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The Anglo-Saxons’ sense of the past, their colour vocabulary and their ties of kinship are among the topics considered in this third volume. Evidence for contemporary ecclesiastical architecture is extracted from an Anglo-Latin poem and evidence for the post-Conquest Anglo-Saxon emigration to Byzantium from an Icelandic saga. A prominent critic of Old English literature provides a reconsideration of The Seafarer. A review article surveys the work of the previous twenty years on Anglo-Saxon charters. The bibliography lists all books, articles and significant reviews published in any branch of Anglo-Saxon studies during 1973.
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The Anglo-Saxons’ sense of the past, their colour vocabulary and their ties of kinship are among the topics considered in this third volume. Evidence for contemporary ecclesiastical architecture is extracted from an Anglo-Latin poem and evidence for the post-Conquest Anglo-Saxon emigration to Byzantium from an Icelandic saga.
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Anglo-Saxonists have been able to use Dr N.R. Ker's admirable Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon for over twenty years now, but so far no comprehensive catalogue or list of Latin manuscripts written in, or imported into, Anglo-Saxon England has been available, although a great deal of information on these manuscripts can be found, much of it in widely scattered publications. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dirige gressus, viii med, laude virginitatis, royal burh, leonine rhyme, rhyming hexameters, hermeneutic style, temporum ratione, old minster, consolatione philosophiae, natura rerum, agrarian history Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Anglo-Saxon England, Nether Wallop, King Alfred, William of Malmesbury, Bodleian Library, New Minster, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, John the Old Saxon, New York, British Library, Cathedral Library, West Saxon, Paulus Diaconus, Total First, University Library, Christ Church, Domesday Book, Middle Ages, Robert Chambers, Roman Britain, British Isles, Hrabanus Maurus, Lives of Saints, Medieval Settlement
Anglo-Saxonists have been able to use Dr N.R. Ker's admirable Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon for over twenty years now, but so far no comprehensive catalogue or list of Latin manuscripts written in, or imported into, Anglo-Saxon England has been available, although a great deal of information on these manuscripts can be found, much of it in widely scattered publications. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dirige gressus, viii med, laude virginitatis, royal burh, leonine rhyme, rhyming hexameters, hermeneutic style, temporum ratione, old minster, consolatione philosophiae, natura rerum, agrarian history Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Anglo-Saxon England, Nether Wallop, King Alfred, William of Malmesbury, Bodleian Library, New Minster, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, John the Old Saxon, New York, British Library, Cathedral Library, West Saxon, Paulus Diaconus, Total First, University Library, Christ Church, Domesday Book, Middle Ages, Robert Chambers, Roman Britain, British Isles, Hrabanus Maurus, Lives of Saints, Medieval Settlement