Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 23 (Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 23) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521472008 ISBN 13: 9780521472005

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

This volume looks at the charters of mid tenth-century English kings, an important primary source of our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England.

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Reseña del editor

One of the most important primary sources for our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England is the charters and manuscripts which survive from the period before 1066. In the present book, two complementary essays treat the charters of mid tenth-century English kings, bringing previously unknown documents to light, establishing the circumstances in which they were produced, and demonstrating that changes in practice in the royal chancery had far-reaching effect on all aspects of Anglo-Saxon script and book production. The question of the medieval representation of women is illuminated by a study of the difficulties which a well-known monastic author, Ælfric, faced in characterizing an Old Testament heroine who used her body to achieve her ends, while a number of traditional assumptions about the property rights of divorced women in England are freshly challenged by close philological analysis of surviving law-codes. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521472008
• ISBN 13: 9780521472005
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 341
• Herausgeber: Lapidge Michael, Godden Malcolm, Keynes Simon
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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