Anglo Saxon England Volume 30

Author : Michael Lapidge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521802109
Total Pages : 398 pages
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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 30 written by Michael Lapidge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-12 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pre-eminence of Anglo-Saxon England in its field can be seen as a result of its encouragement of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. Thus this volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface, in which it is shown that the unusually formulaic nature of Boniface's letters is best understood as a reflex of the saint's familiarity with vernacular composition. A wide-ranging historical contextualization of The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle illuminates the way English readers of the later tenth century may have defined themselves in contradistinction to the monstrous unknown, and a fresh reading of the gendering of female portraiture in a famous illustrated manuscript of the Psychomachia of Prudentius (CCCC 23) shows the independent ways in which Anglo-Saxon illustrators were able to respond to their models. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book; and a full index of the contents of volumes 26-30 is provided. (Previous indexes have appeared in volumes 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25.)

Author : International Society of Anglo-Saxonists. Conference
Publisher : Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780866985123
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon England and the Visual Imagination written by International Society of Anglo-Saxonists. Conference and published by Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Anglo-Saxons visualize the world that they inhabited? How did their artwork and iconography help to confirm their identity as a people? What influences shaped their visual imagination? This volume brings together a wide range of scholarly perspectives on the role of visuality in the production of culture. Jewels, weapons, crosses, coins, and other artifacts; descriptive passages in literature; types of script; deluxe illuminated manuscripts; and runes and other written inscriptions, whether real or imagined -- all receive scrutiny in this collection of new essays. Noteworthy for its interdisciplinary scope, the volume features arresting work by experts in archaeology, art history, literary studies, linguistics, numismatics, and manuscript studies. The volume as a whole demonstrates the power of current scholarship to cast light on the visual imagination of the past.

Author : Catherine E. Karkov
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843830597
Total Pages : 246 pages
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Download or read book The Ruler Portraits of Anglo-Saxon England written by Catherine E. Karkov and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues that this series of portraits, never before studied as a corpus, creates a visual genealogy equivalent to the textual genealogies and regnal lists that are so much a feature of late Anglo-Saxon culture. As such they are an important part of the way in which the kings and queens of early medieval England created both their history and their kingdom."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Peter Clemoes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521332033
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 13 written by Peter Clemoes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-04-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture.

Author : Michael Lapidge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521813440
Total Pages : 436 pages
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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 32 written by Michael Lapidge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the centuries of its existence, Anglo-Saxon society was highly, if not widely, literate: it was a society the functioning of which depended very largely on the written word. All the essays in this volume throw light on the literacy of Anglo-Saxon England, from the writs which were used as the instruments of government from the eleventh century onwards, to the normative texts which regulated the lives of Benedictine monks and nuns, to the runes stamped on an Anglo-Saxon coin, to the pseudorunes which deliver the coded message of a man to his lover in a well-known Old English poem, to the mysterious writing on an amulet which was apparently worn by a religious for a personal protection from the devil. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

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Total Pages : 352 pages
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Author : Michael Lapidge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521652032
Total Pages : 464 pages
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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28 written by Michael Lapidge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is framed by articles that throw interesting light on the achievement and reputation of the greatest of Anglo-Saxon kings - Alfred.

Author : Timothy Venning
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445624591
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book The Kings & Queens of Anglo-Saxon England written by Timothy Venning and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major re-examination of an important period in British history

Author : Michael Lapidge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521558457
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 24 written by Michael Lapidge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains studies of texts that have come down to us from pre-Conquest times, thus enhancing our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England.

Author : Michael Lapidge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521790710
Total Pages : 380 pages
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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 29 written by Michael Lapidge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-08 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editorial policy of Anglo-Saxon England has been to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. This approach is pursued in exemplary fashion by many of the essays in this volume. Fresh light is thrown on the dating and form of Cynewulf's poem The Fates of the Apostles through a comprehensive study of the historical martyrologies of the Carolingian period on which Cynewulf is presumed to have drawn. The literary form of Ælfric's Preface to his translation of Genesis is illustrated through a wide-ranging study of the rhetorical genre of preface-writing in the early Middle Ages (the genre which subsequently was known as the ars dictaminis), and the problems which Ælfric faced and solved in composing a Life of St Æthelthryth are illustrated through detailed comparison of the sources which he utilized. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.