Anglo-Saxon England

Peter Clemoes editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:11th Oct '07

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Anglo-Saxon England cover

Manuscripts are the form of evidence most studied in this volume of Anglo-Saxon England.

Manuscripts are the form of evidence most studied in this volume. Among others, the likely seventh- and eighth-century English ownership of a fifth-century copy of a Hieronymian commentary is reconstructed, and an edition and full discussion of the eighth-century Anglian collection of royal genealogies and regnal lists advance our understanding of this difficult material.Manuscripts are the form of evidence most studied in this volume: the likely seventh- and eighth-century English ownership of a fifth-century copy of a Hieronymian commentary is meticulously reconstructed; an edition and full discussion of the eighth-century Anglian collection of royal genealogies and regnal lists advance our understanding of this difficult material; and it is shown that most of the drawings in the Junius codex of Old English poetry probably derived from an illustrated copy of an Old Saxon poem on Genesis which came to this country in the middle of the ninth century. Vernacular literature is well represented: two leading features of narrative technique are examined, one in Beowulf, the greatest surviving poem of the age, and the other in the works of Ælfric, perhaps its greatest writer of prose. A wide-ranging survey of some of the main problems in the modern-day study of Anglo-Saxon coinage makes a fundamental contribution both to that study itself and to the understanding of it by those in other specializations.

ISBN: 9780521038621

Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 19mm

Weight: 524g

344 pages