Anglo-Saxon England

by Edited by Michael Lapidge , Malcolm Godden , Simon Keynes

• ISBN13: 9780521038430
• ISBN10: 052103843X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-03
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The principal emphasis of this book is the relationship between England and its neighbours in the pre-Conquest period. It brings together fresh information of England's place in the early medieval world, with essays concentrating on finance and trade, travel, learning and education. A detailed analysis of the Old English vocabulary for money and wealth shows different usage over two centuries reflects a developing awareness, particularly on the part of 'lfric, of the relationship between wealth and power. Medical recipes in Bald's Leechbook, which stipulate the use of exotic spices from Arabia, have stimulated a fascinating essay on how these ingredients may have made their way from Arabia and the Mediterranean to England. Other essays in this wide-ranging book examine the Old English Rune Poem in the context of its two later Scandinavian analogues; the use in England of Jerome's Hebracium translation of the psalter; and the study in English schools of the difficult verse of Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Pr_s. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Editors' preface

Record of the fourth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Durham, 7-11 August 1989

Bald's Leechbook and cultural interactions in Anglo-Saxon England

Place-names as a reflection of cultural interaction

The Anglo-Saxon and Norse Rune Poems: a comparative study

Money, power and morality in late Anglo-Saxon England

Hebrew and the Hebraicum in late Anglo-Saxon England

England and Aquitaine in the century before the Norman Conquest

Oaks, ships, riddles and the Old English Rune Poem

Bones of contention: the context of ++lfric's homily on St Vincent

The Abbo glossary in London, British Library, Cotton Domitian i

The production of de luxe manuscripts and the patronage of King Cnut

Archbishop Sigeric-s journey to Rome in 990

Bibliography for 1989

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