Anglo-Saxon England

Klappentext This volume includes material extending from evidence of Frankish influence on Bath Abbey to a post-Conquest gradual recognized as testimony to pre-Conquest music. Zusammenfassung The materials studied in this volume extend from small pieces of evidence made to reveal Frankish influence on the beginnings of Bath Abbey to a post-Conquest gradual recognized as unique testimony to the pre-Conquest music of Christ Church! Canterbury. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; 1. Continental influence at Bath monastery in the seventh century Patrick Sims-Williams; 2. Linguistic facts and the interpretation of Old English poetry Bruce Mitchell; 3. The garments that honour the cross in The Dream of the Rood James Smith; 4. Figural narrative in Cynewulf's Juliana Joseph Wittig; 5. Old English composite homilies from Winchester M. R. Godden; 6. The hermeneutic style in tenth-century Anglo-Latin literature Michael Lapidge; 7. A Canterbury classbook of the mid-eleventh century (the 'Cambridge Songs' manuscript) A. G. Rigg and G. R. Wieland; 8. An unknown English Benedictine gradual of the eleventh century K. D. Hartzell; 9. Some aesthetic principles in the use of colour in Anglo-Saxon art J. J. G. Alexander; 10. Corrections to Hildebrand's corpus of Anglo-Saxon moneyers: from Cnut to Edward the Confessor Veronica Smart; 11. Late Anglo-Saxon metal-work: an assessment David A. Hinton; 12. The Vikings in England: a review Gillian Fellows Jensen; 13. Short titles of Old English texts Bruce Mitchell, Christopher Ball and Angus Cameron; 14. Bibliography for 1974 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: 9780521038614
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03861-4
• No. of pages: 284
• 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