Anglo-Saxon England
Will be published approx. on 5. October 2017
Book
Hardback
350 pages
978-1-108-41925-3 (ISBN)
Description
The forty-fifth volume of Anglo-Saxon England focusses on various aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history from the seventh to the seventeenth century. In the field of Old English literature, contributions examine a ninth-century homily fragment, The Dream of the Rood, The Seafarer, and the Old English translation of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae. A contribution which explores references to the senses in a wide range of vernacular texts is complemented by another which reconsiders the iconography of the Fuller Brooch. The network of fortifications recorded in the Burghal Hidage is re-interpreted here as a product of political developments in the later 870s; and a new edition of the 'Ely memoranda' reminds us that the religious houses of the tenth and eleventh centuries functioned also as major agricultural estates. Finally, the contribution of seventeenth-century antiquaries to the development of Anglo-Saxon studies is remembered in a study of an early Anglo-Saxon Grammar.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
824 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-41925-3 (9781108419253)
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Record of the seventeenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at the University of Glasgow, 3-7 August 2015 Martin Foys and Susan Irvine; 1. The Trumpington Cross in context Sam Lucy; 2. A ninth-century Old English homily from Northumbria Donald Scragg; 3. The composite authorship of The Dream of the Rood Leonard Neidorf; 4. Re-dating Alcuin's De dialectica: or, did Alcuin teach at Lorsch? Eva M. E. Raedler-Bohn; 5. Hands and eyes, sight and touch: appraising the senses in Anglo-Saxon England Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe; 6. The Burghal Hidage and the West Saxon burhs: a reappraisal Jeremy Haslam; 7. The Fuller Brooch and Anglo-Saxon depictions of dance Martha Bayless; 8. Hybrid forms: translating Boethius in Anglo-Saxon England Erica Weaver; 9. The Seafarer, Grammatica, and the making of Anglo-Saxon textual culture Audrey Walton; 10. Liturgy or private devotion? Reappraising Warsaw, Biblioteka Narodowa, I. 3311 Gerald P. Dyson; 11. Landscapes of devotion: the settings of St Swithun's early Vitae Jennifer A. Lorden; 12. Aristocratic deer hunting in late Anglo-Saxon England: a reconsideration, based upon the Vita S. Dvnstani Tim Flight; 13. The Ely memoranda and the economy of the late Anglo-Saxon fenland Rory Naismith; 14. The earliest modern Anglo-Saxon grammar: Sir Henry Spelman, Abraham Wheelock and William Retchford Peter J. Lucas.