Anglo-Saxon England

Peter Clemoes (Curatore)

Simon Keynes (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2007

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.

• Curatore: Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Anglo-Saxon England
• Anno: 2007
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 376 p.
• Dimensioni: 228 x 152 mm
• Peso: 557 gr.
• EAN: 9780521038409

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