Oxford: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd, 2018. — 230 p. — (British Archaeological Reports International Series 641). This book presents the author's digitization of Pirie's substantial yet flawed corpus of 9th-century Northumbrian 'stycas'. This database, enhanced by data from elsewhere, is compared by location with the artefactual database known as VASLE (created at...
Boydell Press, 2002. — 256 p. — (Anglo-Saxon Studies 1). An examination of the liturgical rituals of the high festivals of the year and their reflection in the secular church. This volume presents an examination of the liturgical rituals of the high festivals from Christmas to Ascension in late Anglo-Saxon England, particularly in the secular church. It expands the current...
Tempe, Arizona: ACMRS, 2017. — 287 p.— (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies 519; Essays in Anglo-Saxon studies 8). Table of contents: Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England - Carole Biggam, Carole Hough, and Daria Izdebska Part 1: The Historical Thesaurus of English Loss,...
Yale University Press, 2017. — xiii, 244 p., ills. — (The Yale English Monarchs Series). A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire. Historian Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of the most misunderstood of the Anglo-Saxon...
Tempe, Arizona: ACMRS, 2017. — 261 p. — (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies 509; Essays in Anglo-Saxon studies 7). Table of contents: Contents Abbreviations List of Plates List of Figures Introduction / Juliet Mullins, University College, Dublin Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England: A Sideways Glance / Michael Ryan, University College, Dublin Insular Agricultures: Comparisons,...
Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. — 598 p. — (Studies in Old English Literature 3). King Alfred the Great (r. 871–899) remains a key figure in English literary history. Although his reputation as a scholar who was personally responsible for the translation of a number of Latin works is no longer secure, the figure of the wise king nevertheless casts a long shadow over vernacular writing...
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2005. — 176 p. — (Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (TONIS)). Medieval Icelandic authors wrote a great deal on the subject of England and the English. This new work by Magnús Fjalldal is the first to provide an overview of what Icelandic medieval texts have to say about Anglo-Saxon England in respect to its language,...
BAR Publishing, 2010. — 144 p. — (BAR British Archaeological Reports British Series 522). King Æthelred II (978-1016), known as 'the Unready', is a relatively unknown English monarch. The exploration of Æthelred's reign in this volume complements a study undertaken by the author in an earlier book about the Scandinavian invasions of England during Æthelred's reign; a study...
The Boydell Press, 2022. — 314 p. — (Anglo-Saxon Studies 43). An exploration of how Æthelwold and those he influenced deployed the promotion of saints to implement religious reform. Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester and his associates were some of the most radical monastic reformers in tenth-century Europe. In two generations, they took over most of the powerful churches in the...
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2011. — 359 p. — (Studies in the Early Middle Ages 9). This volume is about the book itself, as shaped and made by medieval scribes and as conditioned by the cultural understandings that were present in the world where those scribes lived. Questions relating to the provenance, compilation, script, function, and use — both medieval and modern — of...
Leuven, Paris and Bristol, CT: Peeters, 2019. — 333 p. — (Mediaevalia Groningana New Series 22). As broad in scope as the interests of its honoree, this volume brings together leading historians of early English and continental law to pay tribute to Lisi Oliver. The essays gathered here range from the earliest laws of the kings of Kent in the seventh century to the reception of...
D. S. Brewer, 2019. — 376 p. — (Anglo-Saxon Studies 37). A thousand years and more ago, with Vikings ravaging the coastlines and the millennium drawing nigh, a monk named Ælfric embarked on studies that would make him the most erudite, prolific, and influential author writing in English before Chaucer. What drove Ælfric was no desire to leave his mark on history, however, but...
Berlin; Boston: de Gruyter, 2018. — 286 S. — (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, 105). This work studies the at times tense coexistence of polytheists and Christians in Anglo-Saxon England of the 7th century. It examines how, when, and under what conditions these different religious groups came to live together in the same kingdoms. Particular...
Boydell & Brewer, 1986. — 400 p. When it first came out in 1986, Gale Owen-Crocker's book was a milestone in costume studies, a foundation on which much work has subsequently been based. Nearly twenty years later, there is more to be said, and this updated edition is long overdue. An encyclopaedic study of English dress from the fifth to the eleventh centuries, it draws...
Manchester University Press, 2016. — x, 254 p. — (Manchester Medieval Sources). Archbishop Wulfstan of York (d. 1023) is among the most important legal and political thinkers of the early Middle Ages. A leading ecclesiastic, innovative legislator, and influential royal councilor, Wulfstan witnessed firsthand the violence and social unrest that culminated in the fall of the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2020. — 316 p. — (Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Center). This monograph examines Anglo-Saxon prayer outside of the communal liturgy. With a particular emphasis on its practical aspects, it considers how small groups of prayers were elaborated into complex programs for personal devotion, resulting in the forerunners of the Special Offices. With...
York Medieval Press, 2011. — 348 p. A study of the implications and practices of wills and will-making in Anglo-Saxon society, and of the varieties of inheritance strategies and commemorative arrangements adopted. A remarkable series of Anglo-Saxon wills have survived, spanning the period from the beginning of the ninth century to the years immediately following the Norman...
University of Edinburgh, 2007. — 303 p. This thesis is an examination and reassessment of the political situation in England c.939x46. The relationships between royal authority and the aristocracy in the former kingdoms of Mercia, Wessex, East Anglia and the Danelaw is the primary focus, however it also attempts to place such relations into the broader context of insular...
Oxford University Press, 1988. — 335 p. — (Oxford Medieval Texts). In 1969 the Clarendon Press published the new edition of Bede's classic history in Oxford Medieval Texts, edited by Bertram Colgrave and Sir Roger Mynors. Mynors's masterly text and textual introduction replaced much of Charles Plummer's great edition of 1896; but the historical notes did not attempt to match in...