Synopses & Reviews
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 33 include: Aldhelm's bees (De uirginitate prosa, cc. iv-vi): some observations on a literary tradition; Poetic words, conservatism and the dating of Old English poetry; The several compilers of Bald's Leechbook; Aelfric and late Old English verse; Abbot Leofsige of Mettlach: an English monk in Flanders and Upper Lotharingia in the late tenth century; The Taunton Fragment: a new text from Anglo-Saxon England; Pre-Conquest Manuscripts from Malmesbury and John Leland's letter to Beatus Rhenanus concerning a lost copy of Tertullian's works; A third supplement to Hand-List of Anglo-Saxon Non-Runic Inscriptions; Bibliography for 2003.
Synopsis
Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Articles in volume 33 include: Aldhelm's bees (De uirginitate prosa, cc. iv-vi): some observations on a literary tradition ; Poetic words, conservatism and the dating of Old English poetry; The several compilers of Bald's Leechbook; The Taunton Fragment: a new text from Anglo-Saxon England; Pre-Conquest Manuscripts from Malmesbury and John Leland's letter to Beatus Rhenanus concerning a lost copy of Tertullian's works; A third supplement to Hand-List of Anglo-Saxon Non-Runic Inscriptions; Bibliography for 2003.
Synopsis
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 lfric. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.
Table of Contents
Aldhelm's bees (De uirginitate prosa, cc. iv-vi): some observations on a literary tradition Augustine Casidy; Poetic words, conservatism and the dating of Old English poetry Dennis Cronan; The several compilers of Bald's Leechbook Richard Nokes; Aelfric and late Old English verse Thomas A. Bredehoft; Abbot Leofsige of Mettlach: an English monk in Flanders and Upper Lotharingia in the late tenth century Michael Hare; The Taunton Fragment: a new text from Anglo-Saxon England Mechthild Gretsch; Pre-Conquest Manuscripts from Malmesbury and John Leland's letter to Beatus Rhenanus concerning a lost copy of Tertullian's works James P. Carley and Pierre Petitmengin; A third supplement to Hand-List of Anglo-Saxon Non-Runic Inscriptions Elisabeth Okasha; Bibliography for 2003.