Anglo-Saxon England

Author(s)

• Clemoes, Peter
• Lapidge, Michael
• Godden, Malcolm
• Keynes, Simon

Bibliographic Information

Anglo-Saxon England

edited by Peter Clemoes ... [et al.]

Cambridge University Press, 1972-

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Note

Vols. 19-33: edited by Michael Lapidge ... [et al.]

Vols. 34-41: edited by Malcolm Godden ... [et al.]

Vols. 42-47: edited by Simon Keynes ... [et al.]

Includes bibliographicail references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9780521085571

Description

The contents of this first volume typify the range of interests that will be covered throughout the series. The topics treated include the first two centuries of Christianity in East Anglia; geographical knowledge in King Alfred's court; the part played by Bishop AEthelwold's school at Winchester in the period of tenth-century monastic reform in standardizing the vernacular and in studying and composing Latin poetry; allegory in Old English literature; the place of origin of the Book of Kells; the source of a fourteenth-century Icelandic saga writer's picture of Edward the Confessor; the principles of the modern study of pre-Conquest architecture; and the contemporary state of our knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon house. There is also a bibliography which lists all books, articles and reviews published in the field during 1971, and which is continued annually in the series.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• Preface
• 1. The pre-Viking age church in East Anglia Dorothy Whitelock
• 2. An interim revision of episcopal dates for the province of Canterbury, 850-950: part I Mary Anne O'Donovan
• 3. The relationship between geographical information in the Old English Orosius and Latin texts other than Orosius Janet M. Bately
• 4. The origin of Standard Old English and AEthelwold's school at Winchester Helmut Gneuss
• 5. Three Latin poems from AEthelwold's school at Winchester Michael Lapidge
• 6. Beowulf the headstrong Kemp Malone
• 7. The diet and digestion of allegory in Andreas David Hamilton
• 8. Exodus and the treasure of Pharaoh John F. Vickrey
• 9. The vision of paradise: a symbolic reading of the Old English Phoenix Daniel G. Calder
• 10. Three versions of the Jonah story: an investigation of narrative technique in Old English homilies Paul E. Szarmach
• 11. Conceivable clues to twelve Old English words Herbert Dean Meritt
• 12. The manuscript of the Leiden Riddle M. B. Parkes
• 13. Northumbria and the Book of Kells T. J. Brown
• Appendix C. D. Verey
• 14. The Icelandic saga of Edward the Confessor: the hagiographic sources Christine Fell
• 15. Structural criticism: a plea for more systematic study of Anglo-Saxon buildings H. M. Taylor
• 16. The Anglo-Saxon house: a new review P. V. Addyman
• 17. Bibliography for 1971 Martin Biddle, Alan Brown, T. J. Brown and Peter Hunter Blair.

Volume

v. 38 ISBN 9780521194068

Description

Anglo-Saxon England was the first publication to consistently embrace all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and which promotes the more unusual interests - in music or medicine or education, for example. Articles in volume 38 include: The Passio Andreae and The Dream of the Rood by Thomas D. Hill, Beowulf off the Map by Alfred Hiatt, Numerical Composition and Beowulf: A Re-consideration by Yvette Kisor, 'The Landed Endowment of the Anglo-Saxon Minster at Hanbury (Worcs.) by Steven Bassett, Scapegoating the Secular Clergy: The Hermeneutic Style as a Form of Monastic Self-Definition by Rebecca Stephenson, Understanding Numbers in MS London, British Library Harley by Daniel Anlezark, Tudor Antiquaries and the Vita AEdwardi Regis by Henry Summerso and Earl Godwine's Ship by Simon Keynes and Rosalind Love. A comprehensive bibliography concludes the volume, listing publications on Anglo-Saxon England during 2008.

Table of Contents

• 1. The Passio Andreae and The Dream of the Rood Thomas D. Hill
• 2. Beowulf off the map Alfred Hiatt
• 3. Numerical composition and Beowulf: a re-consideration Yvette Kisor
• 4. 'The landed endowment of the Anglo-Saxon minster at Hanbury (Worcs.)' Steven Bassett
• 5. Scapegoating the secular clergy: the hermeneutic style as a form of monastic self-definition Rebecca Stephenson
• 6. Understanding numbers in MS London, British Library Harley Daniel Anlezark
• 7. Tudor antiquaries and the Vita AEdwardi Regis Henry Summerso
• 8. Earl Godwine's ship Simon Keynes and Rosalind Love
• Bibliography.

Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9780521202183

Description

Place-names, charters, coins and manuscripts are among the forms of evidence studied in this second volume. The topics range from the course of English settlement in the south-east to the power and influence of a leading aristocratic family in the tenth century and the possible presence of Jews in England in the eleventh. An important liturgical manuscript, the Bosworth Psalter, is more securely localized; the exemplars of the Vercelli Book and its probable area of origin are clarified. Several motifs in Old English literature are elucidated, and the influence of Christian doctrine on the poetry is considered in a survey of scholarly opinion and in a lively discussion on Beowulf. Bede's achievements as a scholar and teacher are examined 1300 years after his birth. The bibliography, noting all contributions to Anglo-Saxon studies in 1972, continues the annual series begun in volume 1.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• Preface
• 1. Place-names from ham, distinguished from hamm names, in relation to the settlement of Kent, Surrey and Sussex John McN. Dodgson
• 2. The beginning of the year in England, c. 500-900 Kenneth Harrison
• 3. Bede and medieval civilization Gerald Bonner
• 4. An interim revision of episcopal dates for the province of Canterbury, 850-950: part II Mary Anne O'Donovan
• 5. Athelstan 'Half King' and his family Cyril Hart
• 6. Some Irish evidence for the date of the Crux coins of AEthelred II Michael Dolley
• 7. The round, cap-shaped hats depicted on Jews in BM Cotton Claudius B. iv Ruth Mellinkoff
• 8. A rediscovered medieval inscribed ring Elisabeth Okasha
• 9. The origin of the Bosworth Psalter P. M. Korhammer
• 10. The compilation of the Vercelli Book D. G. Scragg
• 11. Portents and events at Christ's birth: comments on Vercelli V and VI and the Old English Martyrology J. E. Cross
• 12. An Old English penitential motif M. R. Godden
• 13. The cross as Christ's weapon: the influence of heroic literary tradition on The Dream of the Rood Michael D. Cherniss
• 14. The thematic significance of enta geweorc and related imagery in The Wanderer P. J. Frankis
• 15. The influence of Christian doctrine and exegesis on Old English poetry: an estimate of the current state of scholarship Phillip B. Rollinson
• 16. Allegorical, typological or neither? Three short papers on the allegorical approach to Beowulf and a discussion
• 17. Bibliography for 1972 Martin Biddle, Alan Brown, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton and Peter Hunter Blair.

Volume

v. 3 ISBN 9780521205740

Description

The Anglo-Saxons' sense of the past, their colour vocabulary and their ties of kinship are among the topics considered in this third volume. Evidence for contemporary ecclesiastical architecture is extracted from an Anglo-Latin poem and evidence for the post-Conquest Anglo-Saxon emigration to Byzantium from an Icelandic saga. A prominent critic of Old English literature provides a reconsideration of The Seafarer. A review article surveys the work of the previous twenty years on Anglo-Saxon charters. The bibliography lists all books, articles and significant reviews published in any branch of Anglo-Saxon studies during 1973.

Table of Contents

• List of figures
• Preface
• 1. Cross-Channel language ties R. Derolez
• 2. Old English colour classification: where do matters stand? Nigel F. Barley
• 3. Germanic and Roman antiquity and the sense of the past in Anglo-Saxon England Michael Hunter
• 4. The influence of the catechetical narratio on Old English and some other medieval literature Virginia Day
• 5. The concept of the hall in Old English poetry Kathryn Hume
• 6. Second thoughts on the interpretation of The Seafarer John C. Pope
• 7. God's presence through grace as the theme of Cynewulf's Christ II and the relationship of this theme to Christ I and Christ III Colin Chase
• 8. King Alfred's aestel Bruce Harbert
• 9. Laurence Nowell's transcript of BM Cotton Otho B. xi Raymond J. S. Grant
• 10. AEthelwold's translation of the Regula Sancti Benedicti and its Latin exemplar Mechthild Gretsch
• 11. Social idealism in AElfric's Colloquy Earl R. Anderson
• 12. The architectural interest of AEthelwulf's De Abbatibus H. M. Taylor
• 13. Towards a revision of the internal chronology of the coinages of Edward the Elder and Plegmund Michael Dolley
• 14. The Icelandic saga of Edward the Confessor: its version of the Anglo-Saxon emigration to Byzantium Christine Fell
• 15. Kinship in Anglo-Saxon England H. R. Loyn
• 16. Anglo-Saxon charters: the work of the last twenty years Nicholas Brooks
• 17. Bibliography for 1973 Martin Biddle, Alan Brown, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton and Peter Hunter Blair.

Volume

v. 4 ISBN 9780521208680

Description

The materials studied in this volume extend from small pieces of evidence made to reveal Frankish influence on the beginnings of Bath Abbey to a post-Conquest gradual recognized as unique testimony to the pre-Conquest music of Christ Church, Canterbury. An arcane style of Latin poetry much in vogue in tenth-century England is given a full account; likewise an eleventh-century Canterbury copy of a large anthology of Latin poetry for classroom use is properly described. A discussion of the aesthetic principles governing the use of colour in Anglo-Saxon manuscript illumination raises artistic questions not usually considered separately. The corpus of known Anglo-Saxon moneyers is further rectified; late Anglo-Saxon metal-work is surveyed; two decades of post-Stenton debate about the Viking settlements are reviewed; a system of standardizing short titles for Old English texts is presented and there is the usual bibliography of the previous year's corpus of Anglo-Saxon studies.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. Continental influence at Bath monastery in the seventh century Patrick Sims-Williams
• 2. Linguistic facts and the interpretation of Old English poetry Bruce Mitchell
• 3. The garments that honour the cross in The Dream of the Rood James Smith
• 4. Figural narrative in Cynewulf's Juliana Joseph Wittig
• 5. Old English composite homilies from Winchester M. R. Godden
• 6. The hermeneutic style in tenth-century Anglo-Latin literature Michael Lapidge
• 7. A Canterbury classbook of the mid-eleventh century (the 'Cambridge Songs' manuscript) A. G. Rigg and G. R. Wieland
• 8. An unknown English Benedictine gradual of the eleventh century K. D. Hartzell
• 9. Some aesthetic principles in the use of colour in Anglo-Saxon art J. J. G. Alexander
• 10. Corrections to Hildebrand's corpus of Anglo-Saxon moneyers: from Cnut to Edward the Confessor Veronica Smart
• 11. Late Anglo-Saxon metal-work: an assessment David A. Hinton
• 12. The Vikings in England: a review Gillian Fellows Jensen
• 13. Short titles of Old English texts Bruce Mitchell, Christopher Ball and Angus Cameron
• 14. Bibliography for 1974 Martin Biddle, Alan Brown, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton and Peter Hunter Blair.

