Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 43

Cambridge University Press, 1/8/2015
EAN 9781107099678, ISBN10: 1107099676

Hardcover, 387 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
Language: English

The forty-third volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains three contributions on Latin learning in the early part of the period, two focusing on texts being studied at Canterbury, and a third discussing the recording of Cuthbert's cult at Lindisfarne. Old English poetry is well represented by three contributions which exemplify new approaches towards poetic diction and its sources, and reinterpret Cynewulf's use of runes. Old English prose meanwhile receives further attention through a reassessment of its intended audience, and in an analysis of Andreas. There is also a discussion of an unusual prayer first attested in the Leofric Missal. The theme of kingship is addressed in an article on different representations of King Cnut in Old English, Latin and Old Norse texts, and in an extended review of demonstrably or arguably 'royal' books in the Anglo-Saxon period. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.

1. Record of the sixteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Dublin, 29 July-2 August 2013 Susan Irvine
2. Isidore's Etymologiae at the school of Canterbury David Porter
3. Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, CLM 6298
a new witness of the biblical commentaries from the Canterbury school Evina Steinova
4. Rewriting the ecclesiastical landscape of early medieval Northumbria in the Lives of Cuthbert Joey McMullen
5. Old English poetic diction not in Old English verse or prose and the curious case of Aldhelm's five athletes Mark Griffiths
6. Reading, writing, and resurrection
Cynewulf's runes as a figure of the body Jill Clements
7. Constructing the monstrous body in Beowulf Megan Cavell
8. The sevenfold-fivefold-threefold litany of the saints in the Leofric Missal and beyond Robin Norris
9. The audience for Old English texts
Ælfric, rhetoric and the 'edification of the simple' Helen Gittos
10. National-ethnic narratives in eleventh-century literary representations of Cnut Jacob Hobson
11. Kings and books in Anglo-Saxon England David Pratt.