England Before the Conquest
England Before the Conquest
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Concerned with the basic materials of documents, literature, art, place-names, inscriptions, coins, buildings and archaeological finds, the twenty-two original studies that make up this 1971 text brought fresh understanding to various important topics in Anglo-Saxon scholarship. Native, continental, Scandinavian and Irish elements in five centuries of Anglo-Saxon history are represented. Each contribution exemplifies the methods and expertise of a modern specialisation, but collectively the essays show the value of a joint approach. They form a fitting tribute to a scholar who has kept primary sources to the forefront in her own work and who has illuminated an exceptionally wide range of them.
Product details
- Published: June 2010
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780521144582
- Length: 444 pages
- Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 25 mm
- Weight: 0.65kg
- Availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1. The writings of Dorothy Whitelock
- 2. The letters of Pope Boniface V and the mission of Paulinus to Northumbria Peter Hunter Blair
- 3. Bede's text of Libellus Responsionum of Gregory the Great to Augustine of Canterbury Paul Meyvaert
- 4. A background to St Boniface's mission J. M. Wallace-Hadrill
- 5. Evidence for contacts between the churches of the Irish and English from the Synod of Whitby to the Viking Age Kathleen Hughes
- 6. The development of military obligations in eighth- and ninth-century England Nicholas Brooks
- 7. Ælfric and the Old English version of the Ely privilege John Pope
- 8. Towns in late Anglo-Saxon England: the evidence and some possible lines of enquiry Henry Loyn
- 9. Regnum and sacerdotium in the early eleventh century Dorothy Bethurum Loomis
- 10. Scandinavian settlement in the territory of the Five Boroughs: the place-name evidence in part III, the Grimston-hybrids Kenneth Cameron
- 11. How long did the Scandinavian language survive in England R. I. Page
- 12. Personal names on the coinage of Edgar Olof von Feilitzen and Christopher Blunt
- 13. The narrative mode of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle before the Conquest Cecily Clark
- 14. The classic additions in the Old English Orosius Janet Bately
- 15. The orientation system in the Old English Orosius René Derolez
- 16. The ethic of war in old English J. E. Cross
- 17. The use in Beowulf of earlier heroic verse Alistair Campbell
- 18. Cynewulf's image of the Ascension Peter Clemoes
- 19. The 'Winchester School' before St Æthelwold Francis Wormald
- 20. The handwriting of Archbishop Wulfstan Neil Ker
- 21. The nummular brooch from Sulgrave Michael Dolley
- 22. Repton reconsidered: a study in structural criticism H. M. Taylor
- 23. Archaeology and the beginnings of English society Martin Biddle
- Index.
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