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Klappentext This volume of Anglo-Saxon England provides fresh perspectives on familiar subjects! across all disciplines - whether literary! philological! legal! historical or palaeographical - in the field. Zusammenfassung This volume of Anglo-Saxon England provides fresh perspectives on familiar subjects, across all disciplines - whether literary, philological, legal, historical or palaeographical - in the field. Two Latin texts from the circle of Archbishop Wulfstan are published here in full for the first time. The volume also contains two pioneering essays in the histoire des mentalités. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; 1. Record of the eighth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Università di Palermo, 7¿12 July 1997; 2. Classical rhetoric in Anglo-Saxon England Gabriele Knappe; 2. Cyninges fedesl: the king's feeding in Æthelberht, ch. 12 Lisi Oliver; 3. The Minster-in-Thanet foundation story Stephanie Hollis; 4. Manus Bedae: Bede's contribution to Ceolfrith's bibles Richard Marsden; 5. The transmission and reception of Graeco-Roman mythology in Anglo-Saxon England, 670¿800 Michael W. Herren; 6. A neglected early-ninth-century manuscript of the Lindisfarne Vita S. Cuthberti Donald A. Bullough; 7. The transmission of the 'Digby' corpus of bilingual glosses to Aldhelm's Prosa de virginitate Scott Gwara; 8. Exeter Book Riddle 74 and the play of the text John D. Niles; 9. Body and law in late Anglo-Saxon England Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe; 10. Two composite texts from Archbishop Wulfstan's 'commonplace book': the De ecclesiastica consuetudine and the Institutio beati Amalarii de ecclesiasticis officiis Christopher A. Jones; 11. A newly-found fragment of an Anglo-Saxon psalter Helmut Gneuss; 12. Two runic notes R. I. Page; 13. Bibliography for 1997 Carl T. Berkhout, Carole P. Biggam, Mark Blackburn, Debby Banham, Alexander Rumble and Simon Keynes.
