell; 10. Bibliography for 2000 Debby Banham, Carl T. Berkhout, Carole P. Biggam, Mark Blackburn, Carole Hough, Teresa Webber and Simon Keynes; Index to volumes 26-30.

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• Authors: Malcolm Godden, S. Keynes, Michael Lapidge, Michael (University of Notre Dame Lapidge, Michael Godden Lapidge, Professor Michael Godden Lapidge
• Assisted by: Malcolm Godden (Editor), Malcolm (University of Oxford) Godden (Editor), Simon Keynes (Editor), Simon (University of Cambridge) Keynes (Editor), Michael Lapidge (Editor), Michael (University of Notre Dame Lapidge (Editor), Professor Michael Lapidge (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.07.2002
• EAN: 9780521802109
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80210-9
• No. of pages: 374
• Series: Anglo-Saxon England; Anglo-Saxon England
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries