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Anglo-Saxon England (Paperback)
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Anglo-Saxon England (Paperback)
Series: Anglo-Saxon England 34 Volume Paperback Set, Volume 12
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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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