Books in the Anglo-Saxon England series

That Alcuin addressed to the monks of Lindisfarne the question, 'What has Ingeld to do with Christ?', is a much repeated dogma in Old English studies; but in this book close examination of the letter in question shows that it was addressed not to Lindisfarne nor to a monastic community, but to a bishop in Mercia.

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. The usual comprehensive bibliography rounds off the book.

Material evidence brought to light in this book includes a niello disc from Limpsfield Grange (Surrey) and two fragments of a composite Old English homily discovered in Westminster Abbey. Many previously accepted scholarly positions are reassessed and challenged. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book, along with an index.

Ideas about the whole sweep of Anglo-Saxon history and in particular the importance of combining skills from many disciplines are at the centre of this volume. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Manuscripts are the form of evidence most studied in this volume. Among others, the likely seventh- and eighth-century English ownership of a fifth-century copy of a Hieronymian commentary is reconstructed, and an edition and full discussion of the eighth-century Anglian collection of royal genealogies and regnal lists advance our understanding of this difficult material.

In 2002, a fragmentary homiliary containing exegetical homilies for the Sundays after Pentecost, came to light. The manuscript apparently dates from the mid-eleventh century, and this volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains a printed edition of this interesting text. The usual comprehensive bibliography is also provided.

This volume offers fundamental evidence and discussion illuminating a wide range of important subjects in Anglo-Saxon history. Early and late periods and north and south find a place in this searching treatment of intellectual, cultural and settlement issues. The usual comprehensive bibliography rounds off the book.

Several unusual fields of study are extensively explored in this volume: a distinctive politico-religious cult, penitentials, inscriptions, the Sutton Hoo whetstone and medical knowledge; while treatments of more 'standard' subjects like late Anglo-Saxon law, King Alfred's Boethius and Beowulf, lead to unusual conclusions.

Place-names, charters, coins and manuscripts are among the forms of evidence studied in this second volume. The topics range from the course of English settlement in the south-east to the power and influence of a leading aristocratic family in the tenth century and the possible presence of Jews in England in the eleventh.

In the present volume, the two essays that frame the book provide exciting insight into the mental world of the Anglo-Saxons by showing how they understood the processes of reading and assimilating knowledge as well as showing how they conceived of time and the passage of the seasons. The usual bibliography rounds off the book.

This volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface, in which it is shown that the unusually formulaic nature of Boniface's letters is best understood as a reflex of the saint's familiarity with vernacular composition. The usual comprehensive bibliography rounds off the book, whilst a full index of volumes 26-30 is provided.

In this volume, one of the most important manuscripts surviving from pre-Conquest England receives penetrating analysis by several scholars. The 'Junius Manuscript' is evaluated from a number of intersecting perspectives, including codicology, decoration, script and punctuation; the confluence of these permits a fresh and convincing dating of this crucially important witness to Old English poetry.

Of outstanding importance in this volume is the first ever attempt to list all the surviving manuscripts that were written or owned in Anglo-Saxon England. A study assembles the widely scattered evidence for slave raiding and slave trading in England. Other contributions examine Latin poems, Beowulf and The Seafarer.

Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture.

This volume illustrates some of the exciting new paths of enquiry which are currently being explored in many diverse fields of Anglo-Saxon studies, including archaeology, legal history, palaeography, Old English syntax and poetic style, and Latin learning with its many reflexes in Old English prose literature.

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 (surprisingly, no doubt, to some) a mainly rational attitude to medicine.

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. The usual comprehensive bibliography rounds off the book.

Material evidence brought to light in this book includes a niello disc from Limpsfield Grange (Surrey) and two fragments of a composite Old English homily discovered in Westminster Abbey. Many previously accepted scholarly positions are reassessed and challenged. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book, along with an index.

In the present volume, the two essays that frame the book provide exciting insight into the mental world of the Anglo-Saxons by showing how they understood the processes of reading and assimilating knowledge as well as showing how they conceived of time and the passage of the seasons. The usual bibliography rounds off the book.