Anglo-Saxons Studies Presented to Cyril Roy Hart

by Keynes, Simon; Smyth, Alfred P.

• ISBN13: 9781851829323
• ISBN10: 1851829326
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

The contributors to this book include such masters of their disciplines as Janet Bately, the authority on the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Old English Literature, and Peter Sawyer, the doyen of Early Medieval Scandinavian Studies, together with a whole sluagh of experts including Audrey Meaney, Janet Nelson, Paul Szarmach and Ann Williams. Anglo-Saxon studies generate their fair share of healthy argument and controversy. This volume provides the latest thinking of established scholars from every area of Anglo-Saxon Studies. Anglo-Saxon literature is dealt with in relation to the OldÃ?Â?Ã?Â?English Bede and Ohthere's Report to King Alfred. Ecclesiastical matters are covered in papers on the archbishops of Canterbury, and on Wulfstan of Worcester, as well as in several individual studies of minsters and abbeys. Legal issues are examined in relation to crime and to pagan practices. The Tribal Hidage and Offa's Dyke are dealt with for the early historical period while for the tenth and eleventh centuries, medical texts, land tenure; the role of women, and monetary matters are all covered. The post-Conquest period is represented by studies on the Bayeux Tapestry, Ramsey Abbey and other Fenland monasteries.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	7	(2)
List of Abbreviations	9	(2)
Preface	11	(2)
From Augustine to Parker: the changing face of the first archbishop of Canterbury	13	(26)
Richard
Fiona Gameson
The language of Ohthere's report to King Alfred: some problems and some puzzles for historians and linguists	39	(15)
Janet Bately
The 'poetic turn of mind' of the translator of the OE Bede	54	(15)
Paul E. Szarmach
The queen in ninth-century Wessex	69	(9)
Janet L. Nelson
Fragmented manors and the customs of the Anglo-Saxons	78	(20)
Harold Fox
Lyminge minster and its early charters	98	(16)
Susan Kelly
Wulfstan of Worcester: patriarch of the English?	114	(13)
Emma Mason
Old English legal and penitential penalties for 'heathenism'	127	(32)
Audrey L. Meaney
Monetary circulation in the Danelaw, 973-1083	159	(27)
D.M. Metcalf
Sokemen and freemen: tenure, status and landscape conservatism in eleventh-century Cambridgeshire	186	(22)
Susan Oosthuizen
Chronicle D, 1067 and women: gendering conquest in eleventh-century England	208	(16)
Pauline Stafford
English influence on the development of the Norwegian kingdom	224	(6)
Peter Sawyer
A millennium in medicine? New medical texts and ideas in England in the eleventh century	230	(13)
Debby Banham
Reading the Bayeux Tapestry through Canterbury eyes	243	(23)
Gale R. Owen-Crocker
The entrepreneurial activities of Herbert Losinga, abbot of Ramsey (1087-91) and first bishop of Norwich	266	(9)
Susan Edgington
Meet the antecessores: lords and land in eleventh-century Suffolk	275	(13)
Ann Williams
The demise of Ramsey Abbey	288	(11)
David Cozens
Cyril Hart: a bibliography	299	(8)
Index	307