Anglo-Saxon England

Michael Lapidge (Curatore)

Malcolm Godden (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2007

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, AElfric, 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.

• Curatore: Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Anglo-Saxon England
• Anno: 2007
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 352 p.
• Dimensioni: 228 x 152 mm
• Peso: 529 gr.
• EAN: 9780521038485

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