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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 a mainly rational attitude to medicine. Publication of no less than three discoveries augments our corpus of manuscript evidence. The nature of Old English poetry is illuminated, and a useful summary of the editorial treatment of textual problems in Beowulf is provided. A re-examination of the accounts of the settlement in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle yields insights into the processes of Anglo-Saxon learned historiography and oral tradition. A thorough-going analysis of an under-studied major work, Bald's Leechbook, demonstrates that the compiler, perhaps in King Alfred's reign, translated selections from a wide range of Latin texts in composing a well-organized treatise directed against the diseases prevalent in his time. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Anglo-Saxon England
• Author: Peter ClemoesSimon KeynesMichael Lapidge
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348
• EAN: 9780521038348
• ISBN: 0521038340
• ID: 02019634
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 533 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. October 2007

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