Latin Learning and English Lore: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge, Volume 1

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University of Toronto Press, Jan 1, 2005 - Literary Criticism - 800 pages

Throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, Latin and Old English were, to large extent, alternative literary languages. Latin Learning and English Lore is a collection of essays examining the complex co-existence of the two languages within the literary, historical, and cultural milieu of Anglo-Saxon England.

More than forty of the leading Anglo-Saxon scholars in the world today have contributed to this two-volume survey of the whole range of Anglo-Saxon Literature in honour of Michael Lapidge, one of the most productive, influential, and important figures of Anglo-Saxon studies in recent years. The contributors include a wide range of the Lapidge's former colleagues, students, and collaborators.

The essays in Latin Learning and English Lore cover material from the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon literary record in the late seventh century to the immediately post-Conquest period of the twelfth century. The volumes together provide an invaluable survey of the rich literature, history, and culture of the period as well as a selection of groundbreaking studies that offer a number of exciting possibilities for future research.

Volume One Contributors
George H. Brown * David Dumville * Michael Fox * Roberta Frank * R.D. Fulk * Mary Garrison * Helmut Gneuss * Malcolm Godden * Mechthild Gretsch * Michael Herren * Simon Keynes * Leslie Lockett * Andy Orchard * Paul Remley * Richard Sharpe * Tom Shippey * Patrick Sims-Williams * Paul E. Szarmach * Michael Winterbottom * Charles D. Wright * Neil Wright

Volume Two Contributors
Peter Baker * Martha Bayless * Robert E. Bjork * Mary Clayton * Antonette diPaolo Healey * Thomas N. Hall * Joyce Hill * Nicholas Howe * Peter Jackson * Christopher A. Jones * Patrizia Lendinara * Roy Michael Liuzza * Rosalind Love * Richard Marsden * Bruce Mitchell * Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe * Oliver Padel * Fred C. Robinson * Katharine Scarfe-Beckett * D.G. Scragg * Jane Stevenson

 

Contents

AngloSaxon Glosses to a Theodorean Poem?
9
London BL Cotton Vespasian B
47
Simon Keynes University of Cambridge
68
Exodus Asser and the Dicta Ælfredi
90
Faricius of Arezzos Life of St Aldhelm
109
Patristic Pomegranates from Ambrose
132
The Medical Arts of Bede
150
King Ceadwallas Roman Epitaph
171
The Sermons Attributed to Candidus Wizo
260
The AngloSaxon RiddleTradition
284
English Script in the Second Half of the Ninth Century
305
Alfred Asser and Boethius
326
Six Cruces in Beowulf Lines 31 83 404 445 1198 and 30745
349
The Role of Grendels Arm in Feud Law and the Narrative
368
damnatio memoriae
389
Three Cups and a Funeral in Beowulf
407

A Recension of Bonifaces Letter to Eadburg about
194
uir undecumque doctissimus
215
Quid Hinieldus cum Christo?
237
Beowulf in the House of Dickens
421
Index of Manuscripts
441
Index of Glosses to Chapter 1
459

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