Anglo-Saxon England

by Edited by Michael Lapidge , Malcolm Godden , Simon Keynes

• ISBN13: 9780521807722
• ISBN10: 0521807727
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume contains studies of texts that have come down to us from pre-Conquest times, thus enhancing our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Record of the tenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at the University of Helsinki, 6--11 August 2001	1	(6)
The landscape of Beowulf	7	(6)
Margaret Gelling
Sceaf, Japheth and the origins of the Anglo-Saxons	13	(34)
Daniel Anlezark
The Anglo-Saxons and the Goths: rewriting the sack of Rome	47	(22)
M. R. Godden
The Old English Bede and the construction of Anglo-Saxon authority	69	(12)
Nicole Guenther
Daniel, the Three Youths fragment and the transmission of Old English verse	81	(60)
Paul G. Remley
An integrated re-examination of the dating of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 11	141	(34)
Leslie Lockett
Ælfric on the creation and fall of the angels	175	(26)
Michael Fox
The colophon of the Eadwig Gospels	201	(22)
Richard Gameson
Public penance in Anglo-Saxon England	223	(34)
Brad Bedingfield
The Bayeux `Tapestry': invisible seams and visible boundaries	257	(18)
Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Bibliography for 2001	275
Debby Banham
Carole P. Biggam
Mark Blackburn
Carole Hough
Simon Keynes
Paul G. Remley
Abbreviations listed before the bibliography (pages 276--7) are used throughout the volume without other explanation
The editorial assistance of Clare Orchard is gratefully acknowledged