Anglo-Saxon England v8 - Couverture souple

Clemoes, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521038650 ISBN 13 : 9780521038652

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

The authors of this volume tackle a wide range of questions in Anglo-Saxon history and culture.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Through close analysis and careful weighing of evidence the authors of this volume tackle a wide range of questions in Anglo-Saxon history and culture and often arrive at opinions different from those generally accepted. Contributions are made on subjects as diverse as the Anglo-Saxon settlement, early Northumbrian history, the 'weapon' vocabulary of Beowulf, world history in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a woman's stock of clothes in the mid-tenth century and vernacular preaching before Ælfric. Historical studies are represented by an examination of the position of the ætheling in matters of royal succession, by a refutation of the doctrine of muddle in the records of earliest Northumbria and by an identification of the sources of the Chronicle's knowledge of world history, showing in particular that the compilation of the Chronicle and the composition of the Old English Orosius are not likely to have been closely connected, as has often been thought. 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: 0521038650
• ISBN 13: 9780521038652
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 392
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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