Anglo-Saxon England

350 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The forty-fifth volume of Anglo-Saxon England focusses on various aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history from the seventh to the seventeenth century. In the field of Old English literature, contributions examine a ninth-century homily fragment, The Dream of the Rood, The Seafarer, and the Old English translation of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae. A contribution which explores references to the senses in a wide range of vernacular texts is complemented by another which reconsiders the iconography of the Fuller Brooch. The network of fortifications recorded in the Burghal Hidage is re-interpreted here as a product of political developments in the later 870s; and a new edition of the 'Ely memoranda' reminds us that the religious houses of the tenth and eleventh centuries functioned also as major agricultural estates. Finally, the contribution of seventeenth-century antiquaries to the development of Anglo-Saxon studies is remembered in a study of an early Anglo-Saxon Grammar.

• ISBN: 9781108419253
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.11.2017
• Größe: 234 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Herausgegeben von: Rosalind Love, Simon Keynes, Andy Orchard