Volume

v. 5 ISBN 9780521212700

Description

Manuscripts are the form of evidence most studied in this volume: the likely seventh- and eighth-century English ownership of a fifth-century copy of a Hieronymian commentary is meticulously reconstructed; an edition and full discussion of the eighth-century Anglian collection of royal genealogies and regnal lists advance our understanding of this difficult material; and it is shown that most of the drawings in the Junius codex of Old English poetry probably derived from an illustrated copy of an Old Saxon poem on Genesis which came to this country in the middle of the ninth century. Vernacular literature is well represented: two leading features of narrative technique are examined, one in Beowulf, the greatest surviving poem of the age, and the other in the works of AElfric, perhaps its greatest writer of prose. A wide-ranging survey of some of the main problems in the modern-day study of Anglo-Saxon coinage makes a fundamental contribution both to that study itself and to the understanding of it by those in other specializations.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• Preface
• 1. Cuthswith, seventh-century abbess of Inkberrow, near Worcester, and the Wurzburg manuscript of Jerome on Ecclesiastes Patrick Sims-Williams
• 2. The Anglian collection of royal genealogies and regnal lists David N. Dumville
• 3. The authenticating voice in Beowulf Stanley B. Greenfield
• 4. The ideal of men dying with their lord in the Germania and in The Battle of Maldon Rosemary Woolf
• 5. AElfric's use of discourse in some saints' lives Ruth Waterhouse
• 6. Caesarius of Arles and Old English literature Joseph B. Trahern Jr
• 7. A supplement to Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon N. R. Ker
• 8. The probable derivation of most of the illustrations in Junius II from an illustrated Old Saxon Genesis Barbara Raw
• 9. The palaeography of the Parker manuscript of the Chronicle, laws and Sedulius, and historiography at Winchester in the late ninth and tenth centuries M. B. Parkes
• 10. Some problems in interpreting Anglo-Saxon coinage Stewart Lyon
• 11. Beginnings continued: a decade of studies of Old English prose Milton McC. Gatch
• 12. Bibliography for 1975 Martin Biddle, Alan Brown, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton and Peter Hunter Blair
• Index to volumes 1-5.

Volume

v. 6 ISBN 9780521217019

Description

Work in this volume offers insights into the Anglo-Saxons' literature, both Latin and vernacular, their study of Latin, their documents, art and artefacts, agricultural practices, their cognizance of Roman predecessors, and later Icelandic knowledge of them. The literary contributions include a major study of Aldhelm's Latin prose style, arguing against its supposed 'Irishness' and placing it firmly in the main tradition of rhetorical amplification coming through from ancient times. In the field of vernacular poetry a prevalent, but illogical, interpretation of a thematically significant obscurity in Beowulf is challenged, and Cynewulf's penitential concern is emphasized. The physical remains of the eighth-century watermill at Tamworth and a compiled survey of early medieval mill terminology are correlated. Old English place-names containing Latin loan words are reconsidered. The sources of a fourteenth-century Icelander's knowledge of late Anglo-Saxon history are further delineated in a third, concluding article on the Jatvarthar saga. There is the usual bibliography of the previous year's studies in all branches of Anglo-Saxon.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. Latin loan-words in Old English place-names Margaret Gelling
• 2. The parts of an Anglo-Saxon mill Philip Rahtz and Donald Bullough
• 3. Aldhelm's prose style and its origins Michael Winterbottom
• 4. The Latin and Old English glosses in the ars Tatuini Vivien Law
• 5. The narrative structure of Hengest's revenge in Beowulf John F. Vickrey
• 6. The penitential motif in Cynewulf's Fates of the Apostles and in his epilogues Robert C. Rice
• 7. The text of the Canterbury fragment of Werferth's translation of Gregory's Dialogues and its relation to the other manuscripts David Yerkes
• 8. Two lost documents of King Athelstan Eric E. Barker
• 9. The Leofric Missal and tenth-century English art Robert Deshman
• 10. The thematic structure of the Sermo Lupi Stephanie Hollis
• 11. Napier's 'Wulfstan' homily xxx: its sources, its relationship to the Vercelli Book and its style D. G. Scragg
• 12. The aecerbot charm and its Christian user Thomas D. Hill
• 13. English history and Norman legend in the Icelandic saga of Edward the Confessor Christine Fell
• 14. Old English literature and the liturgy: problems and potential Milton McC. Gatch
• 15. Sutton Hoo published: a review Martin Biddle, Alan Binns, J. M. Cameron, D. M. Metcalf, R. I. Page, Charles Sparrow and F. L. Warren
• 16. Bibliography for 1976 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton and Simon Keynes.

Volume

v. 7 ISBN 9780521221641

Description

What scientific observations is Bede likely to have brought to bear on the Easter controversy? What interest did the Anglo-Saxons take in precious stones and what did they know about them? Are heroic values rejected in one of Cynewulf's poems? What was Anglo-Saxon carpentry like? These are among the questions taken up in this volume. Observations to determine the day of the equinox in Bede's Northumbria; Anglo-Saxon lapidary knowledge (particularly in the Old English Lapidary); lists of saints' resting-places as an aspect of the cult of saints in the intellectual and social life of Anglo-Saxon England; the symbolism of the Pacx/Pax/Paxs coin legend; the construction of some wooden roofs, walls, floors, window-frames, doors and, especially, the frame of a spire: these topics are subjected to keen examination - the last an often neglected line of enquiry. In the field of vernacular poetry there are analyses of the Beowulf poet's artistic point of view when treating his hero's relationship to the Waemundings, and of Cynewulf's when treating pagan heroic society in Juliana.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. Easter cycles and the equinox in the British Isles Kenneth Harrison
• 2. Lapidary traditions in Anglo-Saxon England: part I, the background
• the Old English Lapidary Peter Kitson
• 3. Lists of saints' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England D. W. Rollason
• 4. Beowulf, Wiglaf and the Waegmundings Norman E. Eliason
• 5. Cynewulf's devaluation of heroic tradition in Juliana Claude Schneider
• 6. The genesis of The Battle of Maldon N. F. Blake
• 7. Affective language, especially alliterating qualifiers, in AElfric's Life of St Alban Ruth Waterhouse
• 8. Leland's transcript of AElfric's Glossary Ronald E. Buckalew
• 9. An interpretation of the Pacx, Pax and Paxs pennies Simon Keynes
• 10. The Anglo-Saxon origins of Norwich: the problems and approaches Alan Carter
• 11. Anglo-Saxon carpentry Cecil A. Hewett
• 12. Self-contained units in composite manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon period P. R. Robinson
• 13. Manuscripts containing English decoration 871-1066, catalogued and illustrated: a review Linda L. Brownrigg
• 14. Bibliography for 1977 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton and Simon Keynes.

Volume

v. 8 ISBN 9780521227889

Description

Through close analysis and careful weighing of evidence the authors of this volume tackle a wide range of questions in Anglo-Saxon history and culture and often arrive at opinions different from those generally accepted. Contributions are made on subjects as diverse as the Anglo-Saxon settlement, early Northumbrian history, the 'weapon' vocabulary of Beowulf, world history in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a woman's stock of clothes in the mid-tenth century and vernacular preaching before AElfric. Historical studies are represented by an examination of the position of the aetheling in matters of royal succession, by a refutation of the doctrine of muddle in the records of earliest Northumbria and by an identification of the sources of the Chronicle's knowledge of world history, showing in particular that the compilation of the Chronicle and the composition of the Old English Orosius are not likely to have been closely connected, as has often been thought. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. The aetheling: a study in Anglo-Saxon constitutional history David N. Dumville
• 2. The dates of Deira Molly Miller
• 3. Bede and the church paintings at Wearmouth-Jarrow Paul Meyvaert
• 4. 'Weapons' in Beowulf: an analysis of the nominal compounds and an evaluation of the poet's use of them Caroline Brady
• 5. Cain's monstrous progeny in Beowulf: part I, Noachic tradition Ruth Mellinkoff
• 6. Cynewulf's traditions about the apostles in Fates of the Apostles J. E. Cross
• 7. World history in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: its sources and its separateness from the Old English Orosius Janet M. Bately
• 8. Wynflaed's wardrobe Gale R. Owen
• 9. The corpus of vernacular homilies and prose saints' lives before AElfric D. G. Scragg
• 10. Manuscript evidence for knowledge of the poems of Venantius Fortunatus in late Anglo-Saxon England R. W. Hunt
• Appendix: Knowledge of the poems in the earlier period Michael Lapidge
• 11. The archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England in the pagan period: a review Catherine Hills
• 12. Short titles of Old English texts: addenda and corrigenda Bruce Mitchell, Christopher Ball and Angus Cameron
• 13. Bibliography for 1978 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton and Simon Keynes.

Volume

v. 9 ISBN 9780521234498

Description

This volume mostly deals with manuscripts, directly or indirectly. Of outstanding importance is the first ever attempt to list all the surviving manuscripts that were written or owned in Anglo-Saxon England. There are studies of particular manuscripts: three Latin poems are added to the very few known to have been composed in the time of Athelstan the first; the damaged page in the Exeter Book of Old English poetry is made to yield a better text than before; the distinctive sense of scholarship and literary style that went into a late Old English editing of one of King Alfred's prose works is revealed. Another study assembles the widely scattered evidence for slave raiding and slave trading in England from the Anglo-Saxon settlement to the advent of the Normans. Other interpretative contributions examine word order in Beowulf and make further advances in the critical appreciation of The Seafarer.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. A preliminary list of manuscripts written or owned in England up to 1100 Helmut Gneuss
• 2. Some Latin poems as evidence for the reign of Athelstan Michael Lapidge
• 3. Slave raiding and slave trading in early England David Pelteret
• 4. A 'Winchester School' wall-painting at Nether Wallop, Hampshire Richard Gem and Pamela Tudor-Craig
• 5. The text of a damaged passage in the Exeter Book: Advent (Christ I) 18-32 John C. Pope
• 6. Auxiliary and verbal in Beowulf Alan Bliss
• 7. Cain's monstrous progeny in Beowulf: part II, post-diluvian survival Ruth Mellinkoff
• 8. Sylf, seasons, structure and genre in The Seafarer Stanley B. Greenfield
• 9. The lexical and syntactic variants shared by two of the later manuscripts of King Alfred's translation of Gregory's Cura Pastoralis Dorothy M. Horgan
• 10. The scholarly recovery of the significance of Anglo-Saxon records in prose and verse: a new bibliography E. G. Stanley
• 11. Farming in the Anglo-Saxon landscape: an archaeologist's review P. J. Fowler
• 12. Bibliography for 1979 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton and Simon Keynes.

