Anglo-Saxon England

Klappentext This volume brings to light material evidence to further our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England. Zusammenfassung Material evidence brought to light in this book includes a niello disc from Limpsfield Grange (Surrey) and two fragments of a composite Old English homily discovered in Westminster Abbey. Many previously accepted scholarly positions are reassessed and challenged. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book! along with an index. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; 1. Record of the seventh conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Stanford University, 6¿12 August 1995; 2. The blood of Abel and the branches of sin: Genesis A, Maxims I and Aldhelm's Carmen de uirginitate Charles D. Wright; 3. Regula canonicorum or Regula monasterialis uitae? The Rule of Chrodegang and Archbishop Wulfred's reforms at Canterbury Brigitte Langefeld; 4. The originality of the Old English gloss of the Vespasian Psalter and its relation to the gloss of the Junius Psalter Phillip Pulsiano; 5. The Limpsfield Grange disc Elizabeth Okasha and Susan Youngs; 6. Traditions concerning Jamnes and Mambres in Anglo-Saxon England Frederick M. Biggs and Thomas N. Hall; 7. The author of the Fonthill Letter Mark Boynton and Susan Reynolds; 8. Palaces or minsters? Northampton and Cheddar reconsidered John Blair; 9. The advent of poetry: Christ I Edward B. Irving Jr; 10. The origin of the Exeter Book of Old English poetry Richard Gameson; 11. Exeter Book Riddle 57 (55) - a double solution? Audrey L. Meaney; 12. An Old English fragment from Westminster Abbey R. I. Page; 13. The glosses on Bede's De temporum ratione attributed to Byrhtferth of Ramsey Michael Gorman; 14. Bibliography for 1995 Lesley J. Abrams, Carl T. Berkhout, Mark Blackburn, Debby Banham, Alexander Rumble and Simon Keynes; Index to volumes 21-25; Index of contents, volumes 1-25.

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• Authors: Malcolm Lapidge Godden, Michael Lapidge, Michael Godden Lapidge, Professor Michael Godden Lapidge
• Assisted by: Malcolm Godden (Editor), Godden Malcolm (Editor), Simon Keynes (Editor), Keynes Simon (Editor), Michael Lapidge (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.2007
• EAN: 9780521038508
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03850-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Anglo-Saxon England; Anglo-Saxon England; Anglo-Saxon England 34 Volume Paperback Set
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