Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 46

The forty-sixth volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains articles on Beowulf, Asser's Life of King Alfred, and Armes Prydein Vawr.

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

9781108499354, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 May 2019

350 pages
23.3 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.81 kg

Contributions to the forty-sixth volume of Anglo-Saxon England focus on aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history across a period from the seventh to the eleventh century. The study of a fragment of a tenth-century sacramentary offers new evidence for the role of music in Anglo-Saxon England, while consideration of charter-evidence in both Latin and Old English from Worcester c.870 to 992 sheds fresh light on institutional interaction between the two main languages of Anglo-Saxon England. Two contributions consider Beowulf and its immediate manuscript-context, the first focusing on the spellings of the second scribe, and the next on the later history of the manuscript into the sixteenth century, facilitating its survival to this day. Finally, a detailed study of English landed society before and after the Norman Conquest has resulted in new perspectives on landed wealth in England in 1066 and 1086. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.

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1. Illuminations of the Tabernacle of Moses and of Ezra in the Codex Amiatinus (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Amiatino 1): Bede, Cassiodorus and the Antiquitates Judaicae of Flavius Josephus Steven H. Wander
2. Bede's rhetorical use of dating formulas in the Historia ecclesiastica Richard Shaw
3. Transcribing the second scribe of Beowulf amid obscurity: for and for J. R. Hall
4. The reformed Nowell Codex and the Beowulf manuscript Kevin Kiernan
5. Ambyrne wind, amberlice and byre in the DOE Online Michael Korhammer
6. Reading Asser in early medieval Wales: the evidence of Armes Prydein Vawr Rebecca Thomas and David Callander
7. The making of the Second English Coronation Ordo David Pratt
8. A fragment of a tenth-century English sacramentary K. D. Hartzell
9. Latin, Old English and documentary practice at Worcester from Wærferth to Oswald Robert Gallagher and Francesca Tinti
10. Wulfstan's noble pagans Ben Reinhard
11. Domesday Book and the transformation of English landed society, 1066?86 Stephen Baxter.

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