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9780521038515

Anglo-Saxon England

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521038515

  • ISBN10:

    0521038510

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

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Summary

In the present volume, the two essays that frame the book provide exciting insight into the mental world of the Anglo-Saxons by showing on the one hand how they understood the processes of reading and assimilating knowledge and, on the other, how they conceived of time and the passage of the seasons. In the field of art history, two essays treat two of the best-known Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. The lavish symbol pages in the 'Book of Durrow' are shown to reflect a programmatic exposition of the meaning of Easter, and a posthumous essay by a distinguished art historian shows how the Anglo-Saxon illustrations added to the 'Galba Psalter' are best to be understood in the context of the programme of learning instituted by King Alfred. 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
R++dan, areccan, smeagan: how the Anglo-Saxons read
The Book of Durrow and the question of programme
The liturgy of St Willibrord
The case for a West Saxon minuscule
Power, skill and virtue in the Old English
The Galba Psalter: pictures, texts and context in an early medieval prayerbook
On the date, provenance and relationship of the 'Solomon and Saturn' dialogues
The origin and development of the Anglo-Saxon Pychomachia illustrations
Lost in translation: omission of episodes in some Old English prose saints' legends
'Evil Tongues': a previously unedited Old English sermon
The seasons of the year in Old English
Bibliography for 1996
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