Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England
Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday
Published on 15. August 1985
Book
Hardback
478 pages
978-0-521-25902-6 (ISBN)
Description
Originally published in 1985, fourteen leading specialists in the field of Anglo-Saxon studies contributed to this substantial collection of essays in honour of Peter Clemoes, founder of Anglo-Saxon England, who had recently retired as Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge. The book is divided into two complementary parts. The first looks at the background to Anglo-Saxon learning, in particular at the composition of monastic and private libraries and the nature of the individual works available in them. The second examines the contents and sources of individual texts and reviews the problems of interpretation and transmission these pose for scholars. Many of these essays deal with complex and difficult materials like manuscripts and liturgical sources that are fundamental to the interpretation of Old English literature and to Anglo-Saxon culture in general.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
865 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-25902-6 (9780521259026)
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Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday
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Michael Lapidge | Helmut Gneuss
Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England
Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday
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02/2010
Cambridge University Press
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Content
The writings of Peter Clemoes; Part I. The Background: Books, Libraries and Learning in Anglo-Saxon England: 1. Whitby as a centre of learning in the seventh century Peter Hunter Blair; 2. Surviving booklists from Anglo-Saxon England Michael Lapidge; 3. Liturgical books in Anglo-Saxon England and their Old English terminology Helmut Gneuss; 4. King Athelstan's books Simon Keynes; Part II. The Texts: Texts, Sources and Interpretations: 5. Thoughts on Ephrem the Syrian in Anglo-Saxon England Patrick Sims-Williams; 6. On the library of the Old English Martyrologist J. E. Cross; 7. The orientation system in the Old English Orosius: shifted or not? Michael Korhammer; 8. Anglo-Saxons on the mind M. R. Gooden; 9. The homilies of the Blickling manuscript D. G. Scragg; 10. The liturgical background of the Old English Advent lyrics: a reappraisal Susan Rankin; 11. The Office in late Anglo-Saxon monasticism M. McC. Gatch; 12. The Judgement of the Damned (from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 201 and other manuscripts), and the definition of Old English verse E. G. Stanley; 13. Beowulf and the judgement of the righteous Stanley B. Greenfield; 14. Linguistic evidence as a guide to the authorship of Old English verse: a reappraisal, with special reference to Beowulf Janet Bately; Indexes.