| Anglo-Saxon England Contributor(s): Godden, Malcolm (Editor), Keynes, Simon (Editor), Lapidge, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521038545 ISBN-13: 9780521038546 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $44.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2008 Annotation: Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication that consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture--linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic. Volume 29 includes: The archetype of Beowulf; Genesis A and the Anglo-Saxon "migration myth"; The Junius Psalter gloss: its historical and cultural context; The "robed Christ" in pre-Conquest sculptures of the Crucifixion; Aethelweard's Chronicon and Old English poetry; Aelfric's Preface to Genesis genre, rhetoric and the origins of the ars dictaminis; Cnut and Lotharingia: two notes; Bibliography for 1999. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 942.010 |
| Series: Anglo-Saxon England |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6" W x 9" (1.21 lbs) 376 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication that consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture--linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic. Volume 29 includes: The archetype of Beowulf; Genesis A and the Anglo-Saxon migration myth; The Junius Psalter gloss: its historical and cultural context; The robed Christ in pre-Conquest sculptures of the Crucifixion; Aethelweard's Chronicon and Old English poetry; Aelfric's Preface to Genesis genre, rhetoric and the origins of the ars dictaminis; Cnut and Lotharingia: two notes; Bibliography for 1999. |