Peter Clemoes (ed.)

Anglo-Saxon England

Herausgeber: Biddle, Martin; Clemoes, Peter; Brown, Julian

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Several unusual fields of study are extensively explored including a distinctive politico-religious cult, penitentials, inscriptions, the Sutton Hoo whetstone and medical knowledge.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9780521038331
• ISBN-10: 0521038332
• Artikelnr.: 23036010

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations; 1. The cults of murdered royal saints in Anglo-Saxon
England D. W. Rollason; 2. The tradition of penitentials in Anglo-Saxon
England Allen J. Frantzen; 3. Cnut's law code of 1018 A. G. Kennedy; 4. A
supplement to Hand-List of Anglo-Saxon Non-Runic Inscriptions Elisabeth
Okasha; 5. The Sutton Hoo whetstone sceptre: a study in iconography and
cultural milieu Michael J. Enright; 6. The sources of medical knowledge in
Anglo-Saxon England M. L. Cameron; 7. King Alfred's Boethius and its Latin
sources: a reconsideration Joseph S. Wittig; 8. 'Warriors' in Beowulf: an
analysis of the nominal compounds and an evaluation of the poet's use of
them Caroline Brady; 9. The formative stages of Beowulf textual
scholarship: part I Birte Kelly; 10. Bibliography for 1981 Carl T.
Berkhout, Martin Biddle, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton, C. R. E. Coutts and
Simon Keynes.