Anglo-Saxon England (Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 16) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521038405 ISBN 13: 9780521038409

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This volume offers fundamental evidence and discussion illuminating a wide range of important subjects: possible influence of Cicero on Bede's attitude to rhetoric; the probability that Theodore and Hadrian brought a glossary from Italy to England; the traditional concept of the narrator in Old English poetry; the nationality of the author of the Old English poem Genesis B; the conceptions of history controlling the Old English Orosius; the establishment of Square minuscule as the standard English script of the tenth century; criteria for distinguishing between Anglo-Saxon script written in England and script written by Anglo-Saxons on the continent; the grounds for claiming that certain surviving pre-Conquest manuscripts were once at Glastonbury; the extent of the circulation of Prudentius's Psychomachia in Anglo-Saxon England; the regional distribution of names of different origins among the moneyers of the Anglo-Danish era. Early and late periods and north and south thus find a place in this searching treatment of intellectual, cultural and settlement issues. The usual comprehensive bibliography rounds off the book.

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Book Description:

This volume offers fundamental evidence and discussion illuminating a wide range of important subjects in Anglo-Saxon history. Early and late periods and north and south find a place in this searching treatment of intellectual, cultural and settlement issues. The usual comprehensive bibliography rounds off the book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521038405
• ISBN 13: 9780521038409
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Clemoes Peter, Keynes Simon, Lapidge Michael