This volume illustrates some of the exciting paths of enquiry in Anglo-Saxon studies.
52 H. Edwards, 'Cynewulf', ODNB; EHD, i, 175–6, 179–80, 837. 53 Ibid., 175–6. For discussion, see e.g. H. Kleinschmidt, 'The Old English Annal for 757 and West Saxon Dynastic Strife', Journal of Medieval History, 22 (1996); B. Yorke, ...
Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England provides a unique survey of the six major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and their royal families, examining the most recent research in this field.
About the holdings which were created for the provision of knight-service—the 'knights' fees' of feudal records—little can be said in general terms. There were knights' fees which consisted of single villages, and here and there, ...
Place - name evidence for an Anglo - Saxon animal name : OE * pohha / * pocca ' fallow deer ' CAROLE HOUGH It is well known that the extant corpus of Old English literature preserves only a proportion of the vocabulary that once existed ...
In later years, after he has murdered his brother Abel, Cain will suffer exile at God's order: ''foroon pu flema scealt / widlast wrecan, winemagum la®'' (Thus you, hateful to your people, must wander widespread paths; ll. 1020b–21).
The only modern book-length account of Anglo-Saxon legal culture and practice, from the pre-Christian laws of Æthelberht of Kent (c. 600) up to the Norman conquest of 1066, charting the development of kings' involvement in law, in terms ...
Explains how, on the eve of the Norman Conquest, England had become an exceptionally wealthy, highly urbanized kingdom, with a large, well-controlled coinage of high quality.
A major re-examination of an important period in British history
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