Anglo-Saxon England
Anglo-Saxon England
Volume 28:
Michael Lapidge, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Malcolm Godden, University of Oxford
Simon Keynes, University of Cambridge
Malcolm Godden, University of Oxford
Simon Keynes, University of Cambridge
January 2008
28
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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 proses Genesis" by Benjamin C. Withers, "The scribe of the Paris Psalter" by Richard Emms.
- Published in the 1100th anniversary year of the death of King Alfred
- Encouraged interdisciplinary study of surviving records
- Includes the invaluable annual bibliography
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January 2008Paperback
9780521038539
456 pages
228 × 152 × 25 mm
0.682kg
20 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- 1. King Alfred's ships: text and context M. J. Swanton
- 2. What use are the Thorkelin transcripts of Beowulf? Johan Gerritsen
- 3. The iconography of the Utrecht Psalter and the Old English Descent into Hell Jessica Brantley
- 4. Anti-Judaism in Ælfric's Lives of Saints Andrew P. Scheil
- 5. The earliest texts with English and French David W. Porter
- 6. Unfulfilled promise: the rubrics of the Old English prose Genesis Benjamin C. Withers
- 7. The West Saxon Gospels and the gospel-lectionary in Anglo-Saxon England: manuscript evidence and liturgical practice Ursula Lenker
- 8. The scribe of the Paris Psalter Richard Emms
- 9. The Office of the Trinity in the Crowland Psalter (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 296) Barbara C. Raw
- 10. Hereward and Flanders Elisabeth van Houts
- 11. The cult of King Alfred Simon Keynes
- Bibliography for 1998 Debby Banham, Carl T. Berkhout, Carole P. Biggam, Mark Blackburn and Simon Keynes.
