Author: Francis Andrew March
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: anglo, saxon, brief, grammar, notes, reader, introduction, philological
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-07-17
List price: $21.75
ISBN-10: 1113096411
ISBN-13: 9781113096418

Author: Alexander R. Rumble
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Keywords: saxon, anglo, centre, studies, manchester, england, texts, writing, pubns
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2006-10-19
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 1843840901
ISBN-13: 9781843840909

Palaeography is crucial for an understanding of Anglo-Saxon history, literature, and archaeology, while the development of Anglo-Saxon literacy has much significance as a cultural indicator. The papers in this book offer an original and multidisciplinary approach to the study of the introduction and use of writing in the Latin alphabet in Anglo-Saxon England. They consider the variety of contexts in which letter-forms were executed and texts were copied in England between the seventh and eleventh centuries: in books, documents, textiles, stones, and metalwork. Several of the papers shed new li

Author: Della Hooke
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: saxon, anglo, history, studies, charter, worcestershire, bounds
Number of Pages: 453
Published: 1990-08-02
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0851152767
ISBN-13: 9780851152769

The county of Worcestershire, finally formed before the Conquest around the burh of Worcester, is exceptionally rich in charter material. The charters contain an unusual amount of valuable topographical detail -in descriptions of location, in comments on the appurtenances of an estate and especially within the boundary clauses which accompany many of the grants or leases. From this very full body of texts, Dr Hooke has been able to identify features which have enabled her to reconstruct the landscape of Anglo-Saxon Worcestershire to a remarkable degree.

Author: C. R. Dodwell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: anglo, saxon, studies, england, cambridge, roman, gestures, stage
Number of Pages: 189
Published: 2000-01-28
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0521661889
ISBN-13: 9780521661881

This book is concerned with the pictorial language of gesture revealed in Anglo-Saxon art, and its debt to classical Rome. The late Reginald Dodwell, an eminent art historian, notes a striking similarity of both form and meaning between Anglo-Saxon gestures and those in illustrated manuscripts of the plays of Terence, which, he argues, reflect actual Roman stage conventions. The extensively illustrated volume illuminates our understanding of the vigor of late Anglo-Saxon art and its ability to absorb and transpose continental influence.

Author: Lesley Abrams
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: anglo, saxon, studies, history, church, glastonbury, endowment
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 1996-07-01
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0851153690
ISBN-13: 9780851153698

The early history of the religious community at Glastonbury has been the subject of much speculation and imaginative writing, but there are few sources which genuinely further our knowledge of Glastonbury Abbey in the Anglo-Saxon period. This has resulted in a lack of serious historical research and hence the neglect of an important ecclesiastical establishment. This study brings together the evidence of royal and episcopal grants of land and combines it with material from Domesday Book, to produce a survey of the landed endowment of Glastonbury Abbey before 1066, and an analysis of the histor

Author: Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: anglo, saxon, studies, england, cambridge, literature, death, paradise, doomsday
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 2001-12-24
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0521806003
ISBN-13: 9780521806008

How did the Anglo-Saxons conceptualise the interim between death and Doomsday? In Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature, Dr. Kabir presents the first investigation into the Anglo-Saxon belief in the "interim paradise" or paradise as a temporary abode for good souls following death and pending the final decisions of Doomsday. She determines the origins of this distinctive sense of paradise within early Christian polemics, establishes its Anglo-Saxon development as a site of contestation and compromise, and argues for its post-Conquest transformation into the doctrine of purgat

Author: Catherine E. Karkov
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: saxon, anglo, studies, england, portraits, ruler
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-07-15
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 1843830590
ISBN-13: 9781843830597

Between the reign of Alfred in the late ninth century and the arrival of the Normans in 1066, a unique set of images of kingship and queenship was developed in Anglo-Saxon England, images of leadership that centred on books, authorship and learning rather than thrones, sword and sceptres. Focusing on the cultural and historical contexts in which these images were produced, this book explores the reasons for their development, and their meaning and function within both England and early medieval Europe. It explains how and why they differ from their Byzantine and Continental counterparts, and w