Anglo-Saxon England Hardback
Edited by Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden, Simon Keynes
Part of the Anglo-Saxon England series
Hardback
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One of the most important primary sources for our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England is the charters and manuscripts which survive from the period before 1066.
In the present book, two complementary essays treat the charters of mid tenth-century English kings, bringing previously unknown documents to light, establishing the circumstances in which they were produced, and demonstrating that changes in practice in the royal chancery had far-reaching effect on all aspects of Anglo-Saxon script and book production.
The question of the medieval representation of women is illuminated by a study of the difficulties which a well-known monastic author, Ælfric, faced in characterizing an Old Testament heroine who used her body to achieve her ends, while a number of traditional assumptions about the property rights of divorced women in England are freshly challenged by close philological analysis of surviving law-codes.
The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:341 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:23/02/1995
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- ISBN:9780521472005
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:341 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:23/02/1995
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- ISBN:9780521472005
