ISBN: 9780521038348

ISBN-13: 9780521038348, 978-0521038348. Anglo-Saxon England. Anglo-Saxon England Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you… Mehr…

ISBN-13: 9780521038348, 978-0521038348. Anglo-Saxon England. Anglo-Saxon England Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days).Author(s): Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes, Michael LapidgeFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United KingdomImprint: Cambridge University PressISBN-13: 9780521038348, 978-0521038348SynopsisFour very different kinds of Anglo-Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume: 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 a mainly rational attitude to medicine. Publication of no less than three discoveries augments our corpus of manuscript evidence. The nature of Old English poetry is illuminated, and a useful summary of the editorial treatment of textual problems in Beowulf is provided. A re-examination of the accounts of the settlement in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle yields insights into the processes of Anglo-Saxon learned historiography and oral tradition. A thorough-going analysis of an under-studied major work, Bald's Leechbook, demonstrates that the compiler, perhaps in King Alfred's reign, translated selections from a wide range of Latin texts in composing a well-organized treatise directed against the diseases prevalent in his time. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book., Neu, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Book Title: Anglo-Saxon England, Publication Year: 2007, Type: Textbook, Language: English, Publication Name: Anglo-Saxon England, Item Height: 228mm, Item Width: 152mm, Subject: Archaeology, History, Item Weight: 533g, Number of Pages: 348 Pages, Cambridge University Press<

ISBN: 9780521038348

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 archi… Mehr…

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. A prominent critic of Old English literature provides a reconsideration of The Seafarer. A review article surveys the work of the previous twenty years on Anglo-Saxon charters. The bibliography lists all books, articles and significant reviews published in any branch of Anglo-Saxon studies during 1973. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>World History>World Hist>World History, Cambridge University Press Core >1<

2007, ISBN: 0521038340

Kartoniert / Broschiert HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:Cambridge University Press]