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ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
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| By: |
Malcolm Godden (Editor), Professor Michael Lapidge (Editor), Simon Keynes (Editor) |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521038480 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521038485 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
29 June, 2007 |
| Series: |
Anglo-Saxon England No. 19 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
This volume looks at the charters of mid tenth-century English kings, an important primary source of our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England. |
| Synopsis: |
One of the most important primary sources for our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England is the charters and manuscripts which survive from the period before 1066. In the present book, two complementary essays treat the charters of mid tenth-century English kings, bringing previously unknown documents to light, establishing the circumstances in which they were produced, and demonstrating that changes in practice in the royal chancery had far-reaching effect on all aspects of Anglo-Saxon script and book production. The question of the medieval representation of women is illuminated by a study of the difficulties which a well-known monastic author, 'lfric, faced in characterizing an Old Testament heroine who used her body to achieve her ends, while a number of traditional assumptions about the property rights of divorced women in England are freshly challenged by close philological analysis of surviving law-codes. 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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UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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