Anglo-Saxon England

by Edited by Malcolm Godden , Simon Keynes

• ISBN13: 9780521767361
• ISBN10: 0521767369
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and which promotes the more unusual interests - in music or medicine or education, for example. Articles in volume 37 include: Record of the thirteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, 30 July to 4 August 2007; The virtues of rhetoric: Alcuin's Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus; King Edgar's charter for Pershore (972); Lost voices from Anglo-Saxon Lichfield; The Old English Promissio Regis; 'lfric, the Vikings, and an anonymous preacher in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College (162); Re-evaluating base-metal artifacts: an inscribed lead strap-end from Crewkerne, Somerset; Anglo-Saxon and related entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004); Bibliography for 2007.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vii
Record of the thirteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, 30 July to 4 August 2007	p. 1
The virtues of rhetoric: Alcuin's Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus	p. 7
King Edgar's chatter for Pershore (972)	p. 31
Lost voices from Anglo-Saxon Lichfield	p. 79
The Old English Promissio regis	p. 91
Viking invasions and marginal annotations in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College	p. 151
Re-evaluating base-metal artifacts: an inscribed lead strap-end from Crewkerne, Somerset	p. 173
Anglo-Saxon and related entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)	p. 183
Bibliography for 2007
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