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The vitality of Anglo-Saxon studies is reflected in the continuing acquisition of fresh knowledge and perspectives gained from the combination of disparate but complementary skills and disciplines. Evidence presented in this book reveals unsuspected aspects of the influence of Aldhelm's Latin poetry in early medieval Spain.

This volume illustrates some of the exciting new paths of enquiry which are currently being explored in many diverse fields of Anglo-Saxon studies, including archaeology, legal history, palaeography, Old English syntax and poetic style, and Latin learning with its many reflexes in Old English prose literature.

Place-names, charters, coins and manuscripts are among the forms of evidence studied in this second volume. The topics range from the course of English settlement in the south-east to the power and influence of a leading aristocratic family in the tenth century and the possible presence of Jews in England in the eleventh.

The principal emphasis of this book is the relationship between England and its neighbours in the pre-Conquest period. It brings together fresh information of England's place in the early medieval world, with essays concentrating on finance and trade, travel, learning and education. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book.

This volume makes important contributions to our stock of primary manuscript evidence on Anglo-Saxon history and culture. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Areas of study pursued in this book include a revealing grammatical document from eighth-century Northumbria; renewed excavations at Sutton Hoo are reported; the existence of an unnoticed late Old English prose version of parts of Gregory's Dialogues is pointed out. A comprehensive index to volumes 11-15 is also included.

This volume offers fundamental evidence and discussion illuminating a wide range of important subjects in Anglo-Saxon history. Early and late periods and north and south find a place in this searching treatment of intellectual, cultural and settlement issues. The usual comprehensive bibliography rounds off the book.

This volume tackles a number of challenging questions while also offering a publication of findings concerning a striking sculptured stone unearthed at Repton and an interpretation of a panel on the Ruthwell Cross, two source studies of vernacular prose, a demonstration of Aldhelm's interest in how a name is related to its referent, and a searching enquiry into early Anglo-Saxon kingship.

Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture.

The contents of this first volume typify the range of interests that will be covered throughout the series. The topics treated include the first two centuries of Christianity in East Anglia; geographical knowledge in King Alfred's court and the contemporary state of our knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon house.

Four very different kinds of Anglo-Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume - traditions, learned and oral, about the settlement of the country, study of foreign-language grammar, interest in exotic jewels as reflections of the glory of God, and (surprisingly, no doubt, to some) a mainly rational attitude to medicine.

Several unusual fields of study are extensively explored in this volume: a distinctive politico-religious cult, penitentials, inscriptions, the Sutton Hoo whetstone and medical knowledge; while treatments of more 'standard' subjects like late Anglo-Saxon law, King Alfred's Boethius and Beowulf, lead to unusual conclusions.

Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Articles in volume 36 include: The name 'Merovingian' and the dating of Beowulf and An abbot, an archbishop and the Viking raids of 1006-7 and 1009-12.

This volume illustrates some of the exciting new paths of enquiry which are currently being explored in many diverse fields of Anglo-Saxon studies, including archaeology, legal history, palaeography, Old English syntax and poetic style, and Latin learning with its many reflexes in Old English prose literature.

Four very different kinds of Anglo-Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume - traditions, learned and oral, about the settlement of the country, study of foreign-language grammar, interest in exotic jewels as reflections of the glory of God, and (surprisingly, no doubt, to some) a mainly rational attitude to medicine.

In the present volume, the two essays that frame the book provide exciting insight into the mental world of the Anglo-Saxons by showing how they understood the processes of reading and assimilating knowledge as well as showing how they conceived of time and the passage of the seasons. The usual bibliography rounds off the book.

In 2002, a fragmentary homiliary containing exegetical homilies for the Sundays after Pentecost, came to light. The manuscript apparently dates from the mid-eleventh century, and this volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains a printed edition of this interesting text. The usual comprehensive bibliography is also provided.

Material evidence brought to light in this book includes a niello disc from Limpsfield Grange (Surrey) and two fragments of a composite Old English homily discovered in Westminster Abbey. Many previously accepted scholarly positions are reassessed and challenged. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book, along with an index.

Our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England depends wholly on the precise and detailed study of the texts that have come down to us from pre-Conquest times. The present book contains pioneering studies of some of these sources which have been neglected or misunderstood. The usual comprehensive bibliography rounds off the book.

Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture.