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 34 Volume Paperback Set series
Paperback / softback
Description
Throughout the centuries of its existence, Anglo-Saxon society was highly, if not widely, literate: it was a society the functioning of which depended very largely on the written word.
All the essays in this volume throw light on the literacy of Anglo-Saxon England, from the writs which were used as the instruments of government from the eleventh century onwards, to the normative texts which regulated the lives of Benedictine monks and nuns, to the runes stamped on an Anglo-Saxon coin, to the pseudorunes which deliver the coded message of a man to his lover in a well-known Old English poem, to the mysterious writing on an amulet which was apparently worn by a religious for a personal protection from the devil.
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:Paperback / softback
- Pages:432 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:11/10/2007
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- ISBN:9780521038584
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:432 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:11/10/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521038584
