Anglo-Saxon England Paperback / softback
Edited by Peter (University of Cambridge) Clemoes, Simon (University of Cambridge) Keynes, Michael (University of Cambridge) Lapidge
Part of the Anglo-Saxon England series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:348 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:11/10/2007
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- ISBN:9780521038348
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:348 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:11/10/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521038348
