Anglo-Saxon England v12 - Couverture souple

Clemoes, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521038340 ISBN 13 : 9780521038348

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Four very different kinds of Anglo-Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume of Anglo-Saxon England.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Four very different kinds of Anglo-Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume: traditions, learned and oral, about the settlement of the country, study of foreign-language grammar, interest in exotic jewels as reflections of the glory of God, and a mainly rational attitude to medicine. Publication of no less than three discoveries augments our corpus of manuscript evidence. The nature of Old English poetry is illuminated, and a useful summary of the editorial treatment of textual problems in Beowulf is provided. A re-examination of the accounts of the settlement in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle yields insights into the processes of Anglo-Saxon learned historiography and oral tradition. A thorough-going analysis of an under-studied major work, Bald's Leechbook, demonstrates that the compiler, perhaps in King Alfred's reign, translated selections from a wide range of Latin texts in composing a well-organized treatise directed against the diseases prevalent in his time. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521038340
• ISBN 13: 9780521038348
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 348
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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