Anglo-Saxon England [Paperback]

Anglo-Saxon England encourages an interdisciplinary approach to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture, pursued in exemplary fashion by this volume.Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture--linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic. Volume 29 includes: The archetype of Beowulf; Genesis A and the Anglo-Saxon 'migration myth'; The Junius Psalter gloss: its historical and cultural context; The 'robed Christ' in pre-Conquest sculptures of the Crucifixion; Aethelweard's Chronicon and Old English poetry; Aelfric's Preface to Genesis genre, rhetoric and the origins of the ars dictaminis; Cnut and Lotharingia: two notes; Bibliography for 1999.Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture--linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic. Volume 29 includes: The archetype of Beowulf; Genesis A and the Anglo-Saxon 'migration myth'; The Junius Psalter gloss: its historical and cultural context; The 'robed Christ' in pre-Conquest sculptures of the Crucifixion; Aethelweard's Chronicon and Old English poetry; Aelfric's Preface to Genesis genre, rhetoric and the origins of the ars dictaminis; Cnut and Lotharingia: two notes; Bibliography for 1999.Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication that consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture--linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic. Volume 29 includes: The archetype of Beowulf; Genesis A and the Anglo-Saxon migration myth ; The Junius Psalter gloss: its historical and cultural context; The robed Christ in pre-Conquest sculptures of the Crucifixion; Aethelweard's Chronicon and Old English poetry; Aell“+