Anglo-Saxon England

by Edited by Michael Lapidge , Malcolm Godden , Simon Keynes

• ISBN13: 9780521038546
• ISBN10: 0521038545
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The editorial policy of Anglo-Saxon England has been to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. This approach is pursued in exemplary fashion by many of the essays in this volume. Fresh light is thrown on the dating and form of Cynewulf's poem The Fates of the Apostles through a comprehensive study of the historical martyrologies of the Carolingian period on which Cynewulf is presumed to have drawn. The literary form of 'lfric's Preface to his translation of Genesis is illustrated through a wide-ranging study of the rhetorical genre of preface-writing in the early Middle Ages (the genre which subsequently was known as the ars dictaminis), and the problems which 'lfric faced and solved in composing a Life of St 'thelthryth are illustrated through detailed comparison of the sources which he utilized. 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 ninth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at the University of Notre Dame, 8-12 August, 1999

The archetype of

Genesis A and the Anglo-Saxon 'migration myth'

Did Cynewulf use a martyrology? Reconsidering the sources of The Fates of the Apostles

The Junius Psalter gloss: its historical and cultural context

Anglicized word order in the Old English continuous interlinear glosses in London, British Library, Royal 2

The 'robed Christ' in pre-Conquest sculptures of the Crucifixion

'thelweard's Chronicon and Old English poetry

'lfric's Preface to Genesis: genre, rhetoric and the origins of the ars dictaminis

'lfric and the purpose of Christian marriage: a reconsideration of the Life of 'thelthryth, lines 120-30

Cnut and Lotharingia: two notes

Francis Junius (1591-1677): copyist or editor?

Bibliography for 1999

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