ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND by Peter Clemoes (Editor), Martin Biddle (Editor), Julian Brown (Editor) ( 9780521038614 )

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ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND

By:

Peter Clemoes (Editor), Martin Biddle (Editor), Julian Brown (Editor)

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0521038618

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

29 June, 2007

Series:

Anglo-Saxon England No. 1

Pages:

284

Description:

This volume includes material extending from evidence of Frankish influence on Bath Abbey to a post-Conquest gradual recognized as testimony to pre-Conquest music.

Synopsis:

The materials studied in this volume extend from small pieces of evidence made to reveal Frankish influence on the beginnings of Bath Abbey to a post-Conquest gradual recognized as unique testimony to the pre-Conquest music of Christ Church, Canterbury. An arcane style of Latin poetry much in vogue in tenth-century England is given a full account; likewise an eleventh-century Canterbury copy of a large anthology of Latin poetry for classroom use is properly described. A discussion of the aesthetic principles governing the use of colour in Anglo-Saxon manuscript illumination raises artistic questions not usually considered separately. The corpus of known Anglo-Saxon moneyers is further rectified; late Anglo-Saxon metal-work is surveyed; two decades of post-Stenton debate about the Viking settlements are reviewed; a system of standardizing short titles for Old English texts is presented and there is the usual bibliography of the previous year's corpus of Anglo-Saxon studies.

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