Anglo-Saxon England

The forty-fifth volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains articles on Old English Literature, the 'Trumpington Cross', and the Fuller Brooch.

Rosalind Love (Edited by), Simon Keynes (Edited by), Andy Orchard (Edited by)

9781108419253, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 5 October 2017

350 pages
23.4 x 15 x 2.4 cm, 0.83 kg

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.

Record of the seventeenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at the University of Glasgow, 3–7 August 2015 Martin Foys and Susan Irvine
1. The Trumpington Cross in context Sam Lucy
2. A ninth-century Old English homily from Northumbria Donald Scragg
3. The composite authorship of The Dream of the Rood Leonard Neidorf
4. Re-dating Alcuin's De dialectica: or, did Alcuin teach at Lorsch? Eva M. E. Rädler-Bohn
5. Hands and eyes, sight and touch: appraising the senses in Anglo-Saxon England Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
6. The Burghal Hidage and the West Saxon burhs: a reappraisal Jeremy Haslam
7. The Fuller Brooch and Anglo-Saxon depictions of dance Martha Bayless
8. Hybrid forms: translating Boethius in Anglo-Saxon England Erica Weaver
9. The Seafarer, Grammatica, and the making of Anglo-Saxon textual culture Audrey Walton
10. Liturgy or private devotion? Reappraising Warsaw, Biblioteka Narodowa, I. 3311 Gerald P. Dyson
11. Landscapes of devotion: the settings of St Swithun's early Vitae Jennifer A. Lorden
12. Aristocratic deer hunting in late Anglo-Saxon England: a reconsideration, based upon the Vita S. Dvnstani Tim Flight
13. The Ely memoranda and the economy of the late Anglo-Saxon fenland Rory Naismith
14. The earliest modern Anglo-Saxon grammar: Sir Henry Spelman, Abraham Wheelock and William Retchford Peter J. Lucas.

Subject Areas: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC], British & Irish history [HBJD1], History [HB]