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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 30
Michael Lapidge (Ed.)
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Description for Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 30
hardcover. This volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface. Editor(s): Lapidge, Professor Michael; Godden, Malcolm; Keynes, Simon. Series: Anglo-Saxon England. Num Pages: 374 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 737.
The pre-eminence of Anglo-Saxon England in its field can be seen as a result of its encouragement of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. Thus this volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface, in which it is shown that the unusually formulaic nature of Boniface's letters is best understood as a reflex of the saint's familiarity with vernacular composition. A wide-ranging historical contextualization of The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle illuminates the way English readers of the later tenth century may have defined themselves in contradistinction to the monstrous unknown, and ... Read more
The pre-eminence of Anglo-Saxon England in its field can be seen as a result of its encouragement of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. Thus this volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface, in which it is shown that the unusually formulaic nature of Boniface's letters is best understood as a reflex of the saint's familiarity with vernacular composition. A wide-ranging historical contextualization of The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle illuminates the way English readers of the later tenth century may have defined themselves in contradistinction to the monstrous unknown, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
Series
Anglo-Saxon England
Number of Pages
374
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521802109
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V9780521802109
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