Anglo-Saxon England

by Edited by Michael Lapidge , Malcolm Godden , Simon Keynes

• ISBN13: 9780521652032
• ISBN10: 0521652030
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume is framed by articles that throw interesting light on the achievement and reputation of the greatest of Anglo-Saxon kings - Alfred. It opens with a wide-ranging study of the literary and archaeological evidence for the novel design of Alfred's ships, design which in later times led to his being regarded as the father of the English navy. The book closes with a survey of the development of the Alfredian legend from the tenth to the twentieth century, with material drawn from a wide variety of different sources, including art and literature, much of which may be unfamiliar to students of Anglo-Saxon England. Between these two articles on King Alfred lies a variety of studies which illustrate Anglo-Saxon England's aim of encouraging the interdisciplinary study of surviving records. 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	vii
King Alfred's ships: text and context	1	(22)
M. J. Swanton
What use are the Thorkelin transcripts of Beowulf?	23	(20)
Johan Gerritsen
The iconography of the Utrecht Psalter and the Old English Descent into Hell	43	(22)
Jessica Brantley
Anti-Judaism in AElfric's Lives of Saints	65	(22)
Andrew P. Scheil
The earliest texts with English and French	87	(24)
David W. Porter
Unfulfilled promise: the rubrics of the Old English prose Genesis	111	(30)
Benjamin C. Withers
The West Saxon Gospels and the gospel-lectionary in Anglo-Saxon England: manuscript evidence and liturgical practice	141	(38)
Ursula Lenker
The scribe of the Paris Psalter	179	(6)
Richard Emms
The Office of the Trinity in the Crowland Psalter (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 296)	185	(16)
Barbara C. Raw
Hereward and Flanders	201	(24)
Elisabeth Van Houts Emmanuel College, Cambridge
The cult of King Alfred	225	(132)
Simon Keynes
Bibliography for 1998	357
Debby Banham
Carl T. Berkhout
Carole P. Biggam
Mark Blackburn
Simon Keynes