Volume

v. 10 ISBN 9780521241779

Description

Among topics covered in this volume, two important authorship questions are settled; the discovery of a major Northumbrian settlement is reported; the conceptions of Old English literature which have prevailed during the last three hundred years are paraded for critical inspection and substantial contributions are made to our knowledge of subjects as diverse as a monastic library of the first rank, eighth-century Latin poetic activity, metrical technique and literary convention in our greatest surviving vernacular poem; the family basis of political power in the tenth century; late Anglo-Saxon legal concepts; and scientific exposition in the early eleventh century. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book (with a separate section onomastic section). There is also an index to volumes 6 - 10, complementing the index found in volume 5.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. Identifiable books from the pre-Conquest library of Malmesbury Abbey Rodney Thomson
• 2. Milred of Worcester's collection of Latin epigrams and its continental counterparts Patrick Sims-Williams
• 3. The prefix un- and the metrical grammar of Beowulf Calvin B. Kendall
• 4. Hrothgar's 'sermon' in Beowulf as parental wisdom Elaine Tuttle Hansen
• 5. Lexical evidence for the authorship of the prose psalms in the Paris Psalter Janet M. Bately
• 6. Byrhtferth of Ramsey and the early sections of the Historia Regum attributed to Symeon of Durham Michael Lapidge
• 7. Byrhtferth's Enchiridion and the computus in Oxford, St John's College Peter S. Baker
• 8. Princeps Merciorum gentis: the family, career and connections of AElfhere, ealdorman of Mercia 956-83 A. Williams
• 9. The laws of Cnut and the history of Anglo-Saxon royal promises Pauline Stafford
• 10. Sprouston, Roxburghshire: an Anglo-Saxon settlement discovered by air reconnaissance J. K. S. St Joseph
• 11. Histories and surveys of Old English literature: a chronological review Daniel G. Calder
• 12. Bibliography for 1980 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton, C. R. E. Coutts and Simon Keynes
• Index to volumes 6-10.

Volume

v. 11 ISBN 9780521249188

Description

Several unusual fields of study are extensively explored in this volume: a distinctive politico-religious cult, penitentials, inscriptions, the Sutton Hoo whetstone and medical knowledge; while treatments of more 'standard' subjects like late Anglo-Saxon law, King Alfred's Boethius and Beowulf, lead to unusual conclusions. A phenomenon special to Anglo-Saxon England is given a full and separate treatment in a careful and imaginative analysis of the ecclesiastical and political significance of the cults of murdered royal saints. Elizabeth Okasha's Hand-List which has been indispensable to any work on Anglo-Saxon non-runic inscriptions for some time has been refreshed by the description and illustration of twenty-six additional items and by other addenda and corrigenda. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. The cults of murdered royal saints in Anglo-Saxon England D. W. Rollason
• 2. The tradition of penitentials in Anglo-Saxon England Allen J. Frantzen
• 3. Cnut's law code of 1018 A. G. Kennedy
• 4. A supplement to Hand-List of Anglo-Saxon Non-Runic Inscriptions Elisabeth Okasha
• 5. The Sutton Hoo whetstone sceptre: a study in iconography and cultural milieu Michael J. Enright
• 6. The sources of medical knowledge in Anglo-Saxon England M. L. Cameron
• 7. King Alfred's Boethius and its Latin sources: a reconsideration Joseph S. Wittig
• 8. 'Warriors' in Beowulf: an analysis of the nominal compounds and an evaluation of the poet's use of them Caroline Brady
• 9. The formative stages of Beowulf textual scholarship: part I Birte Kelly
• 10. Bibliography for 1981 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton, C. R. E. Coutts and Simon Keynes.

Volume

v. 12 ISBN 9780521332026

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.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. The settlement of England in Bede and the Chronicle Patrick Sims-Williams
• 2. The study of Latin grammar in eighth-century Southumbria Vivien Law
• 3. Lapidary traditions in Anglo-Saxon England: part II, Bede's Explanatio Apocalypsis and related works Peter Kitson
• 4. A fragment of Bede's De Temporum Ratione in the public record office Michael Roper
• 5. A fragment of an early-tenth-century Anglo-Saxon manuscript and its significance M. B. Parkes
• 6. Neumed Boethian metra from Canterbury: a newly recovered leaf of Cambridge, University Library, Gg. 5.35 (the 'Cambridge Songs' manuscript) M. T. Gibson, M. Lapidge and C. Page
• 7. Bald's Leechbook: its sources and their use in its compilation M. L. Cameron
• 8. Literary art and oral tradition in Old English and Serbian poetry John Miles Foley
• 9. A reading of Andreas: the poem as poem Edward B. Irving Jr
• 10. The formative stages of Beowulf textual scholarship: part II Birte Kelly
• 11. Bibliography for 1982 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, Mark Blackburn, T. J. Brown, C. R. E. Coutts and Simon Keynes.

Volume

v. 15 ISBN 9780521332057

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. Record of the second conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Cambridge, 19-23 August 1985 Stanley B. Greenfield
• 2. Wulf and Eadwacer: all passion pent Stanley B. Greenfield
• 3. Bede the grammarian and the scope of grammatical studies in eighth-century Northumbria Martin Irvine
• 4. The school of Theodore and Hadrian Michael Lapidge
• 5. The third book of the Bella Parisiacae Urbis by Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Pres and its Old English gloss Patrizia Lendinara
• 6. Relic-cults as an instrument of royal policy c. 900-c. 1050 D. W. Rollason
• 7. The armies of Swein Forkbeard and Cnut: leding or lid? Niels Lund
• 8. Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, lat. I086I and the scriptorium of Christ Church, Canterbury Michelle P. Brown
• 9. Anglo-Saxon objectives at Sutton Hoo, 1985 M. O. H. Carver
• 10. Word order and poetic style: auxiliary and verbal in The Metres of Boethius Daniel Donoghue
• 11. A third Old English translation of part of Gregory's Dialogues, this time embedded in the Rule of Chrodegang Brigitte Langefeld
• 12. Bibliography for 1985 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, Mark Blackburn, C. R. E. Coutts, David N. Dumville, Sarah Foot and Simon Keynes
• Index to volumes 11-15.

Volume

v. 16 ISBN 9780521353465

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. Bede and Cicero Roger Ray
• 2. Early Anglo-Saxon glossaries and the school of Canterbury J. D. Pheifer
• 3. The traditional narrator and the `I heard' formulas in Old English poetry Ward Parks
• 4. The metre of Genesis B David J. G. Lewis
• 5. Adaptation and anweald in the Old English Orosius William A. Kretzschmar Jr
• 6. English Square minuscule script: the background and earliest phases David N. Dumville
• 7. An Anglo-Saxon fragment of Justinus's Epitome Julia Crick
• 8. Two pre-Conquest manuscripts from Glastonbury Abbey James P. Carley
• 9. The Anglo-Saxon manuscripts of Prudentius's Psychomachia Gernot R. Wieland
• 10. Moneyers of the late Anglo-Saxon coinage: the Danish dynasty 1017-42 Veronica J. Smart
• 11. Bibliography for 1986 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, Mark Blackburn, C. R. E. Coutts, David N. Dumville, Sarah Foot and Simon Keynes.

Volume

v. 17 ISBN 9780521365710

Description

This volume explores many fundamental questions regarding Anglo-Saxon history. Among those considered is the question of did the earliest English prose really divide into a Mercian tradition and a separate West Saxon one? What is the full roll-call of extant texts containing late Old English 'Winchester' words? How far was Anglo-Saxon medicine hocus-pocus and how far the fruit of deliberate experimentation? How much Greek vocabulary was known in Anglo-Saxon England, and how was it known and how used? How did Anglo-Saxon land law work in practice? Advances in scholarship, application of modern scientific knowledge of a type not normally available, fresh directions of thought, original analysis, stricter criteria and additions to the stock of primary evidence all characterize this book. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. Record of the third conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Toronto, 20-3 April 1987
• 2. The Old Frisian component in Holthausen's Altenglisches etymologisches Woerterbuch Rolf H. Bremmer Jr
• 3. The botanical lexicon of the Old English Herbarium Maria Amalia D'Aronco
• 4. AElfric's use of etymologies Joyce Hill
• 5. A Frankish scholar in tenth-century England: Frithegod of Canterbury/Fredegaud of Brioude Michael Lapidge
• 6. The Yale fragments of the West Saxon gospels Roy Michael Liuzza
• 7. A fragment of an Anglo-Saxon liturgical manuscript at the University of Missouri Linda Ehrsam Voigts
• 8. Old English prose before and during the reign of Alfred Janet M. Bately
• 9. Winchester and the standardization of Old English vocabulary Walter Hofstetter
• 10. The Latin textual basis of Genesis A Paul G. Remley
• 11. Anglo-Saxon medicine and magic M. L. Cameron
• 12. Evidence for knowledge of Greek in Anglo-Saxon England Mary Catherine Bodden
• 13. A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon lawsuits Patrick Wormald
• 14. Bibliography for 1987 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, Mark Blackburn, C. R. E. Coutts, David N. Dumville, Sarah Foot and Simon Keynes.

Volume

v. 18 ISBN 9780521388818

Description

This volume makes important contributions to our stock of primary manuscript evidence: it recovers parts of six previously unrecorded charters and analyses two sets of fragments, each unique in its own way - two leaves of Old Testament text written in Mercia or Canterbury early in the ninth century and six leaves of a missal written at Worcester in the mid-eleventh century. Significant issues in both ecclesiastical and secular history are tackled too - the location of Lindsey, the fate of Rutland during the Scandinavian invasions and settlements, and the state of our knowledge of the archaeology of the Five Boroughs of Leicester, Derby, Nottingham, Stamford and Lincoln. Vernacular literature receives its fair share of attention as well: the relationship between author and audience is examined in the cases of a biblical poem and of the prose homiliary which is still least well understood among the principle ones extant. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. Lincoln and the Anglo-Saxon see of Lindsey (with an appendix Steven Bassett
• Appendix: the name Lindsey Margaret Gelling
• 2. A new fragment of a ninth-century English bible Michelle P. Brown
• 3. An eleventh-century English missal fragment in the British Library K. D. Hartzell
• 4. The unknowable audience of the Blickling Homilies Milton McC. Gatch
• 5. Holofernes's head: tacen and teaching in the Old English Judith Ann W. Astell
• 6. Rutland and the Scandinavian settlements: the place-name evidence Barrie Cox
• 7. The Five Boroughs of the Danelaw: a review of present knowledge R. A. Hall
• 8. The lost cartulary of Abbotsbury Simon Keynes
• 9. Bibliography for 1988 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, Mark Blackburn, Sarah Foot, Alexander Rumble and Simon Keynes.

