The Earliest English Kings
The Earliest English Kings

Author: D. P. Kirby

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1134548133

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First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

Author: Mary P. Richards

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1317758900

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The study of manuscripts is fundamental to the appreciation of Anglo-Saxon texts and culture. Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Basic Readings provides an introductory collection of materials covering basic terms, techniques, resources, issues, and applications. Focusing on manuscripts copied before 1100 in England, the selections gathered here consider their history, production, analysis, and significance. Drawn from a variety of published sources and new writings commissioned for this collection, these essays offer a thorough background in principles and practices, along with up-to-date coverage of new developments in paleography. This interdisciplinary collection introduces key subjects of research for Anglo-Saxon studies while suggesting potential developments and new directions within the field.

Northumbria, 500-1100
Northumbria, 500-1100

Author: David Rollason

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-09-25

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780521813358

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Carolingian Connections
Carolingian Connections

Author: Joanna Story

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 135195332X

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The Anglo-Saxon influence on the Carolingian world has long been recognised by historians of the early medieval period. Wilhelm Levison, in particular, has drawn attention to the importance of the Anglo-Saxon contribution to the cultural and ecclesiastical development of Carolingian Francia in the central decades of the eighth century. What is much less familiar is the reverse process, by which Francia and Carolingian concepts came to influence contemporary Anglo-Saxon culture. In this book Dr Story offers a major contribution to the subject of medieval cultural exchanges, focusing on the degree to which Frankish ideas and concepts were adopted by Anglo-Saxon rulers. Furthermore, by concentrating on the secular context and concepts of secular government as opposed to the more familiar ecclesiastical and missionary focus of Levison's work, this book offers a counterweight to the prevailing scholarship, providing a much more balanced overview of the subject. Through this reassessment, based on a close analysis of contemporary manuscripts - particularly the Northumbrian sources - Dr Story offers a fresh insight into the world of early medieval Europe.

The Gaelic Background of Old English Poetry before Bede
The Gaelic Background of Old English Poetry before Bede

Author: Colin A. Ireland

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-01-19

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 1501513877

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Seventh-century Gaelic law-tracts delineate professional poets (filid) who earned high social status through formal training. These poets cooperated with the Church to create an innovative bilingual intellectual culture in Old Gaelic and Latin. Bede described Anglo-Saxon students who availed themselves of free education in Ireland at this culturally dynamic time. Gaelic scholars called sapientes (“wise ones”) produced texts in Old Gaelic and Latin that demonstrate how Anglo-Saxon students were influenced by contact with Gaelic ecclesiastical and secular scholarship. Seventh-century Northumbria was ruled for over 50 years by Gaelic-speaking kings who could access Gaelic traditions. Gaelic literary traditions provide the closest analogues for Bede’s description of Cædmon’s production of Old English poetry. This ground-breaking study displays the transformations created by the growth of vernacular literatures and bilingual intellectual cultures. Gaelic missionaries and educational opportunities helped shape the Northumbrian “Golden Age”, its manuscripts, hagiography, and writings of Aldhelm and Bede.

Historia Selebiensis Monasterii
Historia Selebiensis Monasterii

Author: Janet Burton

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-08-22

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0199675953

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A critical edition, translation, and study of a historical narrative compiled at the Benedictine abbey of Selby in Yorkshire in 1174 by a monk of the community. It tells the story of a runaway monk of the French monastery of Auxerre, his travels to England, and his foundation of a hermitage on the banks of the River Ouse.