Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and which promotes the more unusual interests - in music or medicine or education, for example. Articles in volume 35 include: Record of the twelfth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists at Bavarian-American Centre, University of Munich, 1-6 August 2005; Virgil the Grammarian and Bede: a preliminary study; Knowledge of whelk dyes and pigments in Anglo-Saxon England; The representation of the mind as an enclosure in Old English poetry; The origin of the numbered sections in Beowulf and in other Old English poems; An ethnic dating of Beowulf; Hrothgar's horses: feral or thoroughbred?; 'thelthryth of Ely in a lost calendar from Munich; Alfred's epistemological metaphors: eagan modes and scip modes; Bibliography for 2005.
| ISBN-13: | 9780521883429 |
| ISBN-10: | 0521883423 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication date: | 2008-01-17 |
| Pages: | 408 |
| Product dimensions: | Height: 9.25 Inches, Length: 6.25 Inches, Weight: 1.71078715312 Pounds, Width: 1.5 Inches |
| Author: | Malcolm Godden, Simon Keynes |
| Language: | en |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
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