England Before the Conquest: Studies in

Concerned with the basic materials of documents, literature, art, place-names, inscriptions, coins, buildings and archaeological finds, the twenty-two original studies that make up this 1971 text brought fresh understanding to various important topics in Anglo-Saxon scholarship. Native, continental, Scandinavian and Irish elements in five centuries of Anglo-Saxon history are represented. Each contribution exemplifies the methods and expertise of a modern specialisation, but collectively the essays show the value of a joint approach. They form a fitting tribute to a scholar who has kept primary sources to the forefront in her own work and who has illuminated an exceptionally wide range of them.

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
List of abbreviations
The writings of
The letters of Pope Boniface V and the mission of Paulinus to Northumbria
Bede's text of Libellus Responsionum of Gregory the Great to Augustine of Canterbury
A background to St Boniface's mission
Evidence for contacts between the churches of the Irish and English from the Synod of Whitby to the Viking Age
The development of military obligations in eighth- and ninth-century England
ælfric and the Old English version of the Ely privilege
Towns in late Anglo-Saxon England: the evidence and some possible lines of enquiry
Regnum and sacerdotium in the early eleventh century Dorothy
Scandinavian settlement in the territory of the Five Boroughs: the place-name evidence in part III, the Grimston-hybrids
How long did the Scandinavian language survive in England
Personal names on the coinage of Edgar
The narrative mode of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle before the Conquest
The classic additions in the Old English Orosius
The orientation system in the Old English Orosius
The ethic of war in old English
The use in Beowulf of earlier heroic verse
Cynewulf's image of the Ascension
The 'Winchester School' before St æthelwold
The handwriting of Archbishop Wulfstan
The nummular brooch from Sulgrave
Repton reconsidered: a study in structural criticism
Archaeology and the beginnings of English society
Index
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England Before the Conquest: Studies in Primary Sources Presented to Dorothy Whitelock

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