Anglo-Saxon England

Klappentext This volume studies some of the main topics of Anglo-Saxon history. Zusammenfassung Among topics covered in this volume! two important authorship questions are settled; the discovery of a major Northumbrian settlement is reported; and the conceptions of Old English literature which have prevailed during the last three hundred years are paraded for critical inspection. The usual comprehensive bibliography rounds off the book. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; 1. Identifiable books from the pre-Conquest library of Malmesbury Abbey Rodney Thomson; 2. Milred of Worcester's collection of Latin epigrams and its continental counterparts Patrick Sims-Williams; 3. The prefix un- and the metrical grammar of Beowulf Calvin B. Kendall; 4. Hrothgar's 'sermon' in Beowulf as parental wisdom Elaine Tuttle Hansen; 5. Lexical evidence for the authorship of the prose psalms in the Paris Psalter Janet M. Bately; 6. Byrhtferth of Ramsey and the early sections of the Historia Regum attributed to Symeon of Durham Michael Lapidge; 7. Byrhtferth's Enchiridion and the computus in Oxford, St John's College Peter S. Baker; 8. Princeps Merciorum gentis: the family, career and connections of ?fhere, ealdorman of Mercia 956? A. Williams; 9. The laws of Cnut and the history of Anglo-Saxon royal promises Pauline Stafford; 10. Sprouston, Roxburghshire: an Anglo-Saxon settlement discovered by air reconnaissance J. K. S. St Joseph; 11. Histories and surveys of Old English literature: a chronological review Daniel G. Calder; 12. Bibliography for 1980 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton, C. R. E. Coutts and Simon Keynes; Index to volumes 6?.

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• Authors: Martin Biddle, Martin Brown Biddle, Julian Brown, Peter Clemoes, Peter (University of Cambridge) Clemoes, Rene Derolez
• Assisted by: Peter Clemoes (Editor), Clemoes Peter (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.2007
• EAN: 9780521038362
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03836-2
• 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