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Anglo-Saxon England

Simon Keynes editor Andy Orchard editor Rosalind Love editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:5th Oct '17

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The forty-fifth volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains articles on Old English Literature, the 'Trumpington Cross', and the Fuller Brooch.

The forty-fifth volume of Anglo-Saxon England focusses on Anglo-Saxon culture and history from the seventh to the seventeenth century, from the recent discovery of the 'Trumpington Cross' to a study of a seventeenth-century Anglo-Saxon Grammar. This volume also addresses the Burghal Hidage and the iconography of the Fuller Brooch.The forty-fifth volume of Anglo-Saxon England focusses on various aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history from the seventh to the seventeenth century. In the field of Old English literature, contributions examine a ninth-century homily fragment, The Dream of the Rood, The Seafarer, and the Old English translation of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae. A contribution which explores references to the senses in a wide range of vernacular texts is complemented by another which reconsiders the iconography of the Fuller Brooch. The network of fortifications recorded in the Burghal Hidage is re-interpreted here as a product of political developments in the later 870s; and a new edition of the 'Ely memoranda' reminds us that the religious houses of the tenth and eleventh centuries functioned also as major agricultural estates. Finally, the contribution of seventeenth-century antiquaries to the development of Anglo-Saxon studies is remembered in a study of an early Anglo-Saxon Grammar.

ISBN: 9781108419253

Dimensions: 234mm x 150mm x 24mm

Weight: 830g

350 pages