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Anglo-Saxon England

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The forty-fifth volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains articles on Old English Literature, the 'Trumpington Cross', and the Fuller Brooch.

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Record of the seventeenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at the University of Glasgow, 3¿7 August 2015 Martin Foys and Susan Irvine; 1. The Trumpington Cross in context Sam Lucy; 2. A ninth-century Old English homily from Northumbria Donald Scragg; 3. The composite authorship of The Dream of the Rood Leonard Neidorf; 4. Re-dating Alcuin's De dialectica: or, did Alcuin teach at Lorsch? Eva M. E. Rädler-Bohn; 5. Hands and eyes, sight and touch: appraising the senses in Anglo-Saxon England Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe; 6. The Burghal Hidage and the West Saxon burhs: a reappraisal Jeremy Haslam; 7. The Fuller Brooch and Anglo-Saxon depictions of dance Martha Bayless; 8. Hybrid forms: translating Boethius in Anglo-Saxon England Erica Weaver; 9. The Seafarer, Grammatica, and the making of Anglo-Saxon textual culture Audrey Walton; 10. Liturgy or private devotion? Reappraising Warsaw, Biblioteka Narodowa, I. 3311 Gerald P. Dyson; 11. Landscapes of devotion: the settings of St Swithun's early Vitae Jennifer A. Lorden; 12. Aristocratic deer hunting in late Anglo-Saxon England: a reconsideration, based upon the Vita S. Dvnstani Tim Flight; 13. The Ely memoranda and the economy of the late Anglo-Saxon fenland Rory Naismith; 14. The earliest modern Anglo-Saxon grammar: Sir Henry Spelman, Abraham Wheelock and William Retchford Peter J. Lucas.

Summary

The forty-fifth volume of Anglo-Saxon England focusses on Anglo-Saxon culture and history from the seventh to the seventeenth century, from the recent discovery of the 'Trumpington Cross' to a study of a seventeenth-century Anglo-Saxon Grammar. This volume also addresses the Burghal Hidage and the iconography of the Fuller Brooch.

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Authors Rosalind Love, Rosalind (University of Cambridge) Keynes Love
Assisted by Simon Keynes (Editor), Simon (University of Cambridge) Keynes (Editor), Rosalind Love (Editor), Rosalind (University of Cambridge) Love (Editor), Andy Orchard (Editor), Andy (University of Oxford) Orchard (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2017
 
EAN 9781108419253
ISBN 978-1-108-41925-3
No. of pages 350
Series Anglo-Saxon England
Anglo-Saxon England
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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