Volume

v. 19 ISBN 9780521390873

Description

The principal emphasis of this book is the relationship between England and its neighbours in the pre-Conquest period. It brings together fresh information of England's place in the early medieval world, with essays concentrating on finance and trade, travel, learning and education. A detailed analysis of the Old English vocabulary for money and wealth shows different usage over two centuries reflects a developing awareness, particularly on the part of AElfric, of the relationship between wealth and power. Medical recipes in Bald's Leechbook, which stipulate the use of exotic spices from Arabia, have stimulated a fascinating essay on how these ingredients may have made their way from Arabia and the Mediterranean to England. Other essays in this wide-ranging book examine the Old English Rune Poem in the context of its two later Scandinavian analogues; the use in England of Jerome's Hebracium translation of the psalter; and the study in English schools of the difficult verse of Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Pres. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• Editors' preface
• 1. Record of the fourth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Durham, 7-11 August 1989
• 2. Bald's Leechbook and cultural interactions in Anglo-Saxon England M. L. Cameron
• 3. Place-names as a reflection of cultural interaction Gillian Fellows-Jensen
• 4. The Anglo-Saxon and Norse Rune Poems: a comparative study Margaret Clunies Ross
• 5. Money, power and morality in late Anglo-Saxon England M. R. Godden
• 6. Hebrew and the Hebraicum in late Anglo-Saxon England Sarah Larratt Keefer and David R. Burrows
• 7. England and Aquitaine in the century before the Norman Conquest George Beech
• 8. Oaks, ships, riddles and the Old English Rune Poem Paul Sorrell
• 9. Bones of contention: the context of AElfric's homily on St Vincent Susan E. Irvine
• 10. The Abbo glossary in London, British Library, Cotton Domitian i Patrizia Lendinara
• 11. The production of de luxe manuscripts and the patronage of King Cnut and Queen Emma T. A. Heslop
• 12. Archbishop Sigeric's journey to Rome in 990 Veronica Ortenberg
• 13. Bibliography for 1989 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, Mark Blackburn, Sarah Foot, Alexander Rumble and Simon Keynes.

Volume

v. 20 ISBN 9780521413800

Description

This book illustrates some of the exciting paths of enquiry being explored in many different fields of Anglo-Saxon studies - archaeology, legal history, palaeography, Old English syntax and poetic, Latin learning with its many reflexes in Old English prose literature, and others. In all these fields it is clear that fresh perspectives may be achieved by examining even well-known objects and texts in the light of modern approaches and scholarship. Several studies concentrate on aspects of early Anglo-Saxon civilization: the settlement at Mucking, Essex; the iconography of the famous gold coin struck in the name of Bishop Liudhard; the early Anglo-Saxon law on adultery; and a reconstruction of an early Anglo-Saxon copy of the Heptateuch. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book, with a five-year index to volumes 16-20 (previous indexes being in volumes 5, 10 and 15).

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. Settlement mobility and the 'Middle Saxon shift': rural settlements and settlement patterns in Anglo-Saxon England H. F. Hamerow
• 2. Adultery in early Anglo-Saxon society Theodore John Rivers
• 3. The Liudhard medalet Martin Werner
• 4. The Werden 'Heptateuch' B. C. Barker-Benfield
• 5. The uncarpentered world of Old English poetry Earl R. Anderson
• 6. The use of modal verbs in complex sentences: some developments in the Old English period Hiroshi Ogawa
• 7. Anonymous polyphony and The Wanderer's textuality Carol Braun Pasternack
• 8. The geographic list of Solomon and Saturn II Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
• 9. Latin learning at Winchester in the early eleventh century: the evidence of the Lambeth Psalter Patrick P. O'Neill
• 10. Poetic language and the Paris Psalter: the decay of the Old English tradition M. S. Griffith
• 11. A new Latin source for the Old English 'Three Utterances' exemplum Mary F. Wack and Charles D. Wright
• 12. Wulfstan's De Antichristo in a twelfth-century Worcester manuscript J. E. Cross
• 13. A pair of inscribed Anglo-Saxon hooked tags from the Rome (Forum) 1883 hoard James Graham Campbell, Elisabeth Okasha and Michael Metcalf
• 14. Bibliography for 1990 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, Mark Blackburn, Sarah Foot, Alexander Rumble and Simon Keynes
• Index to volumes 16-20.

Volume

v. 21 ISBN 9780521419048

Description

The vitality of Anglo-Saxon studies is reflected in the continuing acquisition of fresh knowledge and perspectives gained from the combination of disparate but complementary skills and disciplines. Evidence presented in this book reveals unsuspected aspects of the influence of Aldhelm's Latin poetry in early medieval Spain. The many non-runic inscriptions which have been discovered since 1980 are catalogued and analysed. Comprehensive analysis of a little-understood Latin source of the Old English medical treatise known as Bald's Leechbook throws light not only on the English text but also, surprisingly, on the transmissional history of the Latin source. The decoration of an important manuscript from the early tenth century, the Tanner Bede, is set in the context of tenth-century developments in manuscript illumination, and the analysis of the Regularis concordia from an architectural point of view permits fresh understanding of the layout of monastic churches in the later Anglo-Saxon period. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. Record of the fifth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Stony Brook, New York, 22-6 July 1991
• 2. The transmission of Aldhelm's writings in early medieval Spain Andrew Breeze
• 3. Cultural assimilation in the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies Craig R. Davis
• 4. A second supplement to Hand-List of Anglo-Saxon Non-Runic Inscriptions Elisabeth Okasha
• 5. Bald's Leechbook and the Physica Plinii J. N. Adams and Marilyn Deegan
• 6. The decoration of the Tanner Bede Richard Gameson
• 7. The architectural interest of the Regularis Concordia Mark Spurrell
• 8. King Edgar's reliquary of St Swithun John Crook
• 9. AElfric and Smaragdus Joyce Hill
• 10. Crying wolf: oral style and the Sermones Lupi A. P. McD. Orchard
• 11. Bibliography for 1991 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, Mark Blackburn, Sarah Foot, Alexander Rumble and Simon Keynes.

Volume

v. 22 ISBN 9780521443524

Description

That Alcuin addressed to the monks of Lindisfarne the question, 'What has Ingeld to do with Christ?', is a much repeated dogma in Old English studies; but in this book close examination of the letter in question shows that it was addressed not to Lindisfarne nor to a monastic community, but to a bishop in Mercia. That 'Ultan the scribe' was responsible for some of the most lavishly illuminated Anglo-Saxon manuscripts is shown to be another untenable dogma. Fresh perspectives from interdisciplinary study: the 'beasts-of-battle' typescenes which are characteristic of Old English poetry are studied in the wider context of other European literatures. The nasty Viking habit of murdering hostages by throwing bones at them (as happened to St AElfeah) is illuminated by a wide-ranging study of analogues in Scandinavian literatures. Characteristic features of Aldhelm's enigmata are elucidated by the study of Byzantine riddles, thereby revealing a link between England and the Greek orient. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. Early Latin loan-words in Old English Alfred Wollmann
• 2. Three men and a boat: Sutton Hoo and the East Saxon kingdom Michael Parker Pearson, Robert van de Noort and Alex Woolf
• 3. Aldhelm's Enigmata and Byzantine riddles Celica Milovanovic-Barham
• 4. The 'baptism of tears' in early Anglo-Saxon sources T. O'Loughlin and H. Conrad-O'Briain
• 5. An unreported early use of Bede's De natura rerum Vernon King
• 6. What has Ingeld to do with Lindisfarne? Donald A. Bulloughs
• 7. Ultan the scribe Lawrence Nees
• 8. A smith's hoard from Tattershall Thorpe, Lincolnshire David A. Hinton and Robert White
• 9. An Anglo-Saxon fragment of Alcuin's letters in the Newberry Library, Chicago David Ganz
• 10. Convention and originality in the Old English 'beasts of battle' typescene M. S. Griffith
• 11. Serious entertainments: an examination of a peculiar type of Viking atrocity Ian McDougall
• 12. Miracles in architectural settings: Christ Church, Canterbury and St Clement's, Sandwich in the Old English Vision of Leofric Milton McC. Gatch
• 13. A lost cartulary of St Albans Abbey Simon Keynes
• 14. Bibliography for 1992 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, Mark Blackburn, Sarah Foot, Alexander Rumble and Simon Keynes.

Volume

v. 23 ISBN 9780521472005

Description

One of the most important primary sources for our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England is the charters and manuscripts which survive from the period before 1066. In the present book, two complementary essays treat the charters of mid tenth-century English kings, bringing previously unknown documents to light, establishing the circumstances in which they were produced, and demonstrating that changes in practice in the royal chancery had far-reaching effect on all aspects of Anglo-Saxon script and book production. The question of the medieval representation of women is illuminated by a study of the difficulties which a well-known monastic author, AElfric, faced in characterizing an Old Testament heroine who used her body to achieve her ends, while a number of traditional assumptions about the property rights of divorced women in England are freshly challenged by close philological analysis of surviving law-codes. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. Record of the sixth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Wadham College, University of Oxford, 1-7 August 1993
• 2. A background to Augustine's mission to Anglo-Saxon England Rob Meens
• 3. The early Kentish 'divorce laws': a reconsideration of AEthelberht, chs. 79 and 80 Carole A. Hough
• 4. The pattern of Old English burh in early Lindsey Barrie Cox
• 5. The language of the 'Fonthill Letter' Mechthild Gretsch
• 6. The `Three Orders' of society in Anglo-Saxon England Timothy E. Powell
• 7. English Square minuscule script: the mid-century phases David N. Dumville
• 8. The 'Dunstan B' charters Simon Keynes
• 9. Dry-point glosses to Aldhelm's De laudibus virginitatis in Beinecke 401 Philip G. Rusche
• 10. AElfric's Judith: manipulative or manipulated? Mary Clayton
• 11. Old Latin interventions in the Old English Heptateuch Richard Marsden
• 12. More pre-Conquest manuscripts from Glastonbury Abbey James P. Carley
• 13. An eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon missal fragment Nicholas Orchard
• 14. Bibliography for 1993 Lesley J. Abrams, Carl T. Berkhout, Mark Blackburn, Sarah Foot, Alexander Rumble and Simon Keynes.

