Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 32

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  • Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 32 Book Detail

  • Author : Michael Lapidge
  • Release Date : 2004-07-05
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 436
  • ISBN 13 : 9780521813440
  • File Size : 87,87 MB

Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 32 by Michael Lapidge PDF Summary

Book Description: Throughout the centuries of its existence, Anglo-Saxon society was highly, if not widely, literate: it was a society the functioning of which depended very largely on the written word. All the essays in this volume throw light on the literacy of Anglo-Saxon England, from the writs which were used as the instruments of government from the eleventh century onwards, to the normative texts which regulated the lives of Benedictine monks and nuns, to the runes stamped on an Anglo-Saxon coin, to the pseudorunes which deliver the coded message of a man to his lover in a well-known Old English poem, to the mysterious writing on an amulet which was apparently worn by a religious for a personal protection from the devil. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

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