| Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 24 Contributor(s): Lapidge, Michael (Editor), Godden, Malcolm (Editor), Keynes, Simon (Editor) |
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ISBN: 052155845X ISBN-13: 9780521558457 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $185.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1996 Annotation: Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication that embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, historical, archaeological and artistic. Articles in the volume include 'Cult of King Alfred' by Simon Keynes, 'What Use Are the Thorkelin Transcripts of Beowulf' by Johan Gerritsen, 'Anti-Judaism in Aelfric's Lives of Saints' by Andrew P Scheil, 'King Alfred's Ships' by M. J. Swanton, 'Unfulfilled Promise: the Rubrics of the Old English Prows Genesis' by Benjamin C. Withers, 'The Scribe of the Paris Psalter' by Richard Emms. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 942.01 |
| Series: Anglo-Saxon England |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.60 lbs) 380 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England depends wholly on the precise and detailed study of the texts that have come down to us from pre-Conquest times. The present book contains pioneering studies of some of these sources which have been neglected or misunderstood. A comprehensive study of a group of lavish gospelbooks written under the patronage of a late Anglo-Saxon countess, Judith of Flanders (sometime wife of the Earl Tostig who was killed at Stamford Bridge in 1066) shows the importance of these artefacts and provides fresh understanding of the transmission of the gospels in late eleventh-century England. Close analysis of the Libellus thelwoldi, a neglected Latin translation of a late tenth-century documentary record of the estates acquired by the redoubtable Bishop thelwold for Ely Abbey, throws significant light on the operations of the laws of land tenure in the late tenth century. These and other more traditional lines of enquiry are the focus of this book. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book. |
