England Before the Conquest: Studies in Primary Sources Presented to Dorothy Whitelock

by Edited by Peter Clemoes , Kathleen Hughes

• ISBN13: 9780521144582
• ISBN10: 0521144582
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Concerned with the basic materials of documents, literature, art, place-names, inscriptions, coins, buildings and archaeological finds, the twenty-two original studies that make up this 1971 text brought fresh understanding to various important topics in Anglo-Saxon scholarship. Native, continental, Scandinavian and Irish elements in five centuries of Anglo-Saxon history are represented. Each contribution exemplifies the methods and expertise of a modern specialisation, but collectively the essays show the value of a joint approach. They form a fitting tribute to a scholar who has kept primary sources to the forefront in her own work and who has illuminated an exceptionally wide range of them.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Preface

List of abbreviations

The writings of

The letters of Pope Boniface V and the mission of Paulinus to Northumbria

Bede's text of Libellus Responsionum of Gregory the Great to Augustine of Canterbury

A background to St Boniface's mission

Evidence for contacts between the churches of the Irish and English from the Synod of Whitby to the Viking Age

The development of military obligations in eighth- and ninth-century England

ælfric and the Old English version of the Ely privilege

Towns in late Anglo-Saxon England: the evidence and some possible lines of enquiry

Regnum and sacerdotium in the early eleventh century Dorothy

Scandinavian settlement in the territory of the Five Boroughs: the place-name evidence in part III, the Grimston-hybrids

How long did the Scandinavian language survive in England

Personal names on the coinage of Edgar

The narrative mode of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle before the Conquest

The classic additions in the Old English Orosius

The orientation system in the Old English Orosius

The ethic of war in old English

The use in Beowulf of earlier heroic verse

Cynewulf's image of the Ascension

The 'Winchester School' before St æthelwold

The handwriting of Archbishop Wulfstan

The nummular brooch from Sulgrave

Repton reconsidered: a study in structural criticism

Archaeology and the beginnings of English society

Index

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