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Klappentext This volume looks at the charters of mid tenth-century English kings! an important primary source of our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England. Zusammenfassung One of the most important primary sources for our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England is the charters and manuscripts which survive from the period before 1066. In the present book! two complementary essays treat the charters of mid tenth-century English kings! bringing previously unknown documents to light and establishing the circumstances in which they were produced. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; 1. Record of the sixth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Wadham College, University of Oxford, 1¿7 August 1993; 2. A background to Augustine's mission to Anglo-Saxon England Rob Meens; 3. The early Kentish 'divorce laws': a reconsideration of Æthelberht, chs. 79 and 80 Carole A. Hough; 4. The pattern of Old English burh in early Lindsey Barrie Cox; 5. The language of the 'Fonthill Letter' Mechthild Gretsch; 6. The `Three Orders' of society in Anglo-Saxon England Timothy E. Powell; 7. English Square minuscule script: the mid-century phases David N. Dumville; 8. The 'Dunstan B' charters Simon Keynes; 9. Dry-point glosses to Aldhelm's De laudibus virginitatis in Beinecke 401 Philip G. Rusche; 10. Ælfric's Judith: manipulative or manipulated? Mary Clayton; 11. Old Latin interventions in the Old English Heptateuch Richard Marsden; 12. More pre-Conquest manuscripts from Glastonbury Abbey James P. Carley; 13. An eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon missal fragment Nicholas Orchard; 14. Bibliography for 1993 Lesley J. Abrams, Carl T. Berkhout, Mark Blackburn, Sarah Foot, Alexander Rumble and Simon Keynes.
