Summary:

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.

Classification:

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Dewey Class: 941 -- General history of Europe British Isles

Book Details:

Physical Description: 6.0"x9.0"x0.9"; 1.2 lb; 348 pages
Edition Info: Paperback; 2007-10-15

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