Anglo-Saxon England

Klappentext This volume embraces the main aspects of Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Zusammenfassung Of outstanding importance in this volume is the first ever attempt to list all the surviving manuscripts that were written or owned in Anglo-Saxon England. A study assembles the widely scattered evidence for slave raiding and slave trading in England. Other contributions examine Latin poems! Beowulf and The Seafarer. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; 1. A preliminary list of manuscripts written or owned in England up to 1100 Helmut Gneuss; 2. Some Latin poems as evidence for the reign of Athelstan Michael Lapidge; 3. Slave raiding and slave trading in early England David Pelteret; 4. A 'Winchester School' wall-painting at Nether Wallop, Hampshire Richard Gem and Pamela Tudor-Craig; 5. The text of a damaged passage in the Exeter Book: Advent (Christ I) 18¿32 John C. Pope; 6. Auxiliary and verbal in Beowulf Alan Bliss; 7. Cain's monstrous progeny in Beowulf: part II, post-diluvian survival Ruth Mellinkoff; 8. Sylf, seasons, structure and genre in The Seafarer Stanley B. Greenfield; 9. The lexical and syntactic variants shared by two of the later manuscripts of King Alfred's translation of Gregory's Cura Pastoralis Dorothy M. Horgan; 10. The scholarly recovery of the significance of Anglo-Saxon records in prose and verse: a new bibliography E. G. Stanley; 11. Farming in the Anglo-Saxon landscape: an archaeologist's review P. J. Fowler; 12. Bibliography for 1979 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton and Simon Keynes.

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• Authors: Peter Clemoes, Peter (University of Cambridge) Clemoes
• Assisted by: Martin Biddle (Editor), Julian Brown (Editor), Peter Clemoes (Editor), Clemoes Peter (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.2007
• EAN: 9780521038669
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03866-9
• No. of pages: 336
• 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