Anglo-Saxon England
Anglo-Saxon England
Simon Keynes, University of Cambridge
Rory Naismith, University of Cambridge
The fiftieth volume of Anglo-Saxon England ranges from the seventh century - with studies of Archbishop Theodore's computus, the creation of English law-writing, and Aldhelm's Irish influences - into modernity, with new accounts of John Leland's De uiris illustribus and of iron as a metaphor for Old English verse in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Several new discoveries also feature, including fragments of an Old English-glossed psalter, three Agnus Dei pennies, a proposed 'solution' to the Wife's Lament, and the likely site of the urbs Giudi described by Bede. Readers will encounter Eadgifu, a woman who governed Kent; the names of English clerics; the waning land of the kingdom of the Hwicce; the many uses and meanings of bells; and runes in the Vineyard of the Lord. Also included is an account of the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England's 2021 virtual conference, and an essay surveying current scholarship on Archbishop Wulfstan II of York, commissioned to mark the millennium of his death. An index of the contents of volumes 1–50 marks the reaching of a different milestone. An abstract precedes each article. The fiftieth volume of Anglo-Saxon England ranges from the seventh century - with studies of Archbishop Theodore's computus, the creation of English law-writing, and Aldhelm's Irish influences - into modernity, with new accounts of John Leland's De uiris illustribus and of iron as a metaphor for Old English verse in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Several new discoveries also feature, including fragments of an Old English-glossed psalter, three Agnus Dei pennies, a proposed 'solution' to the Wife's Lament, and the likely site of the urbs Giudi described by Bede. Readers will encounter Eadgifu, a woman who governed Kent; the names of English clerics; the waning land of the kingdom of the Hwicce; the many uses and meanings of bells; and runes in the Vineyard of the Lord. Also included is an account of the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England's 2021 virtual conference, and an essay surveying current scholarship on Archbishop Wulfstan II of York, commissioned to mark the millennium of his death. An index of the contents of volumes 1–50 marks the reaching of a different milestone. An abstract precedes each article.
- The fiftieth volume of Anglo-Saxon England marks the milestone with a diverse range of new research, as well as an index to the contents of volumes one to fifty
- Subjects covered range from Archbishop Theodore's computus to a possible 'solution' to the Wife's Lament
- Also included is a survey of current scholarship on Archbishop Wulfstan II of York, commissioned to mark the millennium of his death
Product details
No date availableHardback
9781009588171
528 pages
233 × 156 × 25 mm
0.77kg
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of abbreviations
- 1. Record of the Twentieth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England at the University of Winchester, Concordia University, Flinders University and Leiden University (17–18
- 21–22 June, 2021) Thijs Porck
- 2. Aldhelm's Aenigmata, Greek riddles, and the Hisperica famina Cameron Scott Laird
- 3. Theodore of Tarsus and the study of Computus at the Canterbury School Tobit Loevenich and Immo Warntjes
- 4. Innovation and experimentation in late seventh-century law: the case of Theodore, Hlothhere, Wihtræd and Ine Ingrid Ivarsen
- 5. Urbs Giudi: text, translation and topography Nick Aitchison
- 6. 'Exeter Riddle 4' and two other bell riddles Neville Mogford
- 7. The hidation of the Hwicce: investigating its halving between the eighth century and 1086 Steven Bassett
- 8. Newly discovered pieces of an Old English glossed psalter: The Alkmaar fragments of the N-Psalter Thijs Porck
- 9. Vine-workers of the Lord: a reading of the runic sequence and imagery of the Tollemache Orosius flyleaf Tom Birkett
- 10. Eadgifu, Governor of Kent, in a Lost Charter of Edgar James Lloyd
- 11. Se ðe oðran naman wæs geciged: the naming of bishops and clerics in late Anglo-Saxon England Arnaud Lestremau
- 12. Three new Agnus Dei pennies Simon Keynes, William MacKay and Rory Naismith
- 13. Scholars come for the Archbishop: the afterlife of Archbishop Wulfstan of York, 1023–2023 Andrew Rabin
- 14. John Leland and Asser's Vita Ælfredi regis: British Library, MS Cotton Otho A. xii Reconsidered in its Tudor Context James P. Carley
- 15. At the limits of knowledge: the iron poetics of Old English verse in the Nineteenth century Shu-han Luo
- 16. Radegund and Amalfrid in The Wife's Lament Richard North
- 17. Urbs Giudi: text, translation and topography – CORRIGENDUM Nick Aitchison
- 18. Golden ASE Rosalind Love
- Index of contents, volumes 1–50.
