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Anglo-Saxon England

Malcolm Godden editor Simon Keynes editor Michael Lapidge editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:11th Oct '07

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This volume of Anglo-Saxon England provides fresh perspectives on familiar subjects, across all disciplines - whether literary, philological, legal, historical or palaeographical - in the field.

The discovery in Sonderhausen of a fragmentary psalter glossed in Latin and Old English allows fresh inferences to be drawn regarding the study of the psalter in Anglo-Saxon England, and of the transmission of the corpus of vernacular psalter glosses. A detailed textual and palaeographical study of the Wearmouth-Jarrow bibles leads to the exciting possibility that the hand of Bede can be identified, annotating the text of the Bible which he no doubt played an instrumental role in establishing. Two Latin texts from the circle of Archbishop Wulfstan are published here in full, whilst disciplined philological and historical analysis helps to clarify a puzzling reference in Æthelbert's law-code to the early medieval practice of providing food render for the king. Finally, the volume contains two pioneering essays in the histoire des mentalités. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

ISBN: 9780521038522

Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 20mm

Weight: 536g

360 pages