Volume

v. 24 ISBN 9780521558457

Description

Our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England depends wholly on the precise and detailed study of the texts that have come down to us from pre-Conquest times. The present book contains pioneering studies of some of these sources which have been neglected or misunderstood. A comprehensive study of a group of lavish gospelbooks written under the patronage of a late Anglo-Saxon countess, Judith of Flanders (sometime wife of the Earl Tostig who was killed at Stamford Bridge in 1066) shows the importance of these artefacts and provides fresh understanding of the transmission of the gospels in late eleventh-century England. Close analysis of the Libellus AEthelwoldi, a neglected Latin translation of a late tenth-century documentary record of the estates acquired by the redoubtable Bishop AEthelwold for Ely Abbey, throws significant light on the operations of the laws of land tenure in the late tenth century. These and other more traditional lines of enquiry are the focus of this book. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. An Anglo-Saxon mass for St Willibrord and its later liturgical uses Nicholas Orchard
• 2. Some difficulties in Beowulf, lines 874-902: Sigemund reconsidered M. S. Griffith
• 3. The Metrical Epilogue to the Alfredian Pastoral Care: a postscript from Junius Peter J. Lucas
• 4. Sociolinguistic aspects of Old English colour lexemes C. P. Biggam
• 5. The interchangeability of Old English verbal prefixes Michiko Ogura
• 6. The Regularis Concordia and its Old English gloss Lucia Kornexl
• 7. Law and litigation in the Libellus AEthelwoldi episcopi Alan Kennedy
• 8. A unique Old English formula for excommunication from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 303 E. M. Treharne
• 9. The Anglo-Saxons and the Christianization of Scandinavia Lesley Abrams
• 10. The Anglo-Saxon gospelbooks of Judith, countess of Flanders: their text, make-up and function Patrick McGurk and Jane Rosenthal
• 11. Bibliography for 1994 Lesley J. Abrams, Carl T. Berkhout, Mark Blackburn, Sarah Foot, Alexander Rumble and Simon Keynes.

Volume

v. 25 ISBN 9780521571470

Description

Material evidence brought to light in this book includes a niello disc from Limpsfield Grange (Surrey) and two fragments of a composite Old English homily discovered in Westminster Abbey. Many previously accepted scholarly positions are reassessed and challenged. A comprehensive assessment of the palaeography of the Exeter Book situates it in the context of late tenth-century book production, and shows that there are no grounds for thinking that the manuscript originated in Exeter itself and that its origin must as yet remain unknown. As always, the interpretation of Old English poetry figures largely in this book. One of the most intriguing of the Old English riddles is explained convincingly. The influence of Aldhelm's Latin poetry on Old English verse is also convincingly demonstrated. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book; and a full index of the contents of volumes 1-25 is provided, with a separate index to volumes 21-25. (Previous indexes have appeared in volumes 5, 10, 15 and 20.)

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. Record of the seventh conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Stanford University, 6-12 August 1995
• 2. The blood of Abel and the branches of sin: Genesis A, Maxims I and Aldhelm's Carmen de uirginitate Charles D. Wright
• 3. Regula canonicorum or Regula monasterialis uitae? The Rule of Chrodegang and Archbishop Wulfred's reforms at Canterbury Brigitte Langefeld
• 4. The originality of the Old English gloss of the Vespasian Psalter and its relation to the gloss of the Junius Psalter Phillip Pulsiano
• 5. The Limpsfield Grange disc Elizabeth Okasha and Susan Youngs
• 6. Traditions concerning Jamnes and Mambres in Anglo-Saxon England Frederick M. Biggs and Thomas N. Hall
• 7. The author of the Fonthill Letter Mark Boynton and Susan Reynolds
• 8. Palaces or minsters? Northampton and Cheddar reconsidered John Blair
• 9. The advent of poetry: Christ I Edward B. Irving Jr
• 10. The origin of the Exeter Book of Old English poetry Richard Gameson
• 11. Exeter Book Riddle 57 (55) - a double solution? Audrey L. Meaney
• 12. An Old English fragment from Westminster Abbey R. I. Page
• 13. The glosses on Bede's De temporum ratione attributed to Byrhtferth of Ramsey Michael Gorman
• 14. Bibliography for 1995 Lesley J. Abrams, Carl T. Berkhout, Mark Blackburn, Debby Banham, Alexander Rumble and Simon Keynes
• Index to volumes 21-25
• Index of contents, volumes 1-25.

Volume

v. 26 ISBN 9780521592529

Description

In the present volume, the two essays that frame the book provide exciting insight into the mental world of the Anglo-Saxons by showing on the one hand how they understood the processes of reading and assimilating knowledge and, on the other, how they conceived of time and the passage of the seasons. In the field of art history, two essays treat two of the best-known Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. The lavish symbol pages in the 'Book of Durrow' are shown to reflect a programmatic exposition of the meaning of Easter, and a posthumous essay by a distinguished art historian shows how the Anglo-Saxon illustrations added to the 'Galba Psalter' are best to be understood in the context of the programme of learning instituted by King Alfred. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. Roedan, areccan, smeagan: how the Anglo-Saxons read M. B. Parkes
• 2. The Book of Durrow and the question of programme Martin Werner
• 3. The liturgy of St Willibrord Yitzhak Hen
• 4. The case for a West Saxon minuscule Julia Crick
• 5. Power, skill and virtue in the Old English Boethius Nicole Guenther Discenza
• 6. The Galba Psalter: pictures, texts and context in an early medieval prayerbook Robert Deshman
• 7. On the date, provenance and relationship of the 'Solomon and Saturn' dialogues Patrick P. O'Neill
• 8. The origin and development of the Anglo-Saxon Pychomachia illustrations Gernot R. Wieland
• 9. Lost in translation: omission of episodes in some Old English prose saints' legends E. Gordon Whatley
• 10. 'Evil Tongues': a previously unedited Old English sermon David and Ian McDougall
• 11. The seasons of the year in Old English Earl R. Anderson
• 12. Bibliography for 1996 Carl T. Berkhout, Carole P. Biggam, Mark Blackburn, Debby Banham, Alexander Rumble and Simon Keynes.

Volume

v. 27 ISBN 9780521622431

Description

The discovery in Sonderhausen of a fragmentary psalter glossed in Latin and Old English allows fresh inferences to be drawn regarding the study of the psalter in Anglo-Saxon England, and of the transmission of the corpus of vernacular psalter glosses. A detailed textual and palaeographical study of the Wearmouth-Jarrow bibles leads to the exciting possibility that the hand of Bede can be identified, annotating the text of the Bible which he no doubt played an instrumental role in establishing. Two Latin texts from the circle of Archbishop Wulfstan are published here in full, whilst disciplined philological and historical analysis helps to clarify a puzzling reference in AEthelbert's law-code to the early medieval practice of providing food render for the king. Finally, the volume contains two pioneering essays in the histoire des mentalites. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. Record of the eighth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Universita di Palermo, 7-12 July 1997
• 2. Classical rhetoric in Anglo-Saxon England Gabriele Knappe
• 2. Cyninges fedesl: the king's feeding in AEthelberht, ch. 12 Lisi Oliver
• 3. The Minster-in-Thanet foundation story Stephanie Hollis
• 4. Manus Bedae: Bede's contribution to Ceolfrith's bibles Richard Marsden
• 5. The transmission and reception of Graeco-Roman mythology in Anglo-Saxon England, 670-800 Michael W. Herren
• 6. A neglected early-ninth-century manuscript of the Lindisfarne Vita S. Cuthberti Donald A. Bullough
• 7. The transmission of the 'Digby' corpus of bilingual glosses to Aldhelm's Prosa de virginitate Scott Gwara
• 8. Exeter Book Riddle 74 and the play of the text John D. Niles
• 9. Body and law in late Anglo-Saxon England Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
• 10. Two composite texts from Archbishop Wulfstan's 'commonplace book': the De ecclesiastica consuetudine and the Institutio beati Amalarii de ecclesiasticis officiis Christopher A. Jones
• 11. A newly-found fragment of an Anglo-Saxon psalter Helmut Gneuss
• 12. Two runic notes R. I. Page
• 13. Bibliography for 1997 Carl T. Berkhout, Carole P. Biggam, Mark Blackburn, Debby Banham, Alexander Rumble and Simon Keynes.

Volume

v. 28 ISBN 9780521652032

Description

This volume is framed by articles that throw interesting light on the achievement and reputation of the greatest of Anglo-Saxon kings - Alfred. It opens with a wide-ranging study of the literary and archaeological evidence for the novel design of Alfred's ships, design which in later times led to his being regarded as the father of the English navy. The book closes with a survey of the development of the Alfredian legend from the tenth to the twentieth century, with material drawn from a wide variety of different sources, including art and literature, much of which may be unfamiliar to students of Anglo-Saxon England. Between these two articles on King Alfred lies a variety of studies which illustrate Anglo-Saxon England's aim of encouraging the interdisciplinary study of surviving records. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. King Alfred's ships: text and context M. J. Swanton
• 2. What use are the Thorkelin transcripts of Beowulf? Johan Gerritsen
• 3. The iconography of the Utrecht Psalter and the Old English Descent into Hell Jessica Brantley
• 4. Anti-Judaism in AElfric's Lives of Saints Andrew P. Scheil
• 5. The earliest texts with English and French David W. Porter
• 6. Unfulfilled promise: the rubrics of the Old English prose Genesis Benjamin C. Withers
• 7. The West Saxon Gospels and the gospel-lectionary in Anglo-Saxon England: manuscript evidence and liturgical practice Ursula Lenker
• 8. The scribe of the Paris Psalter Richard Emms
• 9. The Office of the Trinity in the Crowland Psalter (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 296) Barbara C. Raw
• 10. Hereward and Flanders Elisabeth van Houts
• 11. The cult of King Alfred Simon Keynes
• Bibliography for 1998 Debby Banham, Carl T. Berkhout, Carole P. Biggam, Mark Blackburn and Simon Keynes.

Volume

v. 37 ISBN 9780521767361

Description

Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and which promotes the more unusual interests - in music or medicine or education, for example. Articles in volume 37 include: Record of the thirteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, 30 July to 4 August 2007; The virtues of rhetoric: Alcuin's Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus; King Edgar's charter for Pershore (972); Lost voices from Anglo-Saxon Lichfield; The Old English Promissio Regis; AElfric, the Vikings, and an anonymous preacher in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College (162); Re-evaluating base-metal artifacts: an inscribed lead strap-end from Crewkerne, Somerset; Anglo-Saxon and related entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004); Bibliography for 2007.

