Cart

Unlocking potential with the best learning and research solutions

Look Inside

I want this title to be available as an eBook

Anglo-Saxon England

Volume 9

£32.99

Part of Anglo-Saxon England

Editor: Peter Clemoes, University of Cambridge

Helmut Gneuss, Michael Lapidge, David Pelteret, Richard Gem, Pamela Tudor-Craig, John C. Pope, Alan Bliss, Ruth Mellinkoff, Stanley B. Greenfield, Dorothy M. Horgan, E. G. Stanley, P. J. Fowler, Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton, Simon Keynes

View all contributors

Date Published: October 2007
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521038669

Rate & review

£ 32.99
Paperback

Add to cart Add to wishlist

Looking for an inspection copy?

This title is not currently available on inspection

Description

Contents

Resources

Courses

About the Authors

This volume mostly deals with manuscripts, directly or indirectly. Of outstanding importance is the first ever attempt to list all the surviving manuscripts that were written or owned in Anglo-Saxon England. There are studies of particular manuscripts: three Latin poems are added to the very few known to have been composed in the time of Athelstan the first; the damaged page in the Exeter Book of Old English poetry is made to yield a better text than before; the distinctive sense of scholarship and literary style that went into a late Old English editing of one of King Alfred's prose works is revealed. Another study assembles the widely scattered evidence for slave raiding and slave trading in England from the Anglo-Saxon settlement to the advent of the Normans. Other interpretative contributions examine word order in Beowulf and make further advances in the critical appreciation of The Seafarer.

Customer reviews

Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review

Log in to review

Review was not posted due to profanity
×

, create a review

(If you're not , sign out)

Please enter the right captcha value

Please enter a star rating.

Your review must be a minimum of 12 words.

How do you rate this item?

Reviews must contain at least 12 words about the product.

×

Product details
- Date Published: October 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521038669
- length: 336 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.507kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
1. A preliminary list of manuscripts written or owned in England up to 1100 Helmut Gneuss
2. Some Latin poems as evidence for the reign of Athelstan Michael Lapidge
3. Slave raiding and slave trading in early England David Pelteret
4. A 'Winchester School' wall-painting at Nether Wallop, Hampshire Richard Gem and Pamela Tudor-Craig
5. The text of a damaged passage in the Exeter Book: Advent (Christ I) 18–32 John C. Pope
6. Auxiliary and verbal in Beowulf Alan Bliss
7. Cain's monstrous progeny in Beowulf: part II, post-diluvian survival Ruth Mellinkoff
8. Sylf, seasons, structure and genre in The Seafarer Stanley B. Greenfield
9. The lexical and syntactic variants shared by two of the later manuscripts of King Alfred's translation of Gregory's Cura Pastoralis Dorothy M. Horgan
10. The scholarly recovery of the significance of Anglo-Saxon records in prose and verse: a new bibliography E. G. Stanley
11. Farming in the Anglo-Saxon landscape: an archaeologist's review P. J. Fowler
12. Bibliography for 1979 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton and Simon Keynes.
Look Inside
Editor
Peter Clemoes, University of Cambridge
Contributors
Helmut Gneuss, Michael Lapidge, David Pelteret, Richard Gem, Pamela Tudor-Craig, John C. Pope, Alan Bliss, Ruth Mellinkoff, Stanley B. Greenfield, Dorothy M. Horgan, E. G. Stanley, P. J. Fowler, Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton, Simon Keynes