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Hardcover
Published: 31st December 2004
ISBN: 9780521332026
Number Of Pages: 348
Learn moreFour 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.
| List of illustrations | |
| Record of the third conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Toronto, 20G++3 April 1987 | |
| The Old Frisian component in Holthausen's Altenglisches etymologisches W+Â rterbuch | |
| The botanical lexicon of the Old English | |
| ++lfric's use of etymologies | |
| A Frankish scholar in tenth-century England: Frithegod of Canterbury/Fredegaud of Brioude | |
| The Yale fragments of the West Saxon gospels | |
| A fragment of an Anglo-Saxon liturgical manuscript at the University of Missouri Linda | |
| Old English prose before and during the reign of Alfred | |
| Winchester and the standardization of Old English vocabulary | |
| The Latin textual basis of Genesis A | |
| Anglo-Saxon medicine and magic | |
| Evidence for knowledge of Greek in Anglo-Saxon England | |
| A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon lawsuits | |
| Bibliography for 1987 | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780521332026
ISBN-10: 0521332028
Series: Anglo-Saxon England
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 348
Published: 31st December 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.2
x 15.2
Weight (kg): 0.68
