Anglo-Saxon England 23

LAPIDGE, MICHAEL, ED

ISBN 10: 0521472008 / ISBN 13: 9780521472005

Edité par Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Anglo-Saxon England 23
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Date de parution: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521472008
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521472005
• Reliure: Hard Cover
• Édition: First Edition, First printing.
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • English History: Medieval

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Synopsis

This volume looks at the charters of mid tenth-century English kings, an important primary source of our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England.

Présentation de l'éditeur

One of the most important primary sources for our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England is the charters and manuscripts which survive from the period before 1066. In the present book, two complementary essays treat the charters of mid tenth-century English kings, bringing previously unknown documents to light, establishing the circumstances in which they were produced, and demonstrating that changes in practice in the royal chancery had far-reaching effect on all aspects of Anglo-Saxon script and book production. The question of the medieval representation of women is illuminated by a study of the difficulties which a well-known monastic author, Ælfric, faced in characterizing an Old Testament heroine who used her body to achieve her ends, while a number of traditional assumptions about the property rights of divorced women in England are freshly challenged by close philological analysis of surviving law-codes. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.