Anglo-Saxon England 5 (Cambridge University Press, 1976)

Description

Several aspects of Anglo-Saxon England and several of its external relationships, incoming and outgoing, are investigated afresh in this volume.

Manuscripts are the form of evidence most studied: the likely seventh- and eighth-century English ownership of a fifth-century copy of a Hieronymian commentary is meticulously reconstructed; an edition and full discussion of the eighth-century Anglian collection of royal genealogies and regnal lists advance our understanding of this difficult material further than ever before.  The analysis of the Parker manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle throws revealing light on historiography at Winchester in Alfred’s time and during the following century.