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 34 include: London and Droitwich, c. 650-750: trade, industry and the rise of Mercia; The Frankish Annals of Lindisfarne and Kent; Bede's uera lex historiae explained; Orientalist fantasy in the poetic dialogues of Solomon and Saturn; Verses quite like cwen to gebeddan in The Metres of Boethius; Fragments of Boethius: the reconstruction of the Cotton manuscript of the Alfredian text; A reassessment of the efficacy of Anglo-Saxon medicine; Virgin spouses as model Christians: the legend of Julian and Basilissa in Ælfric's Lives of Saints; Frithegod of Canterbury's Maundy Thursday hymn; Bibliography for 2004.
Synopsis
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 34 include: London and Droitwich, c. 650-750: trade, industry and the rise of Mercia; The Frankish Annals of Lindisfarne and Kent; Bede's uera lex historiae explained; Orientalist fantasy in the poetic dialogues of Solomon and Saturn; Bibliography for 2004.
Synopsis
Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture.
Table of Contents
London and Droitwich, c. 650-750: trade, industry and the rise of Mercia J. R. Maddicott; The Frankish Annals of Lindisfarne and Kent Joanna Story; Bede's uera lex historiae explained Walter Goffart; Orientalist fanatsy in the poetic dialogues of Solomon and Saturn Kathryn Powell; Verses quite like cwen to gebeddan in The Metres of Boethius M. S. Griffith; Fragments of Boethius: the reconstruction of the Cotton manuscript of the Alfredian text Susan Irvine; A reassessment of the efficacy of Anglo-Saxon medicine Barbara Brennessel, Michael D. C. Drout and Robyn Gravel; Virgin spouses as model Christians: the legend of Julian and Basilissa in Ælfric's Lives of Saints Robert K. Upchurch; Frithegod of Canterbury's Maundy Thursday hymn Rosalind C. Love; Squwalk talk: commentary by the birds in the Bayeux Tapestry? Gale R. Owen-Crocker; The Bury Psalter and the descendants of Edward the Exile Rebecca Rushforth; Bibliography for 2004.