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Fully annotated edition of the 'Sermo ad Anglos' with a glossary
that includes an introductory examination of Wulfstan's works and
career.
This 1982 collection of essays examines Ireland's relations with
the rest of western Europe between AD 400 and 1200. They show the
idiosyncratic ways in which Ireland responded to external stimuli
and illustrate the view that early Irish history, religion,
politics and art should be seen not in isolation but as vital
contributors to the development of European culture. This was the
firmly held opinion of Kathleen Hughes, to whose memory these
essays, specially commissioned from leading scholars in the field,
are dedicated. The range of essays reflects the diversity of early
Ireland's history and the extent of her influence upon other
cultures. The ecclesiastical tradition and hagiography form one
area of study; political expansion and diplomatic history, as well
as literary and artistic influences, are also discussed. The
subjects are variously introduced as they affect Ireland's
relations with Scotland, Anglo-Saxon England, Merovingian Gaul, the
Scandinavians and the Welsh.
This 1930 volume contains the original texts, with translations and
commentaries, of the great majority of surviving Anglo-Saxon wills
drawn up in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The documents are of
special interest for the light they cast on the families and
connections of those who made the wills, and on the ways in which
the testators managed the disposition of their lands and other
possessions. The reissue of Professor Whitelock's book is
complemented by reissues of Florence Harmer's Select English
Historical Documents of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries (1914), and
of Agnes Jane Robertson's Anglo-Saxon Charters (1939, 2nd edition
1956). Between them, the three volumes represent the surviving
corpus of Anglo-Saxon documents in the vernacular, to set beside
the corpus of royal diplomas (in Latin), and the corpus of
Anglo-Saxon legislation, and to serve at the same time as evidence
of the uses of written English in the Anglo-Saxon period.
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