Anglo-Saxon England
Published on 11. October 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
376 pages
978-0-521-03854-6 (ISBN)
Description
The editorial policy of Anglo-Saxon England has been to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. This approach is pursued in exemplary fashion by many of the essays in this volume. Fresh light is thrown on the dating and form of Cynewulf's poem The Fates of the Apostles through a comprehensive study of the historical martyrologies of the Carolingian period on which Cynewulf is presumed to have drawn. The literary form of AElfric's Preface to his translation of Genesis is illustrated through a wide-ranging study of the rhetorical genre of preface-writing in the early Middle Ages (the genre which subsequently was known as the ars dictaminis), and the problems which AElfric faced and solved in composing a Life of St AEthelthryth are illustrated through detailed comparison of the sources which he utilized. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
609 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-03854-6 (9780521038546)
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Michael Lapidge | Malcolm Godden | Simon Keynes
Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 29
Book
02/2001
Cambridge University Press
€157.49
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Previous edition
Michael Lapidge | Malcolm Godden | Simon Keynes
Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 29
Book
02/2001
Cambridge University Press
€157.49
Article exhausted; check for reprint
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Content
List of illustrations; 1. Record of the ninth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at the University of Notre Dame, 8-12 August, 1999; 2. The archetype of Beowulf Michael Lapidge; 3. Genesis A and the Anglo-Saxon 'migration myth' Paul Battles; 4. Did Cynewulf use a martyrology? Reconsidering the sources of The Fates of the Apostles John M. McCulloh; 5. The Junius Psalter gloss: its historical and cultural context Mechthild Gretsch; 6. Anglicized word order in the Old English continuous interlinear glosses in London, British Library, Royal 2. A. XX Joseph Crowley; 7. The 'robed Christ' in pre-Conquest sculptures of the Crucifixion Elizabeth Coatsworth; 8. AEthelweard's Chronicon and Old English poetry Angelika Lutz; 9. AElfric's Preface to Genesis: genre, rhetoric and the origins of the ars dictaminis Mark Griffith; 10. AElfric and the purpose of Christian marriage: a reconsideration of the Life of AEthelthryth, lines 120-30 Peter Jackson; 11. Cnut and Lotharingia: two notes Michael Hare; 12. Francis Junius (1591-1677): copyist or editor? Kees Dekker; 13. Bibliography for 1999 Debby Banham, Carl T. Berkhout, Carole P. Biggam, Mark Blackburn, Carole Hough, Simon Keynes and Teresa Webber.