Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 30 (Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 30) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521802105 ISBN 13: 9780521802109

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

The pre-eminence of Anglo-Saxon England in its field can be seen as a result of its encouragement of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. Thus this volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface, in which it is shown that the unusually formulaic nature of Boniface's letters is best understood as a reflex of the saint's familiarity with vernacular composition. A wide-ranging historical contextualization of The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle illuminates the way English readers of the later tenth century may have defined themselves in contradistinction to the monstrous unknown, and a fresh reading of the gendering of female portraiture in a famous illustrated manuscript of the Psychomachia of Prudentius (CCCC 23) shows the independent ways in which Anglo-Saxon illustrators were able to respond to their models. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book; and a full index of the contents of volumes 26-30 is provided. (Previous indexes have appeared in volumes 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25.)

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Book Description:

This volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface, in which it is shown that the unusually formulaic nature of Boniface's letters is best understood as a reflex of the saint's familiarity with vernacular composition. The usual comprehensive bibliography rounds off the book, whilst a full index of volumes 26-30 is provided.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521802105
• ISBN 13: 9780521802109
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 374
• Editor: Lapidge Michael, Godden Malcolm, Keynes Simon