Anglo-Saxon England

This volume includes material extending from evidence of Frankish influence on Bath Abbey to a post-Conquest gradual recognized as testimony to pre-Conquest music.

Peter Clemoes (Edited by)

9780521038614, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 October 2007

284 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.432 kg

The materials studied in this volume extend from small pieces of evidence made to reveal Frankish influence on the beginnings of Bath Abbey to a post-Conquest gradual recognized as unique testimony to the pre-Conquest music of Christ Church, Canterbury. An arcane style of Latin poetry much in vogue in tenth-century England is given a full account; likewise an eleventh-century Canterbury copy of a large anthology of Latin poetry for classroom use is properly described. A discussion of the aesthetic principles governing the use of colour in Anglo-Saxon manuscript illumination raises artistic questions not usually considered separately. The corpus of known Anglo-Saxon moneyers is further rectified; late Anglo-Saxon metal-work is surveyed; two decades of post-Stenton debate about the Viking settlements are reviewed; a system of standardizing short titles for Old English texts is presented and there is the usual bibliography of the previous year's corpus of Anglo-Saxon studies.

List of illustrations
1. Continental influence at Bath monastery in the seventh century Patrick Sims-Williams
2. Linguistic facts and the interpretation of Old English poetry Bruce Mitchell
3. The garments that honour the cross in The Dream of the Rood James Smith
4. Figural narrative in Cynewulf's Juliana Joseph Wittig
5. Old English composite homilies from Winchester M. R. Godden
6. The hermeneutic style in tenth-century Anglo-Latin literature Michael Lapidge
7. A Canterbury classbook of the mid-eleventh century (the 'Cambridge Songs' manuscript) A. G. Rigg and G. R. Wieland
8. An unknown English Benedictine gradual of the eleventh century K. D. Hartzell
9. Some aesthetic principles in the use of colour in Anglo-Saxon art J. J. G. Alexander
10. Corrections to Hildebrand's corpus of Anglo-Saxon moneyers: from Cnut to Edward the Confessor Veronica Smart
11. Late Anglo-Saxon metal-work: an assessment David A. Hinton
12. The Vikings in England: a review Gillian Fellows Jensen
13. Short titles of Old English texts Bruce Mitchell, Christopher Ball and Angus Cameron
14. Bibliography for 1974 Martin Biddle, Alan Brown, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton and Peter Hunter Blair.

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