Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 39

Klappentext Anglo-Saxon England embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Zusammenfassung Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Articles in volume 39 include: 'Why is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle about kings?' by Nicholas Brooks and 'The Homiliary of Angers in tenth-century England' by Winfried Rudolf. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Record of the fourteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists at Memorial University, St John's, Newfoundland, 26¿31 July 2009 Mary Swan; 2. Aldhelm and Old St Peter's, Rome Joanna Story; 3. The maritime imagination and the paradoxical mind in Old English poetry Antonina Harbus; 4. Why is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle about kings? Nicholas Brooks; 5. Royal wisdom and the Alfredian context of Cynewulf and Cyneheard Francis Leneghan; 6. The Edgar poems and the poetics of failure in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Scott Thompson Smith; 7. The star-like soul in the metra of the Old English Boethius Karmen Lenz; 8. The Homiliary of Angers in tenth-century England Winfried Rudolf; 9. The Old English Life of St Neot and the legends of King Alfred Malcolm Godden; 10. An eighteenth Agnus Dei penny of King Æthelred the Unready Simon Keynes and Mark Blackburn; Bibliography for 2009 Paul G. Remley, Martha Bayless, Carole P. Biggam, Mark Blackburn, Felicity H. Clark, Fiona Edmonds, Carole Hough, Simon Keynes and Rebecca Rushforth.

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• 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: 15.12.2011
• EAN: 9780521895101
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89510-1
• No. of pages: 550
• Series: Anglo-Saxon England; Anglo-Saxon England
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages