Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 18: v. 18

Simon Keynes And Michael Lapidge And Peter Clemoes

ISBN 10: 0521388813 / ISBN 13: 9780521388818

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 18: v. 18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521388813
• ISBN 13: 9780521388818
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This volume makes important contributions to our stock of primary manuscript evidence: it recovers parts of six previously unrecorded charters and analyses two sets of fragments, each unique in its own way – two leaves of Old Testament text written in Mercia or Canterbury early in the ninth century and six leaves of a missal written at Worcester in the mid-eleventh century. Significant issues in both ecclesiastical and secular history are tackled too – the location of Lindsey, the fate of Rutland during the Scandinavian invasions and settlements, and the state of our knowledge of the archaeology of the Five Boroughs of Leicester, Derby, Nottingham, Stamford and Lincoln. Vernacular literature receives its fair share of attention as well: the relationship between author and audience is examined in the cases of a biblical poem and of the prose homiliary which is still least well understood among the principle ones extant. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Book Description

This volume makes important contributions to our stock of primary manuscript evidence on Anglo-Saxon history and culture. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.