England Before the Conquest
Studies in Primary Sources Presented to Dorothy Whitelock

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List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
List of abbreviations
1. The writings of Dorothy Whitelock
2. The letters of Pope Boniface V and the mission of Paulinus to Northumbria Peter Hunter Blair
3. Bede's text of Libellus Responsionum of Gregory the Great to Augustine of Canterbury Paul Meyvaert
4. A background to St Boniface's mission J. M. Wallace-Hadrill
5. Evidence for contacts between the churches of the Irish and English from the Synod of Whitby to the Viking Age Kathleen Hughes
6. The development of military obligations in eighth- and ninth-century England Nicholas Brooks
7. Ælfric and the Old English version of the Ely privilege John Pope
8. Towns in late Anglo-Saxon England: the evidence and some possible lines of enquiry Henry Loyn
9. Regnum and sacerdotium in the early eleventh century Dorothy Bethurum Loomis
10. Scandinavian settlement in the territory of the Five Boroughs: the place-name evidence in part III, the Grimston-hybrids Kenneth Cameron
11. How long did the Scandinavian language survive in England R. I. Page
12. Personal names on the coinage of Edgar Olof von Feilitzen and Christopher Blunt
13. The narrative mode of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle before the Conquest Cecily Clark
14. The classic additions in the Old English Orosius Janet Bately
15. The orientation system in the Old English Orosius René Derolez
16. The ethic of war in old English J. E. Cross
17. The use in Beowulf of earlier heroic verse Alistair Campbell
18. Cynewulf's image of the Ascension Peter Clemoes
19. The 'Winchester School' before St Æthelwold Francis Wormald
20. The handwriting of Archbishop Wulfstan Neil Ker
21. The nummular brooch from Sulgrave Michael Dolley
22. Repton reconsidered: a study in structural criticism H. M. Taylor
23. Archaeology and the beginnings of English society Martin Biddle
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