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Translation with notes of Aldhelm's famous treatise on virginity, and his less well-known letters.

Most of these litanies, taken from nearly fifty manuscripts written or owned in Anglo-Saxon England, have never previously been printed. The texts of the litanies provide an indispensable resource for scholars seeking to understand the spirituality of Anglo-Saxon England, to localise the manuscript in which the litanies are contained, and to trace the development and diffusion of eary medieval saints' cults. The volume is accompanied by compre...

Essays investigating the writings attributed to Columbanus, influential 0c founder of Luxeuil and Bobbio.

Gildas's 'De Excidio Britanniae' is the prime source of our knowledge of post-Roman Britain, but because it is such an isolated text, for which we have no obvious historical, geographical or cultural background, it is a work whichraises more questions than answers. Much effort has been expended on extracting historical facts from 'De excidio', but Gildas did not set out to write history as we understand it. The common approach of the contribut...

This volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface.

This volume is framed by articles that throw interesting light on the achievement and reputation of the greatest of Anglo-Saxon kings - Alfred. It opens with a wide-ranging study of the literary and archaeological evidence for the novel design of Alfred's ships, and closes with a survey of the development of the Alfredian legend from the tenth to the twentieth century.

In the present volume, the two essays that frame the book provide exciting insight into the mental world of the Anglo-Saxons.