Table of Contents

• 1. Record of the thirteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, 30 July to 4 August 2007 Mary Swan
• 2. The virtues of rhetoric: Alcuin's Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus Matthew Kempshall
• 3. King Edgar's charter for Pershore (972) Peter Stokes
• 4. Lost voices from Anglo-Saxon Lichfield Gifford Charles-Edwards and Helen McKee
• 5. The Old English Promissio Regis Mary Clayton
• 6. AElfric, the Vikings, and an anonymous preacher in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College (162) Kathryn Powell
• 7. Re-evaluating base-metal artifacts: an inscribed lead strap-end from Crewkerne, Somerset Gabor Thomas, Naomi Payne and Elizabeth Okasha
• 8. Anglo-Saxon and related entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) Helen Foxhall Forbes, Mathhias Ammon, Elizabeth Boyle, Conan Doyle, Peter D. Evan, Rosa Maria Fera, Paul Gazzoli, Helen Imhoff, Anna Matheson, Sophie Rixon and Levi Roach
• 9. Bibliography for 2007 Paul G. Remley, Martha Bayless, Carole P. Biggam, Mark Blackburn, Felicity H. Clark, Fiona Edmonds, Carole Hough, Simon Keynes and Rebecca Rushforth.

Volume

v. 29 ISBN 9780521790710

Description

The editorial policy of Anglo-Saxon England has been to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. This approach is pursued in exemplary fashion by many of the essays in this volume. Fresh light is thrown on the dating and form of Cynewulf's poem The Fates of the Apostles through a comprehensive study of the historical martyrologies of the Carolingian period on which Cynewulf is presumed to have drawn. The literary form of AElfric's Preface to his translation of Genesis is illustrated through a wide-ranging study of the rhetorical genre of preface-writing in the early Middle Ages (the genre which subsequently was known as the ars dictaminis), and the problems which AElfric faced and solved in composing a Life of St AEthelthryth are illustrated through detailed comparison of the sources which he utilized. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. Record of the ninth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at the University of Notre Dame, 8-12 August, 1999
• 2. The archetype of Beowulf Michael Lapidge
• 3. Genesis A and the Anglo-Saxon 'migration myth' Paul Battles
• 4. Did Cynewulf use a martyrology? Reconsidering the sources of The Fates of the Apostles John M. McCulloh
• 5. The Junius Psalter gloss: its historical and cultural context Mechthild Gretsch
• 6. Anglicized word order in the Old English continuous interlinear glosses in London, British Library, Royal 2. A. XX Joseph Crowley
• 7. The 'robed Christ' in pre-Conquest sculptures of the Crucifixion Elizabeth Coatsworth
• 8. AEthelweard's Chronicon and Old English poetry Angelika Lutz
• 9. AElfric's Preface to Genesis: genre, rhetoric and the origins of the ars dictaminis Mark Griffith
• 10. AElfric and the purpose of Christian marriage: a reconsideration of the Life of AEthelthryth, lines 120-30 Peter Jackson
• 11. Cnut and Lotharingia: two notes Michael Hare
• 12. Francis Junius (1591-1677): copyist or editor? Kees Dekker
• 13. Bibliography for 1999 Debby Banham, Carl T. Berkhout, Carole P. Biggam, Mark Blackburn, Carole Hough, Simon Keynes and Teresa Webber.

Volume

v. 30 ISBN 9780521802109

Description

The pre-eminence of Anglo-Saxon England in its field can be seen as a result of its encouragement of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. Thus this volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface, in which it is shown that the unusually formulaic nature of Boniface's letters is best understood as a reflex of the saint's familiarity with vernacular composition. A wide-ranging historical contextualization of The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle illuminates the way English readers of the later tenth century may have defined themselves in contradistinction to the monstrous unknown, and a fresh reading of the gendering of female portraiture in a famous illustrated manuscript of the Psychomachia of Prudentius (CCCC 23) shows the independent ways in which Anglo-Saxon illustrators were able to respond to their models. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book; and a full index of the contents of volumes 26-30 is provided. (Previous indexes have appeared in volumes 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25.)

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. Place-name evidence for an Anglo-Saxon animal name: OE *pohha/*pocca 'fallow deer' Carole Hough
• 2. Old sources, new resources: finding the right formula for Boniface Andy Orchard
• 3. The illness of King Alfred the Great David Pratt
• 4. The social context of narrative disruption in The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle Brian McFadden
• 5. Broken bodies and singing tongues: gender and voice in the Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 23 Psychomachia Catherine E. Karkov
• 6. The prodigal fragment: Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College 734/782a Rebecca Rushforth
• 7. Contextualising the Knutsdrapur: skaldic praise-poetry at the court of Cnut Matthew Townend
• 8. Anglo-Saxon prognostics in context: a survey and handlist of manuscripts Roy Michael Liuzza
• 9. Junius's knowledge of the Old English poem Durham Daniel Paul O'Donnell
• 10. Bibliography for 2000 Debby Banham, Carl T. Berkhout, Carole P. Biggam, Mark Blackburn, Carole Hough, Teresa Webber and Simon Keynes
• Index to volumes 26-30.

Volume

v. 31 ISBN 9780521807722

Description

One of the most important manuscripts surviving from pre-Conquest England receives penetrating analysis by several scholars. The 'Junius Manuscript' is evaluated from a number of intersecting perspectives, including codicology, decoration, script and punctuation; the confluence of these permits a fresh and convincing dating of this crucially important witness to Old English poetry. This demonstration is strikingly corroborated by an independent analysis of the textual transmission of one of the poems contained in the manuscript - Daniel - which is analysed in connection with another poetic version of the same biblical text, here entitled Three Youths, preserved in the 'Exeter Book'. AElfric's conception of the creation and fall of the angels is also studied, and this takes us back to a poem in the 'Junius Manuscript', that known as Genesis A. It is shown that AElfric's conception of the angels, which has no antecedent in the Bible itself, could possibly have been framed by his reading of Genesis A. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications is provided.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. Record of the tenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at the University of Helsinki, 6-11 August 2001
• 2. The landscape of Beowulf Margaret Gelling
• 3. Sceaf, Japheth and the origins of the Anglo-Saxons Daniel Anlezark
• 4. The Anglo-Saxons and the Goths: rewriting the sack of Rome M. R. Godden
• 5. The Old English Bede and the construction of Anglo-Saxon authority Nicole Guenther Discenza
• 6. Daniel, the Three Youths fragment and the transmission of Old English verse Paul G. Remley
• 7. An integrated re-examination of the dating of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 11 Leslie Lockett
• 8. AElfric on the creation and fall of the angels Michael Fox
• 9. The colophon of the Eadwig Gospels Richard Gameson
• 10. Public penance in Anglo-Saxon England Brad Bedingfield
• 11. The Bayeux 'Tapestry': invisible seams and visible boundaries Gale R. Owen-Crocker
• 12. Bibliography for 2001 Debby Banham, Carole P. Biggam, Mark Blackburn, Carole Hough, Simon Keynes, Paul G. Remley and Teresa Webber.

Volume

v. 32 ISBN 9780521813440

Description

Throughout the centuries of its existence, Anglo-Saxon society was highly, if not widely, literate: it was a society the functioning of which depended very largely on the written word. All the essays in this volume throw light on the literacy of Anglo-Saxon England, from the writs which were used as the instruments of government from the eleventh century onwards, to the normative texts which regulated the lives of Benedictine monks and nuns, to the runes stamped on an Anglo-Saxon coin, to the pseudorunes which deliver the coded message of a man to his lover in a well-known Old English poem, to the mysterious writing on an amulet which was apparently worn by a religious for a personal protection from the devil. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. On argumentation in Old English philology, with particular reference to the editing and dating of Beowulf R. D. Fulk
• 2. Knowledge of the writings of John Cassian in early Anglo-Saxon England Stephen Lake
• 3. The earliest manuscript of Bede's metrical Vita S. Cudbercti Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge
• 4. Beowulf and some fictions of the Geatish succession Frederick M. Biggs
• 5. An Anglo-Saxon runic coin and its adventures in Sweden Margaret Clunies Ross
• 6. The sources of the Old English Martyrology Christine Rauer
• 7. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 57: a witness to the early stages of the Benedictine reform in England? Mechthild Gretsch
• 8. The Old English Benedictine Rule: Writing for women and men Rohini Jayatilaka
• 9. The trick of the runes in The Husband's Message John D. Niles
• 10. A late Saxon inscribed pendant from Norfolk Elisabeth Okasha and Susan Youngs
• 11. Illustrations of damnation in late Anglo-Saxon manuscripts Sarah Semple
• 12. The use of writs in the eleventh century Richard Sharpe
• 13. Addenda and corrigenda to the Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts Helmut Gneuss
• 14. Bibliography for 2002 Debby Banham, Carole P. Biggam, Mark Blackburn, Carole Hough, Simon Keynes, Paul G. Remley and Rebecca Rushforth.

Volume

v. 33 ISBN 9780521849050

Description

It is red-letter day in Anglo-Saxon studies when a previously unknown Old English text comes to light. In 2002, as the result of some outstanding scholarly detective work, a fragmentary homiliary, containing exegetical homilies for the Sundays after Pentecost, came to light in the Somerset County Records Office in Taunton. The manuscript apparently dates from the middle years of the eleventh century; but questions of when and where and by whom the homiliary was composed can only be answered by close philological study of the Old English text itself. The present volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains a printed edition of this interesting text, and detailed philological analysis leads to the extraordinary hypothesis that the text may have been composed by someone whose native language was not English, and who was apparently unfamiliar with the mainstream of English homiletic composition, best illustrated in the work of AElfric. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. St Aldhelm's bees (De uirginitate prosa, cc. iv-vi): some observations on a literary tradition Augustine Casiday
• 2. Poetic words, conservatism and the dating of Old English poetry Dennis Cronan
• 3. The several compilers of Bald's Leechbook Richard Scott Nokes
• 4. AElfric and late Old English verse Thomas A. Bredehoft
• 5. Abbot Leofsige of Mettlach: an English monk in Flanders and Upper Lotharingia in the late tenth century Michael Hare
• 6. The Taunton Fragment: a new text from Anglo-Saxon England Mechthild Gretsch
• 7. Pre-Conquest manuscripts from Malmesbury Abbey and John Leland's letter to Beatus Rhenanus concerning a lost copy of Tertullian's works James P. Carley and Pierre Petitmengin
• 8. A third supplement to Hand-List of Anglo-Saxon Non-Runic Inscriptions Elisabeth Okasha
• 9. Bibliography for 2003 Debby Banham, Carole P. Biggam, Mark Blackburn, Carole Hough, Simon Keynes, Paul G. Remley and Rebecca Rushforth.

