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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 29

2001-02-08 History
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Book Synopsis Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 29 by : Michael Lapidge

Download or read book Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 29 written by Michael Lapidge. This book was released on 2001-02-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editorial policy of Anglo-Saxon England has been to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. This approach is pursued in exemplary fashion by many of the essays in this volume. Fresh light is thrown on the dating and form of Cynewulf's poem The Fates of the Apostles through a comprehensive study of the historical martyrologies of the Carolingian period on which Cynewulf is presumed to have drawn. The literary form of Ælfric's Preface to his translation of Genesis is illustrated through a wide-ranging study of the rhetorical genre of preface-writing in the early Middle Ages (the genre which subsequently was known as the ars dictaminis), and the problems which Ælfric faced and solved in composing a Life of St Æthelthryth are illustrated through detailed comparison of the sources which he utilized. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 12

1986-04-17 History
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Release : 1986-04-17
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Book Synopsis Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 12 by : Peter Clemoes

Download or read book Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 12 written by Peter Clemoes. This book was released on 1986-04-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four very different kinds of Anglo-Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume: traditions, learned and oral, about the settlement of the country, study of foreign-language grammar, interest in exotic jewels as reflections of the glory of God, and a mainly rational attitude to medicine. Publication of no less than three discoveries augments our corpus of manuscript evidence. The nature of Old English poetry is illuminated, and a useful summary of the editorial treatment of textual problems in Beowulf is provided. A re-examination of the accounts of the settlement in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle yields insights into the processes of Anglo-Saxon learned historiography and oral tradition. A thorough-going analysis of an under-studied major work, Bald's Leechbook, demonstrates that the compiler, perhaps in King Alfred's reign, translated selections from a wide range of Latin texts in composing a well-organized treatise directed against the diseases prevalent in his time. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Anglo-Saxon England

1983 Great Britain
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Release : 1983
Genre : Great Britain
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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 20

1992-01-30 History
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Release : 1992-01-30
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Book Synopsis Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 20 by : Michael Lapidge

Download or read book Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 20 written by Michael Lapidge. This book was released on 1992-01-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume illustrates some of the exciting paths of enquiry in Anglo-Saxon studies.

Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 30

2002-07-12 History
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Release : 2002-07-12
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Book Synopsis Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 30 by : Michael Lapidge

Download or read book Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 30 written by Michael Lapidge. This book was released on 2002-07-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pre-eminence of Anglo-Saxon England in its field can be seen as a result of its encouragement of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. Thus this volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface, in which it is shown that the unusually formulaic nature of Boniface's letters is best understood as a reflex of the saint's familiarity with vernacular composition. A wide-ranging historical contextualization of The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle illuminates the way English readers of the later tenth century may have defined themselves in contradistinction to the monstrous unknown, and a fresh reading of the gendering of female portraiture in a famous illustrated manuscript of the Psychomachia of Prudentius (CCCC 23) shows the independent ways in which Anglo-Saxon illustrators were able to respond to their models. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book; and a full index of the contents of volumes 26-30 is provided. (Previous indexes have appeared in volumes 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25.)

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