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Cambridge Studies In Anglo-Saxon England Paperback Set

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 A set of scholarly texts and monographs intended to advance our knowledge of all aspects of the field of Anglo-Saxon studies.
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The United States And Biological Warfare - Secrets From The Early Cold War And Korea

by Edward Hagerman e Stephen Endicott

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 Argues that the United States experimented with and deployed biological weapons during the Korean War. This title explores the political and moral dimensions of this issue, asking what restraints were applied or forgotten in those years of ideological and political passion and military crisis.
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Aelfric And The Cult Of Saints In Late Anglo-Saxon England

by Mechthild (Georg-August-Universitat, Gottingen, Germany) Gretsch

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 The cult of saints was one of the most important aspects of life in the Middle Ages, and it often formed the nucleus of developing group identities in a town, a province or a country. This book examines five of Ã†lfric's saints' Lives in their contemporary political and intellectual setting.
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Text And Picture In Anglo-Saxon England - Narrative Strategies In The Junius 11 Manuscript

by Catherine E. (University Of Miami) Karkov

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 A study of the relationship between text and picture in the only surviving illustrated Anglo-Saxon poetic manuscript. It locates the manuscript within the cultural contexts in which it was produced, documenting its transformation by poets, artists, scholars and editors from biblical poetry to a national historical narrative.
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Beowulf And Old Germanic Metre

by Geoffrey (Brown University, Rhode Island) Russom

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 This 1998 book is a clear and concise account of early Germanic alliterative verse which explains how such verse was treated by the Beowulf poet. It should interest scholars of Old English and related Germanic languages, as well as linguists and those concerned with poetic metre.
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Anglo-Saxon Medicine

by Malcolm Laurence (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia) Cameron

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 This is the first book to study Old English medical texts, comparing Anglo-Saxon medical practice with that of the Greeks and Romans, and concluding that it was as good as any previously practised in Western Europe.
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The Metrical Grammar Of Beowulf

by Calvin B. Kendall

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 This book argues that the formal art of the Old English epic Beowulf is shaped and determined by the poetic language which the poet inherited from the oral, traditional culture of Anglo-Saxon England.
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The Apocryphal Gospels Of Mary In Anglo-Saxon England

by Mary (University College Dublin) Clayton

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 This book presents an edition, with facing translations and commentary, of three long-neglected Old English apocryphal gospels dealing with the birth, childhood, death and assumption of Mary, extant in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. An extensive introduction covers the origins and development of the apocrypha and their influence in Anglo-Saxon England.
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Heathen Gods In Old English Literature

by Richard (University College London) North

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 Richard North offers an interesting view of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian paganism and mythology in the pre-Viking and Viking age, with special reference to a pre-Christian god known as Ingui. He reconstructs the slender Old English evidence in an imaginative and original treatment of poems such as Deor and The Dream of the Rood.
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The 'Laterculus Malalianus' And The School Of Archbishop Theodore

by Jane (University Of Sheffield) Stevenson

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 This is an edition, with introduction, translation and commentary, of the Laterculus Malalianus, a historical exegesis of the life of Christ, which appears to be the only complete text to survive from the hand of Archbishop Theodore at Canterbury, the first school of Anglo-Saxon England.
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Old English Biblical Verse - Studies In Genesis, Exodus And Daniel

by Paul G. (University Of Washington) Remley

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 This is an extended study of the Old Testament poems of the Junius collection as a group. Remley allows the biblical content of the poems to tell its own story. He compares them with other early medieval texts, and sets out the full range of variants while engaging in hermeneutic and reader-response criticism.
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Two Old English Apocrypha And Their Manuscript Source - The Gospel Of Nichodemus And The Avenging Of The Saviour