Volume

v. 34 ISBN 9780521849067

Description

Ideas about the whole sweep of Anglo-Saxon history and in particular the importance of combining skills from many disciplines are at the centre of this volume. Walter Goffart invites us to think again about what Bede meant by 'the true law of history', while Joanna Story argues that the early Frankish annals give us important insight into the raw material available to Bede. J. R. Madicott traces the rapid development of Mercian power in Bede's time, and a team of textual scholars and scientists report on their experiments to test the efficacy of Anglo-Saxon medical prescriptions. At the other end of the period, Gale R. Owen-Crocker shows how the birds in the margins of the Bayeux Tapestry are used to comment on the narrative of the Norman Conquest, while Rebecca Rushforth finds evidence for continued post-Conquest interest in the descendents of the royal house of Wessex. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. Record of the eleventh conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Arizona State University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 4-9 August 2003
• 2. London and Droitwich, c. 650-750: trade, industry and the rise of Mercia J. R. Maddicott
• 3. The Frankish Annals of Lindisfarne and Kent Joanna Story
• 4. Bede's uera lex historiae explained Walter Goffart
• 5. Orientalist fantasy in the poetic dialogues of Solomon and Saturn Kathryn Powell
• 6. Verses quite like cwen to gebeddan in The Metres of Boethius M. S. Griffith
• 7. Fragments of Boethius: the reconstruction of the Cotton manuscript of the Alfredian text Susan Irvine
• 8. A reassessment of the efficacy of Anglo-Saxon medicine Barbara Brennessel, Michael D. C. Drout and Robyn Gravel
• 9. Virgin spouses as model Christians: the legend of Julian and Basilissa in AElfric's Lives of Saints Robert K. Upchurch
• 10. Frithegod of Canterbury's Maundy Thursday hymn Rosalind C. Love
• 11. Squawk talk: commentary by the birds in the Bayeux Tapestry? Gale R. Owen-Crocker
• 12. The Bury Psalter and the descendants of Edward the Exile Rebecca Rushforth
• 13. Bibliography for 2004 Paul G. Remley, Carole P. Biggam, Debby Banham, Mark Blackburn, Carole Hough, Simon Keynes and Rebecca Rushforth.

Volume

v. 35 ISBN 9780521883429

Description

Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and which promotes the more unusual interests - in music or medicine or education, for example. Articles in volume 35 include: Record of the twelfth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists at Bavarian-American Centre, University of Munich, 1-6 August 2005; Virgil the Grammarian and Bede: a preliminary study; Knowledge of whelk dyes and pigments in Anglo-Saxon England; The representation of the mind as an enclosure in Old English poetry; The origin of the numbered sections in Beowulf and in other Old English poems; An ethnic dating of Beowulf; Hrothgar's horses: feral or thoroughbred?; AEthelthryth of Ely in a lost calendar from Munich; Alfred's epistemological metaphors: eagan modes and scip modes; Bibliography for 2005.

Table of Contents

• Record of the twelfth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists at Bavarian-American Centre, University of Munich, 1-6 August 2005 Elaine Treharne
• Virgil the Grammarian and Bede: a preliminary study Damian Bracken
• Knowledge of whelk dyes and pigments in Anglo-Saxon England C. P. Biggam
• The representation of the mind as an enclosure in Old English poetry Britt Mize
• The origin of the numbered sections in Beowulf and in other Old English Poems R. D. Fulk
• An ethnic dating of Beowulf Craig R. Davis
• Hrothgar's horses: feral or thoroughbred? Jennifer Neville
• AEthelthryth of Ely in a lost calendar from Munich Mechthild Gretsch
• Alfred's epistemological metaphors: eagan modes and scip modes Miranda Wilcox
• Canterbury and Flanders in the late tenth century Steven Vanderputten
• A Welsh record of an Anglo-Saxon political mutilation Elizabeth Boyle
• Goscelin and the consecration of Eve Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
• An unfinished mappa mundi from late eleventh-century Worcester Martin K. Foys
• Bibliography for 2005.

Volume

v. 36 ISBN 9780521883436

Description

Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and which promotes the more unusual interests - in music or medicine or education, for example. Articles in volume 36 include: The tabernacula of Gregory the Great and the conversion of Anglo-Saxon England by Flora Spiegel; The career of Aldhelm by Michael Lapidge; The name 'Merovingian' and the dating of Beowulf by Walter Goffart; An abbot, an archbishop and the Viking raids of 1006-7 and 1009-12 by Simon Keynes; and Demonstrative behaviour and political communication in later Anglo-Saxon England by Julia Barrow.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• 1. The tabernacula of Gregory the Great and the conversion of Anglo-Saxon England Flora Spiegel
• 2. The career of Aldhelm Michael Lapidge
• 3. Aldhelm's rejection of the muses and the mechanics of poetic inspiration in early Anglo-Saxon England Emily Thornbury
• 4. The name 'Merovingian' and the dating of Beowulf Walter Goffart
• 5. Poisoned places: the Avernian tradition in Old English poetry Daniel Anlezark
• 6. Demonstrative behaviour and political communication in later Anglo-Saxon England Julia Barrow
• 7. An abbot, an archbishop and the Viking raids of 1006-7 and 1009-12 Simon Keynes
• 8. Evidence of recluses in eleventh-century England Tom Licence.

Volume

v. 39 ISBN 9780521895101

Description

Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and which promotes the more unusual interests - in music or medicine or education, for example. Articles in volume 39 include: 'Why is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle about kings?' by Nicholas Brooks, 'The Old English Life of St Neot and the legends of King Alfred' by Malcolm Godden, 'The Edgar poems and the poetics of failure in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle' by Scott Thompson Smith and an article focusing on the new discovery of an eighteenth Agnus Dei penny of King AEthelred the Unready by Simon Keynes and Mark Blackburn. A comprehensive bibliography concludes the volume, listing publications on Anglo-Saxon England during 2009.

Table of Contents

• 1. Record of the fourteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists at Memorial University, St John's, Newfoundland, 26 31 July 2009 Mary Swan
• 2. Aldhelm and Old St Peter's, Rome Joanna Story
• 3. The maritime imagination and the paradoxical mind in Old English poetry Antonina Harbus
• 4. Why is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle about kings? Nicholas Brooks
• 5. Royal wisdom and the Alfredian context of Cynewulf and Cyneheard Francis Leneghan
• 6. The Edgar poems and the poetics of failure in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Scott Thompson Smith
• 7. The star-like soul in the metra of the Old English Boethius Karmen Lenz
• 8. The Homiliary of Angers in tenth-century England Winfried Rudolf
• 9. The Old English Life of St Neot and the legends of King Alfred Malcolm Godden
• 10. An eighteenth Agnus Dei penny of King AEthelred the Unready Simon Keynes and Mark Blackburn
• Bibliography for 2009 Paul G. Remley, Martha Bayless, Carole P. Biggam, Mark Blackburn, Felicity H. Clark, Fiona Edmonds, Carole Hough, Simon Keynes and Rebecca Rushforth.

Volume

v. 40 ISBN 9781107019300

Description

The fortieth volume of Anglo-Saxon England reflects the vitality of work in this field across the usual wide range of disciplines. Poetry and prose in Old English and in Latin are well represented, complemented here by studies of Anglo-Saxon legislation and coinage, in their respective historical contexts. Also included is a second series of addenda and corrigenda to Helmut Gneuss's indispensable handlist of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Each article is preceded by a short abstract. The volume concludes with the annual bibliography of publications for the year 2010, in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies.

Table of Contents

• 1. Adomnan, plague and the Easter controversy David Woods
• 2. Personal names in the composition and transmission of Bede's prose Vita S. Cuthberti Francesca Tinti
• 3. Id est, crux Christi: tracing the Old English motif of the Celestial Rood Brandon W. Hawk
• 4. A more permanent homeland: land tenure in Guthlac A Stephanie Clark
• 5. Creating the cloud-tent-ship conceit in Exodus Miranda Wilcox
• 6. An Old English formulaic system and its contexts in Cynewulf's poetry Charles D. Wright
• 7. The Agnus Dei pennies of King AEthelred the Unready Simon Keynes and Rory Naismith
• 8. The Anglo-Latin elegy of Herbert and Wulfgar David W. Porter
• 9. The Ordinance concerning the Dunsaete and the Anglo-Welsh frontier in the late tenth and eleventh centuries George Molyneaux
• 10. Ant-lore in Anglo-Saxon England Marilina Cesario
• 11. Second addenda and corrigenda to the Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts Helmut Gneuss
• 12. Bibliography for 2010 Paul G. Remley, Carole P. Biggam, Felicity H. Clark, Fiona Edmonds, Carole Hough, Simon Keynes and Rory Naismith.

Volume

v. 41 ISBN 9781107046931

Description

The contents of the forty-first volume of Anglo-Saxon England range across the period from the seventh century to the eleventh, and across the disciplines from Old English and Insular Latin literature to monetary history, ecclesiastical history, manuscript studies, sculpture, and cookery. Collectively, the articles represent the vitality of Anglo-Saxon studies not only in Britain but also in Ireland, France, Germany and the United States of America. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.

Table of Contents

• Contents
• List of illustrations
• 1. Record of the fifteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, Wisconsin), 1-5 August 2011 Julia Crick
• 2. Disputed episcopacy: Bede, Acca, and the relationship between Stephen's Life of St Wilfrid and the early prose Lives of St Cuthbert Clare Stancliffe
• 3. St Boniface as historian: a continental perspective on the organization of the early Anglo-Saxon church Roy Flechner
• 4. The register of divine speech in Genesis A Mark Griffith
• 5. A context for the sexualization of monsters in The Wonders of the East Christopher Monk
• 6. Domiciling the evangelists in Anglo-Saxon England: a fresh reading of Aldred's Colophon in the 'Lindisfarne Gospels' Francis l. Newton, Francis l. Newton, Jr, and Christopher R. J. Scheirer
• 7. The voice of the king in 'King Edgar's Establishment of Monasteries' David Pratt
• 8. Historiography and literary patronage in late Anglo-Saxon England: the evidence of AEthelweard's Chronicon Mechthild Gretsch.

Volume

42 ISBN 9781107064102

Description

The forty-second volume of Anglo-Saxon England begins with an article which introduces a 'new' Anglo-Latin poet to a modern audience, and ends with an article exploring the activities of a Norman archbishop of Canterbury when exiled from England in the early 1050s. Other disciplines well represented here are palaeography, philology, Old English language and literature, tenth-century diplomacy, and numismatics. Extended treatment is given to the reception in Anglo-Saxon England of a Latin life of St AEgidius, which lies behind the Old English Life of St Giles in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 303. It is also a privilege for the journal to include the first scholarly publication of the recently discovered seal-matrix of a certain AElfric, presumed to have been a layman who flourished in the late tenth century; the object itself has been acquired by the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.

Table of Contents

• 1. The earliest Anglo-Latin poet: Lutting of Lindisfarne Michael Lapidge
• 2. An Insular fragment of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica Nicholas A. Sparks
• 3. The name of the Hwicce: a discussion Richard Coates
• 4. The reception of the Latin Life of St Giles in Anglo-Saxon England Carmela Vircillo Franklin
• 5. The mind, perception, and the reflexivity of forgetting in Alfred's Pastoral Care Benjamin A. Saltzman
• 6. On saying yes in early Anglo-Saxon England Wim van der Wurff and Phillip Wallage
• 7. 'AEthelstan A' and the rhetoric of rule D. A. Woodman
• 8. Scribal errors of proper names in the Beowulf manuscript Leonard Neidorf
• 9. Discretio spirituum and The Whale Jeremy DeAngelo
• 10. A new late Anglo-Saxon seal matrix Jane Kershaw and Rory Naismith
• 11. The Agnus Dei penny of King AEthelred II: a call to hope in the Lord (Isaiah XL)? David Woods
• 12. Robert of Jumieges, archbishop in exile (1052-5) Tom Licence.

