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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 47

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 The contributions to the forty-seventh volume of Anglo-Saxon England focus on various aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history across a period from the sixth to the thirteenth century, from skaldic art at Cnut's court to the Germanic context of Beowulf. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.
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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 50

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 Contributions to the fiftieth volume of Anglo-Saxon England range from the seventh century with studies of Archbishop Theodore's computus,and Aldhelm's Irish influences, into modernity, with new accounts of John Leland's De uiris illustribus, and of iron as a metaphor for Old English verse in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 49

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 Contributions to the forty-ninth volume of Anglo-Saxon England focus on various aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history across a period from the sixth to the thirteenth century, from Anglo-Saxon wedding rites in be wifmannes beweddunge to isotopic evidence of elite diets and a reassessment of feorm. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.
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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 43

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 The forty-third volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains three contributions on Latin learning in the early part of the period and three articles on Old English poetry. Old English prose and its audience are also discussed, as are the Leofric Missal and differing representations of King Cnut.
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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 42

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 The forty-second volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains articles on a 'new' Anglo-Latin poet, the activities of an exiled Norman archbishop of Canterbury, palaeography, philology, Old English language and literature, tenth-century diplomacy, and numismatics. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.
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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 41

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 The forty-first volume of Anglo-Saxon England ranges from the seventh century to the eleventh, 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 worldwide. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.
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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 38

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 Anglo-Saxon England was the first publication to consistently embrace all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Articles in volume 38 include: Understanding Numbers in MS London, British Library Harley by Daniel Anlezark and Tudor Antiquaries and the Vita Ã†dwardi Regis by Henry Summerso.
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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 39

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 Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Articles in volume 39 include: 'Why is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle about kings?' by Nicholas Brooks and 'The Homiliary of Angers in tenth-century England' by Winfried Rudolf.
Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 34

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 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. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.
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Anglo-Saxon England

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 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.
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Anglo-Saxon England

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 This volume offers insights into the Anglo-Saxons' literature, their study of Latin, their documents, art and artefacts and their agricultural practices, among others.
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Anglo-Saxon England

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 Manuscripts are the form of evidence most studied in this volume. Among others, the likely seventh- and eighth-century English ownership of a fifth-century copy of a Hieronymian commentary is reconstructed, and an edition and full discussion of the eighth-century Anglian collection of royal genealogies and regnal lists advance our understanding of this difficult material.
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Anglo-Saxon England

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 In this volume, 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.
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Anglo-Saxon England

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 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. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book.
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Anglo-Saxon England

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 This volume offers fundamental evidence and discussion illuminating a wide range of important subjects in Anglo-Saxon history. Early and late periods and north and south find a place in this searching treatment of intellectual, cultural and settlement issues. The usual comprehensive bibliography rounds off the book.
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Anglo-Saxon England

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 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. A comprehensive index to volumes 11â€"15 is also included.
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Anglo-Saxon England

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 This volume tackles a number of challenging questions while also offering a publication of findings concerning a striking sculptured stone unearthed at Repton and an interpretation of a panel on the Ruthwell Cross, two source studies of vernacular prose, a demonstration of Aldhelm's interest in how a name is related to its referent, and a searching enquiry into early Anglo-Saxon kingship.
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 Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture.
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 Four very different kinds of Anglo-Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume â€" 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 (surprisingly, no doubt, to some) a mainly rational attitude to medicine.
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Anglo-Saxon England

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 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.
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Anglo-Saxon England

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 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.
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Anglo-Saxon England

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 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. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.
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Anglo-Saxon England

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 This volume of Anglo-Saxon England provides fresh perspectives on familiar subjects, across all disciplines - whether literary, philological, legal, historical or palaeographical - in the field. Two Latin texts from the circle of Archbishop Wulfstan are published here in full for the first time. The volume also contains two pioneering essays in the histoire des mentalitÃ©s.
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Anglo-Saxon England

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 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. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book, along with an index.
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