The Textuality of Old English Poetry

Carol Braun Pasternack

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 13
• The modern reader knows Old English poetry as a discrete number of poems, set up and printed in units punctuated as modern sentences, and with titles ... Lees meer

Anglo-Saxon Medicine

Malcolm Laurence Cameron

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 7
• This is the first book to make a comprehensive study of Old English medical texts. Professor Cameron compares Anglo-Saxon medical practice with that o... Lees meer

The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform

Mechthild Gretsch

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 25
• This book explores the foundations of the intellectual renaissance in late-tenth-century England, including both the English Benedictine reform and th... Lees meer

The Old English Lives of St Margaret

Mary Clayton, Hugh Magennis

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 9
• This book presents the two Old English versions of the colourful legend of the virgin martyr, St Margaret of Antioch, who became one of the most widel... Lees meer

Beowulf and Old Germanic Metre

Geoffrey Russom

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 23
• This is a clear and accessible account of early Germanic alliterative verse that explains how such verse was treated by the Beowulf poet. There are di... Lees meer

The 'Laterculus Malalianus' and the School of Archbishop Theodore

Jane Stevenson

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 14
• The "Laterculus Malalianus", a historical exegesis of the life of Christ, appears to be the only complete text to survive from the hand of Archbishop ... Lees meer

Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Mechthild Gretsch

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 34
• The literature of Anglo-Saxon England is unique among contemporary European literatures in that it features a vast amount of saints' lives in the vern... Lees meer

Trinity and Incarnation in Anglo-Saxon Art and Thought

Barbara C Raw

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 21
• This book is a study of the theology of the Trinity as expressed in the literature and art of the late Anglo-Saxon period. It examines the meaning of ... Lees meer

Anglo-Saxon Crucifixion Iconography and the Art of the Monastic Revival

Barbara Catherine Raw

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 1
• This book provides a major study of the drawings, paintings and carvings of the crucifixion from tenth- and eleventh-century England, placing these wo... Lees meer

Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry

Peter Clemoes

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 12
• Peter Clemoes brings a lifetime's close study of Anglo-Saxon texts to this fresh appreciation of Old English poetry, with a radically new interpretati... Lees meer

Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic World

Katharine Scarfe Beckett

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 33
• Katherine Scarfe Beckett is concerned with representations of the Islamic world in Anglo-Saxon England. Using a variety of literary, historical and ar... Lees meer

Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage

C R Dodwell

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 28
• 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, ... Lees meer

ÆLfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham

Christopher A Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 24
• Though best known today for his Old English homilies, the Anglo-Saxon scholar Ælfric also composed, in a "letter" to his fellow monks, a set of Latin ... Lees meer

ÆLfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham

Christopher A Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 24
• Though best known today for his Old English homilies, the Anglo-Saxon scholar Ælfric also composed, in a "letter" to his fellow monks, a set of Latin ... Lees meer

Heathen Gods in Old English Literature

Richard North

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 22
• Richard North offers a complete revision of our view of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian paganism and mythology in the pre-Viking and Viking age. He discu... Lees meer

Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry

Peter Clemoes

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 12
• Peter Clemoes brings a lifetime's close study of Anglo-Saxon texts to this fresh appreciation of Old English poetry, with a radically new interpretati... Lees meer

Archbishop Theodore

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 11
• Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury (668SH90), shaped the English Church into a structure it has retained for a millennium. Yet until recently he has r... Lees meer

The Composition of Old English Poetry

Hal Momma

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 20
• This book offers an imaginative new way of understanding the relationship between syntax and meter in Old English verse. It challenges the view that O... Lees meer

The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon England

Mary Clayton

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 2
• The cult of the Virgin Mary is associated by most medievalists with the twelfth and succeeding centuries. This book, however, provides a wide-ranging ... Lees meer

The Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church

Inge B Milfull

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 17
• This book provides a study and critical edition of the corpus of hymns sung by monks and canons in their services in England before the Norman Conques... Lees meer

The Composition of Old English Poetry

Hal Momma

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 20
• This book offers an imaginative new way of understanding the relationship between syntax and meter in Old English verse. It challenges the view that O... Lees meer

Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 29
• This book discusses the attitudes toward Anglo-Saxons expressed by English poets, playwrights and novelists from the thirteenth century to the present... Lees meer

Old English Biblical Verse

Paul G Remley

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 16
• This is the first extended study of the Old Testament poems of the Junius collection as a group. The circumstances surrounding their composition and t... Lees meer

The Old English Lives of St. Margaret

Mary Clayton, Hugh Magennis

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England | nr. 9
• This book presents the two Old English versions of the colourful legend of the virgin martyr, St Margaret of Antioch, who became one of the most widel... Lees meer