Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 40

Anglo-Saxon England embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture.

List of contents

1. Adomnán, plague and the Easter controversy David Woods; 2. Personal names in the composition and transmission of Bede's prose Vita S. Cuthberti Francesca Tinti; 3. Id est, crux Christi: tracing the Old English motif of the Celestial Rood Brandon W. Hawk; 4. A more permanent homeland: land tenure in Guthlac A Stephanie Clark; 5. Creating the cloud-tent-ship conceit in Exodus Miranda Wilcox; 6. An Old English formulaic system and its contexts in Cynewulf's poetry Charles D. Wright; 7. The Agnus Dei pennies of King Æthelred the Unready Simon Keynes and Rory Naismith; 8. The Anglo-Latin elegy of Herbert and Wulfgar David W. Porter; 9. The Ordinance concerning the Dunsæte and the Anglo-Welsh frontier in the late tenth and eleventh centuries George Molyneaux; 10. Ant-lore in Anglo-Saxon England Marilina Cesario; 11. Second addenda and corrigenda to the Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts Helmut Gneuss; 12. Bibliography for 2010 Paul G. Remley, Carole P. Biggam, Felicity H. Clark, Fiona Edmonds, Carole Hough, Simon Keynes and Rory Naismith.

Summary

The fortieth volume of Anglo-Saxon England reflects the vitality of work in this field across a wide range of disciplines. Included is a second series of addenda and corrigenda to Helmut Gneuss's indispensable handlist of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, and the annual bibliography of publications for the year 2010.

Product details

• Authors: Malcolm Godden, Malcolm (University of Oxford) Keynes Godden, Malcolm Keynes Godden
• Assisted by: Malcolm Godden (Editor), Malcolm (University of Oxford) Godden (Editor), Simon Keynes (Editor), Simon (University of Cambridge) Keynes (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2013
• EAN: 9781107019300
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01930-0
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Anglo-Saxon England; Anglo-Saxon England
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries