Anglo-Saxon England
Lapidge, Michael / Clemoes, Peter / Keynes, Simon
Four very different kinds of Anglo-Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume traditions, learned and oral, about the settlement of the country, study of foreign-language grammar, interest in exotic jewels as reflections of the glory of God, and (surprisingly, no doubt, to some) a mainly rational attitude to medicine. Publication of no less than three recent discoveries augments our corpus of manuscript evidence. The nature of Old English poe...