For a list of contents, please see back flap.ĪNGLO-SAXON ENGLAND Edited by PETER CLEMOES MARTIN BIDDLEĬAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE LONDON There is also a bibliography which lists all books, articles and reviews published in the field during 1971, and which will be continued annually. The topics treated include the first two centuries of Christianity in East Anglia, geographical knowledge in King Alfred's court, the part played by Bishop iEthelwold's school at Winchester in the period of tenthcentury monastic reform in standardizing the vernacular and in studying and composing Latin poetry, allegory in Old English literature, the place of origin of the Book of Kells, the source of a fourteenth-century Icelandic saga writer's picture of Edward the Confessor, the principles of the present-day study of pre-Conquest architecture, and the present state of our knowledge of the AngloSaxon house. The contents of this first volume typify the range of interests that will be covered. PETER CLEMOES Elrington and Bostvorth Professor of Anglo-Saxon University of CambridgeĪ new annual publication drawing together the many strands that go to make up AngloSaxon studies.
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