Anglo-Saxon England

Klappentext Place-names! charters! coins and manuscripts are among the forms of evidence studied in this second volume. Zusammenfassung 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 England in the eleventh. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Place-names from h?, distinguished from hamm names, in relation to the settlement of Kent, Surrey and Sussex John McN. Dodgson; 2. The beginning of the year in England, c. 500?0 Kenneth Harrison; 3. Bede and medieval civilization Gerald Bonner; 4. An interim revision of episcopal dates for the province of Canterbury, 850?0: part II Mary Anne O'Donovan; 5. Athelstan 'Half King' and his family Cyril Hart; 6. Some Irish evidence for the date of the Crux coins of ?helred II Michael Dolley; 7. The round, cap-shaped hats depicted on Jews in BM Cotton Claudius B. iv Ruth Mellinkoff; 8. A rediscovered medieval inscribed ring Elisabeth Okasha; 9. The origin of the Bosworth Psalter P. M. Korhammer; 10. The compilation of the Vercelli Book D. G. Scragg; 11. Portents and events at Christ's birth: comments on Vercelli V and VI and the Old English Martyrology J. E. Cross; 12. An Old English penitential motif M. R. Godden; 13. The cross as Christ's weapon: the influence of heroic literary tradition on The Dream of the Rood Michael D. Cherniss; 14. The thematic significance of enta geweorc and related imagery in The Wanderer P. J. Frankis; 15. The influence of Christian doctrine and exegesis on Old English poetry: an estimate of the current state of scholarship Phillip B. Rollinson; 16. Allegorical, typological or neither? Three short papers on the allegorical approach to Beowulf and a discussion; 17. Bibliography for 1972 Martin Biddle, Alan Brown, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton and Peter Hunter Blair....

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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: 9780521038447
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03844-7
• No. of pages: 348
• Series: Anglo-Saxon England; Anglo-Saxon England; Anglo-Saxon England 34 Volume Paperback Set
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; 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