Britons and Anglo-Saxons in the early Middle Ages
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Britons and Anglo-Saxons in the early Middle Ages
（Collected studies series, CS379）
Variorum, c1993
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"This volume contains xiv + 323 pages"--P. vii
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Description
The principle issue with which these essays are concerned is the nature of relations between the English and the British in the period from the collapse of Roman authority in Britain to the end of the first Viking-Age. As in the previous collection "Histories and Pseudo-Histories of the Insular Middle Ages", Dr Dumville emphasizes the central importance of close study of manuscripts and texts as the key to understanding the early history of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and the 9th- to the 13th-century perceptions of these. Among the studies, several deal with the historical evaluation of Beowulf and other works of Old English and Welsh literature; others illustrate the need to include the Britons across the Channel, in Brittany, in any full consideration of Insular culture.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The end of Celtic Britain: Gildas and Maelgwn - problems of dating
- the chronology of "De Excidio Britanniae", Book 1
- the origins of Northumbria - some aspects of the British background. Part 2 Heroic poetry and the historian: early Welsh poetry - problems of historicity
- palaeographical considerations in the dating of early Welsh verse
- "Beowulf" and the Celtic world - the uses of evidence
- Beowulf come lately - some notes on the palaeography of the Nowell Codex. Part 3 Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List and the chronology of early Wessex
- Essex, Middle Anglia, and the expansion of mercia in the south-east Midlands
- textual archaeology and Northumbrian history subsequent to Bede. Part 4 Brittany and its neighbours: on the dating of the early Breton lawcodes
- Ekiurid's "Celtica lingua" - an ethnological difficulty in "Waltharius". Part 5 Scribes and books - Anglo-British interaction: late 7th- or 8th-century evidence for the British transmission of Pelagius
- te English element in 10th-century book production. Part 6 Britons and English in the Viking-Age: the "six" sons of Rhodri Mawr - a problem in Asser's "Life of King Alfred"
- Brittany and "Armes Prydein Vawr".
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