Our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England depends wholly on the precise
and detailed study of the texts that have come down to us from
pre-Conquest times. The present book contains pioneering studies of
some of these sources which have been neglected or misunderstood. A
comprehensive study of a group of lavish gospelbooks written under
the patronage of a late Anglo-Saxon countess, Judith of Flanders
(sometime wife of the Earl Tostig who was killed at Stamford Bridge
in 1066) shows the importance of these artefacts and provides fresh
understanding of the transmission of the gospels in late
eleventh-century England. Close analysis of the Libellus
AEthelwoldi, a neglected Latin translation of a late tenth-century
documentary record of the estates acquired by the redoubtable
Bishop AEthelwold for Ely Abbey, throws significant light on the
operations of the laws of land tenure in the late tenth century.
These and other more traditional lines of enquiry are the focus of
this book. 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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