Volume

43 ISBN 9781107099678

Description

The forty-third volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains three contributions on Latin learning in the early part of the period, two focusing on texts being studied at Canterbury, and a third discussing the recording of Cuthbert's cult at Lindisfarne. Old English poetry is well represented by three contributions which exemplify new approaches towards poetic diction and its sources, and reinterpret Cynewulf's use of runes. Old English prose meanwhile receives further attention through a reassessment of its intended audience, and in an analysis of Andreas. There is also a discussion of an unusual prayer first attested in the Leofric Missal. The theme of kingship is addressed in an article on different representations of King Cnut in Old English, Latin and Old Norse texts, and in an extended review of demonstrably or arguably 'royal' books in the Anglo-Saxon period. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.

Table of Contents

• 1. Record of the sixteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Dublin, 29 July-2 August 2013 Susan Irvine
• 2. Isidore's Etymologiae at the school of Canterbury David Porter
• 3. Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, CLM 6298: a new witness of the biblical commentaries from the Canterbury school Evina Steinova
• 4. Rewriting the ecclesiastical landscape of early medieval Northumbria in the Lives of Cuthbert Joey McMullen
• 5. Old English poetic diction not in Old English verse or prose and the curious case of Aldhelm's five athletes Mark Griffiths
• 6. Reading, writing, and resurrection: Cynewulf's runes as a figure of the body Jill Clements
• 7. Constructing the monstrous body in Beowulf Megan Cavell
• 8. The sevenfold-fivefold-threefold litany of the saints in the Leofric Missal and beyond Robin Norris
• 9. The audience for Old English texts: AElfric, rhetoric and the 'edification of the simple' Helen Gittos
• 10. National-ethnic narratives in eleventh-century literary representations of Cnut Jacob Hobson
• 11. Kings and books in Anglo-Saxon England David Pratt.

Volume

44 ISBN 9781107147171

Description

The forty-fourth volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains three contributions on religious culture in eighth-century Northumbria, one discussing the conception of church buildings, one linking Bede and John of Beverley, and a comparison of Miracula Nynie episcopi and Arator. A discussion of the historical context of the battle of the Winwoed is complemented by a reconsideration of a literary work which influenced modern perceptions of King Edward the Confessor. Old English prose is represented by an analysis of the preface of Bede's Ecclesiastical History, and an examination of AElfric's treatment of the apostles. Old English poetry is covered by a contribution making the case for a new approach to the texts, and one addressing the riddles in the Exeter Book. This volume also covers military organization throughout the period, the practice of penance in the late eleventh century, and the discovery of an Anglo-Saxon hoard near Buckingham in 2014.

Table of Contents

• 1. The road to Winwoed? Penda's wars against Oswiu of Bernicia, c.642 to c.655 Philip Dunshea
• 2. Domino in domino dominorum: Bede and John of Beverley Frederick Biggs
• 3. The Preface to the Old English Bede: authorship, transmission and connection with the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List Greg Waite
• 4. Old English poetry, verse by verse Eric Weiskott
• 5. The Exeter Book Riddles: authorship and transmission Peter Orton
• 6. Dynamic intertextuality in the Miracula Nynie episcopi: remembering Arator's Historia apostolica Richard Hillier
• 7. AElfric's apostles Hugh Magennis
• 8. The cleansing of the temple in early medieval Northumbria Conor O'Brien
• 9. Explaining Anglo-Saxon military efficiency: the landscape of mobilization John Baker and Stuart Brookes
• 10. The date and authorship of the Vita AEdwardi regis Tom Licence
• 11. A hoard from the reign of Cnut from Buckinghamshire: a preliminary report Gareth Williams
• 12. A new Agnus Dei / Last Small Cross mule Simon Keynes and Rory Naismith
• 13. Affective piety and the practice of penance in late eleventh-century Worcester: the address to the penitent in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 121 Helen Foxhall Forbes.

Volume

45 ISBN 9781108419253

Description

The forty-fifth volume of Anglo-Saxon England focusses on various aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history from the seventh to the seventeenth century. In the field of Old English literature, contributions examine a ninth-century homily fragment, The Dream of the Rood, The Seafarer, and the Old English translation of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae. A contribution which explores references to the senses in a wide range of vernacular texts is complemented by another which reconsiders the iconography of the Fuller Brooch. The network of fortifications recorded in the Burghal Hidage is re-interpreted here as a product of political developments in the later 870s; and a new edition of the 'Ely memoranda' reminds us that the religious houses of the tenth and eleventh centuries functioned also as major agricultural estates. Finally, the contribution of seventeenth-century antiquaries to the development of Anglo-Saxon studies is remembered in a study of an early Anglo-Saxon Grammar.

Table of Contents

• Record of the seventeenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at the University of Glasgow, 3-7 August 2015 Martin Foys and Susan Irvine
• 1. The Trumpington Cross in context Sam Lucy
• 2. A ninth-century Old English homily from Northumbria Donald Scragg
• 3. The composite authorship of The Dream of the Rood Leonard Neidorf
• 4. Re-dating Alcuin's De dialectica: or, did Alcuin teach at Lorsch? Eva M. E. Radler-Bohn
• 5. Hands and eyes, sight and touch: appraising the senses in Anglo-Saxon England Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
• 6. The Burghal Hidage and the West Saxon burhs: a reappraisal Jeremy Haslam
• 7. The Fuller Brooch and Anglo-Saxon depictions of dance Martha Bayless
• 8. Hybrid forms: translating Boethius in Anglo-Saxon England Erica Weaver
• 9. The Seafarer, Grammatica, and the making of Anglo-Saxon textual culture Audrey Walton
• 10. Liturgy or private devotion? Reappraising Warsaw, Biblioteka Narodowa, I. 3311 Gerald P. Dyson
• 11. Landscapes of devotion: the settings of St Swithun's early Vitae Jennifer A. Lorden
• 12. Aristocratic deer hunting in late Anglo-Saxon England: a reconsideration, based upon the Vita S. Dvnstani Tim Flight
• 13. The Ely memoranda and the economy of the late Anglo-Saxon fenland Rory Naismith
• 14. The earliest modern Anglo-Saxon grammar: Sir Henry Spelman, Abraham Wheelock and William Retchford Peter J. Lucas.

Volume

46 ISBN 9781108499354

Description

Contributions to the forty-sixth volume of Anglo-Saxon England focus on aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history across a period from the seventh to the eleventh century. The study of a fragment of a tenth-century sacramentary offers new evidence for the role of music in Anglo-Saxon England, while consideration of charter-evidence in both Latin and Old English from Worcester c.870 to 992 sheds fresh light on institutional interaction between the two main languages of Anglo-Saxon England. Two contributions consider Beowulf and its immediate manuscript-context, the first focusing on the spellings of the second scribe, and the next on the later history of the manuscript into the sixteenth century, facilitating its survival to this day. Finally, a detailed study of English landed society before and after the Norman Conquest has resulted in new perspectives on landed wealth in England in 1066 and 1086. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• List of abbreviations
• 1. Illuminations of the Tabernacle of Moses and of Ezra in the Codex Amiatinus (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Amiatino 1): Bede, Cassiodorus and the Antiquitates Judaicae of Flavius Josephus Steven H. Wander
• 2. Bede's rhetorical use of dating formulas in the Historia ecclesiastica Richard Shaw
• 3. Transcribing the second scribe of Beowulf amid obscurity: for and for J. R. Hall
• 4. The reformed Nowell Codex and the Beowulf manuscript Kevin Kiernan
• 5. Ambyrne wind, amberlice and byre in the DOE Online Michael Korhammer
• 6. Reading Asser in early medieval Wales: the evidence of Armes Prydein Vawr Rebecca Thomas and David Callander
• 7. The making of the Second English Coronation Ordo David Pratt
• 8. A fragment of a tenth-century English sacramentary K. D. Hartzell
• 9. Latin, Old English and documentary practice at Worcester from Waerferth to Oswald Robert Gallagher and Francesca Tinti
• 10. Wulfstan's noble pagans Ben Reinhard
• 11. Domesday Book and the transformation of English landed society, 1066-86 Stephen Baxter.

Volume

47 ISBN 9781108830041

Description

The forty-seventh volume of Anglo-Saxon England begins with a record of the eighteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, and ends with a fourth supplement to the Hand-list of Anglo-Saxon Non-Runic Inscriptions. Other articles in this volume cover a diverse range of subjects, including Skaldic art in Cnut's court, alliteration in Old English poetry, the northern world of an Anglo-Saxon mappa mundi and the Germanic context of Beowulf. Religious matters are given particular consideration in this volume: new light is shed on the lost St Margaret's crux nigra, and on Anglo-Breton contact between the tenth and twelfth centuries through an examination of St Kenelm and St Melor. Also included are an account of Archbishop Wulfstan's forgery of the 'laws of Edward and Guthrum', and an edition of the four sermons attributed to Candidus Witto. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• List of abbreviations
• 1. Record of the eighteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 31 July-4 August 2017
• 2. An edition of the four sermons attributed to Candidus Witto Christopher A. Jones
• 3. Extra alliteration on stressed syllables in Old English poetry: types, uses and evolution Mark Griffith
• 4. Sworn swords: the Germanic context of Beowulf 2064, adsweord Benjamin D. Weber
• 5. A taste for knottiness: skaldic art at Cnut's court Roberta Frank
• 6. Wulfstan the Forger: the 'Laws of Edward and Guthrum' Nicholas P. Schwartz
• 7. St Kenelm, St Melor and Anglo-Breton contact from the tenth to the twelfth centuries Caroline Brett
• 8. The northern world of the Anglo-Saxon mappa mundi Helen Appleton
• 9. The 'old books of Glastonbury' and the Muchelney breviary fragment: London, British Library, Additional 56488, fols. i, 1-5 Jesse D. Billett
• 10. 'In me porto crucem': a new light on the lost St Margaret's crux nigra Francesco Marzella
• 11. A fourth supplement to Hand-List of Anglo-Saxon Non-Runic Inscriptions 365 Elisabeth Okasha.

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• Title Language Code: eng
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• Place of Publication: Cambridge
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• Size: 24 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Art, Anglo-Saxon -- England
  • LCSH : England -- Antiquities