Anglo-Saxon England Paperback / softback
Edited by Michael (University of Cambridge) Lapidge, Malcolm (University of Oxford) Godden, Simon (University of Cambridge) Keynes
Part of the Anglo-Saxon England series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:376 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:11/10/2007
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- ISBN:9780521038546
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:376 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:11/10/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521038546