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 Professor Cross, in collaboration with four other scholars, presents the manuscript source for the Old English versions of two biblical apocrypha, The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour. Parallel editions of the relevant Latin and Old English texts are given, together with modern English translations.
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Ã†Lfric'S Letter To The Monks Of Eynsham

by Christopher A. (Idaho State University) Jones

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 The Anglo-Saxon scholar Ã†lfric composed an important set of Latin liturgical instructions for his fellow monks. This 1999 book contains an edition of the Latin text with a critical apparatus, and a complete English translation, along with a commentary and substantial introductory chapters.
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The Hymns Of The Anglo-Saxon Church - A Study And Edition Of The 'Durham Hymnal'

by Inge B. (Katholieke Universiteit Eichstatt, Germany) Milfull

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 This 1996 book provides a study and critical edition of the corpus of hymns sung by monks and canons in their services in England before the Norman Conquest. An eleventh-century Latin manuscript known as the 'Durham Hymnal', with its accompanying Old English interlinear gloss, makes up the core of the edition.
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The Composition Of Old English Poetry

by Hal (New York University) Momma

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 This book offers an imaginative way of understanding the relationship between syntax and metre in Old English poetry. It challenges the view that verse was composed in loose syntax to compensate for the strict requirements of prosody. The author proposes a 'prosodical' syntax to replace the famous syntactic laws of Hans Kuhn.
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Rewriting Old English In The Twelfth Century

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 This book, published in 2000, is a substantial publication in the growing field of studies of texts in Old English in the twelfth (and early thirteenth) century. Useful to historians, linguists, English, Anglo-Norman and Latin literature scholars and manuscript specialists, it covers a wide variety of significant issues including production, audience, contents and uses.
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Visible Song - Transitional Literacy In Old English Verse

by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe

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 This book throws light on the debate about the 'orality' or 'literacy' of Old English verse, whether it was transmitted orally or written down.
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The Textuality Of Old English Poetry

by Carol Braun (University Of California, Santa Barbara) Pasternack

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 This study constructs a reading of Old English poetry which takes up issues in poststructuralist theory, arguing that for this genre of poetry the idea of 'verse sequences' should replace the 'poem' and 'implied tradition' should replace the idea of 'the author'.
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Images Of Community In Old English Poetry

by Hugh (Queen'S University Belfast) Magennis

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 This book identifies key features of the audience or readership of Old English poetry in the late Anglo-Saxon period, and relates the interests of these groups of people to themes reflected in the poetic texts.
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The Irish Tradition In Old English Literature

by Charles D. Wright

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 Charles Wright identifies the characteristic features of Irish Christian literature which influenced Anglo-Saxon vernacular authors. As a full-length study of Irish influence on Old English religious literature, the book will appeal to scholars in Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon studies, and Old and Middle Irish literature.
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Archbishop Theodore - Commemorative Studies On His Life And Influence

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 Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury (668â€"90), shaped the English Church into a structure it has retained for a millennium. In this book, internationally distinguished scholars provide a fresh account of the career and writings of a unique personality who brought to Anglo-Saxon England the cultural heritage of Syria, Byzantium and Rome.
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Paradise, Death And Doomsday In Anglo-Saxon Literature

by Ananya Jahanara (Trinity College, Cambridge) Kabir

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 How did the Anglo-Saxons conceptualize the interim between death and Doomsday? In Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature, first published in 2001, Dr Kabir presents an investigation into the Anglo-Saxon belief in the 'interim paradise': paradise as a temporary abode for good souls following death and pending the final decisions of Doomsday.
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The Intellectual Foundations Of The English Benedictine Reform

by Mechthild (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen) Gretsch

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 This book explores the intellectual foundations of the Benedictine reform in tenth-century England. It examines the importance of the vernacular at Bishop Ã†thelwold's influential Winchester school. Ã†thelwold's early career is also examined, showing the influence King Ã†thelstan's court had on intellectual and spiritual thought.
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Trinity And Incarnation In Anglo-Saxon Art And Thought

by Barbara C. Raw

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 This book is an illustrated study of the theology of the Trinity as expressed in the literature and art of the late Anglo-Saxon period. It will be of interest to art historians, theologians and literary scholars alike.
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