Anglo-Saxon England
Volume 16
Part of Anglo-Saxon England
- Editors:
- Peter Clemoes, University of Cambridge
- Simon Keynes, University of Cambridge
- Michael Lapidge, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: October 2007
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521038409
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This volume offers fundamental evidence and discussion illuminating a wide range of important subjects: possible influence of Cicero on Bede's attitude to rhetoric; the probability that Theodore and Hadrian brought a glossary from Italy to England; the traditional concept of the narrator in Old English poetry; the nationality of the author of the Old English poem Genesis B; the conceptions of history controlling the Old English Orosius; the establishment of Square minuscule as the standard English script of the tenth century; criteria for distinguishing between Anglo-Saxon script written in England and script written by Anglo-Saxons on the continent; the grounds for claiming that certain surviving pre-Conquest manuscripts were once at Glastonbury; the extent of the circulation of Prudentius's Psychomachia in Anglo-Saxon England; the regional distribution of names of different origins among the moneyers of the Anglo-Danish era. Early and late periods and north and south thus find a place in this searching treatment of intellectual, cultural and settlement issues. The usual comprehensive bibliography rounds off the book.
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- Date Published: October 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521038409
- length: 376 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.557kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
1. Bede and Cicero Roger Ray
2. Early Anglo-Saxon glossaries and the school of Canterbury J. D. Pheifer
3. The traditional narrator and the `I heard' formulas in Old English poetry Ward Parks
4. The metre of Genesis B David J. G. Lewis
5. Adaptation and anweald in the Old English Orosius William A. Kretzschmar Jr
6. English Square minuscule script: the background and earliest phases David N. Dumville
7. An Anglo-Saxon fragment of Justinus's Epitome Julia Crick
8. Two pre-Conquest manuscripts from Glastonbury Abbey James P. Carley
9. The Anglo-Saxon manuscripts of Prudentius's Psychomachia Gernot R. Wieland
10. Moneyers of the late Anglo-Saxon coinage: the Danish dynasty 1017–42 Veronica J. Smart
11. Bibliography for 1986 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, Mark Blackburn, C. R. E. Coutts, David N. Dumville, Sarah Foot and Simon Keynes.
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