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Klappentext This volume tackles a number of challenging questions on Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Zusammenfassung This volume tackles a number of challenging questions while also offering a publication of findings concerning a striking sculptured stone unearthed at Repton and an interpretation of a panel on the Ruthwell Cross! two source studies of vernacular prose! a demonstration of Aldhelm's interest in how a name is related to its referent! and a searching enquiry into early Anglo-Saxon kingship. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; 1. The kingdom of the East Saxons Barbara Yorke; 2. Aldhelm's Enigmata and Isidorian etymology Nicholas Howe; 3. The text of Aldhelm's Fnigma no. c in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson C. 697, and Exeter Riddle 40 Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe; 4. Evidence for primacy of alliteration in Old English metre David L. Hoover; 5. The Aviones and Widsith 26a Alan Bliss; 6. The use of patristic homilies in the Old English Martyrology J. E. Cross; 7. The 'Sunday Letter' and the 'Sunday Lists' Clare A. Lees; 8. The glossed manuscript: classbook or library book? Gernot R. Wieland; 9. Disputes about bocland: the forum for their adjudication A. G. Kennedy; 10. Edgar the Ætheling: Anglo-Saxon prince, rebel and crusader Nicholas Hooper; 11. The Christ and the beasts panel on the Ruthwell Cross Kristine Edmondson Haney; 12. The Repton Stone Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle; 13. Anglo-Saxon Architecture and Anglo-Saxon studies: a review Martin Biddle, Rosemary Cramp, Milton McC. Gatch, Simon Keynes and Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle; 14. Bibliography for 1984 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, Mark Blackburn, C. R. E. Coutts, David N. Dumville, Sarah Foot and Simon Keynes.
