Anglo-Saxon England

by Edited by Michael Lapidge , Malcolm Godden , Simon Keynes

• ISBN13: 9780521038461
• ISBN10: 0521038464
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-15
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The vitality of Anglo-Saxon studies is reflected in the continuing acquisition of fresh knowledge and perspectives gained from the combination of disparate but complementary skills and disciplines. Evidence presented in this book reveals unsuspected aspects of the influence of Aldhelm's Latin poetry in early medieval Spain. The many non-runic inscriptions which have been discovered since 1980 are catalogued and analysed. Comprehensive analysis of a little-understood Latin source of the Old English medical treatise known as Bald's Leechbook throws light not only on the English text but also, surprisingly, on the transmissional history of the Latin source. The decoration of an important manuscript from the early tenth century, the Tanner Bede, is set in the context of tenth-century developments in manuscript illumination, and the analysis of the Regularis concordia from an architectural point of view permits fresh understanding of the layout of monastic churches in the later Anglo-Saxon period. 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

Record of the fifth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Stony Brook, New York, 22-6 July 1991

The transmission of Aldhelm's writings in early medieval Spain

Cultural assimilation in the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies

A second supplement to Hand-List of Anglo-Saxon Non-Runic Inscriptions

Bald's Leechbook and the Physica

The decoration of the Tanner Bede

The architectural interest of the Regularis Concordia

King Edgar's reliquary of St Swithun

++lfric and Smaragdus

Crying wolf: oral style and the Sermones Lupi

Bibliography for 1991

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