Anglo-Saxon England

Peter Clemoes (Curatore)

Simon Keynes (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2007

Areas of study pursued in this book include a revealing grammatical document from eighth-century Northumbria; renewed excavations at Sutton Hoo are reported; the existence of an unnoticed late Old English prose version of parts of Gregory's Dialogues is pointed out. Fresh thinking is directed to topics as interesting and diverse as a design on the Sutton Hoo purse lid; the origin of a little-considered English decorated manuscript containing lives of saints now in Paris; the enigmatic poem Wulf and Eadwacer; word order as an element on Old English poetic style; surviving traces of the teaching which Theodore and Hadrian delivered in England; the career of a Latin text much studied in English schools for its difficult vocabulary; the political aspects of relic cults during the last century and a half of Anglo-Saxon monarchy; and the organization of the invading armies led by Swein Forkbeard and Cnut. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book; there is also a comprehensive index to volumes 11-15.

• Curatore: Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Anglo-Saxon England 34 Volume Paperback Set
• Anno: 2007
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 300 p.
• Dimensioni: 228 x 152 mm
• Peso: 453 gr.
• EAN: 9780521038393

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