Textual and Material Culture in Anglo-Saxon England

Textual and Material Culture in Anglo-Saxon England
Title Textual and Material Culture in Anglo-Saxon England PDF eBook
Author D. G. Scragg
Publisher DS Brewer
Pages 376
Release 2003
Genre History
ISBN 9780859917735

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Significant Anglo-Saxon papers, with postscripts, illustrate advances in knowledge of life and culture of pre-Conquest England. Thomas Northcote Toller, of the Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, is one of the most influential but least known Anglo-Saxon scholars of the early twentieth century. The Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies at Manchester, where Toller was the first professor of English Language, has an annual Toller lecture, delivered by an expert in the field of Anglo-Saxon Studies; this volume offers a selection from these lectures, brought together for the firsttime, and with supplementary material added by the authors to bring them up to date. They are complemented by the 2002 Toller Lecture, Peter Baker's study of Toller, commissioned specially for this book; and by new examinations ofToller's life and work, and his influence on the development of Old English lexicography. The volume is therefore both an epitome of the best scholarship in Anglo-Saxon studies of the last decade and a half, and a guide for the modern reader through the major advances in our knowledge of the life and culture of pre-Conquest England. , Contributors: RICHARD BAILEY, PETER BAKER, DABNEY ANDERSON BANKERT, JANET BATELY, GEORGE BROWN, ROBERTA FRANK, HELMUT GNEUSS, JOYCE HILL, DAVID A. HINTON, MICHAEL LAPIDGE, AUDREY MEANEY, KATHERINE O'BRIEN O'KEEFFE, JOANA PROUD, ALEXANDER RUMBLE.

The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World

The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World
Title The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World PDF eBook
Author Carole Patricia Biggam
Publisher Exeter Studies in Medieval Eur
Pages 0
Release 2011
Genre History
ISBN 9780859898430

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This illustrated book introduces serious students of Anglo-Saxon culture to selected aspects of the realities of Anglo-Saxon life through reference to artefacts and textual sources. Everyday practices and processes are investigated, such as the exploitation of animals for clothing, meat, cheese and parchment; ships for travel, trade and transport; manufacturing processes of metalwork; textiles for dress and furnishing and the practicalities of living with illness or disability.\~Articles collected in this volume illuminate how an understanding of the material culture of the daily Anglo-Saxon world can inform reading and scholarship in Anglo-Saxon studies. Scholarly and practical material presented inform one another, making the book accessible to any reader seriously interested in England in the early Middle Ages.

The Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World

The Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World
Title The Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World PDF eBook
Author Maren Clegg Hyer
Publisher Exeter Studies in Medieval Eur
Pages 0
Release 2015
Genre History
ISBN 9781781382653

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The Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World, second volume of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World, continues to introduce students of Anglo-Saxon culture to aspects of the realities of the built environment that surrounded Anglo-Saxon peoples through reference to archaeological and textual sources. It considers what structures intruded on the natural landscape the Anglo-Saxons inhabited - roads and tracks, ancient barrows and Roman buildings, the villages and towns, churches, beacons, boundary ditches and walls, grave-markers and standing sculptures - and explores the interrelationships between them and their part in Anglo-Saxon life.

Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture

Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture
Title Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture PDF eBook
Author Emily Kesling
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 249
Release 2020
Genre History
ISBN 1843845490

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Winner of the Best First Monograph from the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (ISSEME) 2021. An examination of the Old English medical collections, arguing that these texts are products of a learned intellectual culture.

Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England

Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England
Title Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England PDF eBook
Author Michael Lapidge
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 494
Release 1985
Genre History
ISBN 0521259029

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An collection of essays by specialists in the field examining Anglo-Saxon learning and text interpretation and transmission.

The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England

The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England
Title The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England PDF eBook
Author Catherine E. Karkov
Publisher Boydell Press
Pages 198
Release 2006
Genre Art
ISBN 9781843831945

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The cross pervaded the whole of Anglo-Saxon culture, in art, in sculpture, in religion, in medicine. These new essays explore its importance and significance.

The Culture of Translation in Anglo-Saxon England

The Culture of Translation in Anglo-Saxon England
Title The Culture of Translation in Anglo-Saxon England PDF eBook
Author Robert Stanton
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Pages 214
Release 2002
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780859916431

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Translation was central to Old English literature as we know it. Most Old English literature, in fact, was either translated or adapted from Latin sources, and this is the first full-length study of Anglo-Saxon translation as a cultural practice. This 'culture of translation' was characterised by changing attitudes towards English: at first a necessary evil, it can be seen developing increasing authority and sophistication. Translation's pedagogical function (already visible in Latin and Old English glosses) flourished in the centralizing translation programme of the ninth-century translator-king Alfred, and English translations of the Bible further confirmed the respectability of English, while lfric's late tenth-century translation theory transformed principles of Latin composition into a new and vigorous language for English preaching and teaching texts. The book will integrate the Anglo-Saxon period more fully into the longer history of English translation.ROBERT STANTON is Assistant Professor of English, Boston College, Massachusetts.