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Product Description: A complete paperback set of Anglo-Saxon England, the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and promotes the more unusual interests - in music, medicine and education...read more
By Peter Clemoes (editor)

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9780521413800 | Cambridge Univ Pr/Journal Dept, December 1, 1991, cover price $224.99
9780521388818 | Cambridge Univ Pr/Journal Dept, May 1, 1990, cover price $88.00 | also contains New York Sports Trivia
9780521365710 | Cambridge Univ Pr/Journal Dept, May 1, 1989, cover price $109.99 | also contains The Storms of War: Library Edition | About this edition: This volume explores many fundamental questions regarding Anglo-Saxon history.
9780521332026 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 17, 1986, cover price $224.99 | About this edition: 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 a mainly rational attitude to medicine.
9780521332033 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 17, 1986, cover price $224.99
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9780521712927 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 17, 2008, cover price $2029.99 | About this edition: A complete paperback set of Anglo-Saxon England, the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and promotes the more unusual interests - in music, medicine and education.
9780521038423 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 31, 2007), cover price $74.99 | About this edition: This volume makes important contributions to our stock of primary manuscript evidence: it recovers parts of six previously unrecorded charters and analyses two sets of fragments, each unique in its own way - two leaves of Old Testament text written in Mercia or Canterbury early in the ninth century and six leaves of a missal written at Worcester in the mid-eleventh century.
9780521038379 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 15, 2007), cover price $74.99 | About this edition: Among the diverse topics covered in this volume is a pioneer account of a unique group of Anglo-Saxon embroideries preserved on the continent and the publication of a previously unknown charter.

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Product Description: The contents of this first volume typify the range of interests that will be covered throughout the series. The topics treated include the first two centuries of Christianity in East Anglia; geographical knowledge in King Alfred's court; the part played by Bishop 'thelwold's school at Winchester in the period of tenth-century monastic reform in standardizing the vernacular and in studying and composing Latin poetry; allegory in Old English literature; the place of origin of the Book of Kells; the source of a fourteenth-century Icelandic saga writer's picture of Edward the Confessor; the principles of the modern study of pre-Conquest architecture; and the contemporary state of our knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon house...read more
By Martin Biddle (editor), Julian Brown (editor), Peter Clemoes (editor), Helmut Gneuss (editor) and Stanley Greenfield (editor)

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9780521038355 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 28, 2008), cover price $74.99 | About this edition: The contents of this first volume typify the range of interests that will be covered throughout the series.

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Product Description: The materials studied in this volume extend from small pieces of evidence made to reveal Frankish influence on the beginnings of Bath Abbey to a post-Conquest gradual recognized as unique testimony to the pre-Conquest music of Christ Church, Canterbury...read more
By Martin Biddle (editor), Julian Brown (editor), Peter Clemoes (editor), Helmut Gneuss (editor) and Stanley Greenfield (editor)

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9780521038614 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 28, 2008), cover price $74.99 | About this edition: The materials studied in this volume extend from small pieces of evidence made to reveal Frankish influence on the beginnings of Bath Abbey to a post-Conquest gradual recognized as unique testimony to the pre-Conquest music of Christ Church, Canterbury.

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By Peter Clemoes (editor), Simon Keynes (editor) and Michael Lapidge (editor)

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9780521038416 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 31, 2007), cover price $74.99

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Product Description: What scientific observations is Bede likely to have brought to bear on the Easter controversy? What interest did the Anglo-Saxons take in precious stones and what did they know about them? Are heroic values rejected in one of Cynewulf's poems? What was Anglo-Saxon carpentry like? These are among the questions taken up in this volume...read more
By Martin Biddle (editor), Julian Brown (editor), Peter Clemoes (editor), Helmut Gneuss (editor) and Stanley Greenfield (editor)

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9780521038645 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 2007), cover price $74.99 | About this edition: What scientific observations is Bede likely to have brought to bear on the Easter controversy?

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Product Description: This volume mostly deals with manuscripts, directly or indirectly. Of outstanding importance is the first ever attempt to list all the surviving manuscripts that were written or owned in Anglo-Saxon England. There are studies of particular manuscripts: three Latin poems are added to the very few known to have been composed in the time of Athelstan the first; the damaged page in the Exeter Book of Old English poetry is made to yield a better text than before; the distinctive sense of scholarship and literary style that went into a late Old English editing of one of King Alfred's prose works is revealed...read more
By Peter Clemoes (editor)

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9780521038669 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 2007), cover price $74.99 | About this edition: This volume mostly deals with manuscripts, directly or indirectly.

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By Martin Biddle (editor), Julian Brown (editor), Peter Clemoes (editor), Helmut Gneuss (editor) and Stanley Greenfield (editor)

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9780521038652 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 15, 2007), cover price $74.99

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Product Description: Areas of study pursued in this book include a revealing grammatical document from eighth-century Northumbria; renewed excavations at Sutton Hoo are reported; the existence of an unnoticed late Old English prose version of parts of Gregory's Dialogues is pointed out...read more
By Peter Clemoes (editor)

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9780521038393 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 15, 2007), cover price $74.99 | About this edition: Areas of study pursued in this book include a revealing grammatical document from eighth-century Northumbria; renewed excavations at Sutton Hoo are reported; the existence of an unnoticed late Old English prose version of parts of Gregory's Dialogues is pointed out.

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By Peter Clemoes (editor), Simon Keynes (editor) and Michael Lapidge (editor)

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9780521038348 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 15, 2007), cover price $74.99

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Product Description: This volume offers fundamental evidence and discussion illuminating a wide range of important subjects: possible influence of Cicero on Bede's attitude to rhetoric; the probability that Theodore and Hadrian brought a glossary from Italy to England; the traditional concept of the narrator in Old English poetry; the nationality of the author of the Old English poem Genesis B; the conceptions of history controlling the Old English Orosius; the establishment of Square minuscule as the standard English script of the tenth century; criteria for distinguishing between Anglo-Saxon script written in England and script written by Anglo-Saxons on the continent; the grounds for claiming that certain surviving pre-Conquest manuscripts were once at Glastonbury; the extent of the circulation of Prudentius's Psychomachia in Anglo-Saxon England; the regional distribution of names of different origins among the moneyers of the Anglo-Danish era...read more
By Peter Clemoes (editor)

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9780521038409 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 15, 2007), cover price $74.99 | About this edition: This volume offers fundamental evidence and discussion illuminating a wide range of important subjects: possible influence of Cicero on Bede's attitude to rhetoric; the probability that Theodore and Hadrian brought a glossary from Italy to England; the traditional concept of the narrator in Old English poetry; the nationality of the author of the Old English poem Genesis B; the conceptions of history controlling the Old English Orosius; the establishment of Square minuscule as the standard English script of the tenth century; criteria for distinguishing between Anglo-Saxon script written in England and script written by Anglo-Saxons on the continent; the grounds for claiming that certain surviving pre-Conquest manuscripts were once at Glastonbury; the extent of the circulation of Prudentius's Psychomachia in Anglo-Saxon England; the regional distribution of names of different origins among the moneyers of the Anglo-Danish era.

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By Martin Biddle (editor), Julian Brown (editor), Peter Clemoes (editor), Helmut Gneuss (editor) and Stanley Greenfield (editor)

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9780521038638 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 15, 2007), cover price $74.99

By Peter Clemoes (editor)

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9780521038386 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 15, 2007), cover price $74.99

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Product Description: Several unusual fields of study are extensively explored in this volume: a distinctive politico-religious cult, penitentials, inscriptions, the Sutton Hoo whetstone and medical knowledge; while treatments of more 'standard' subjects like late Anglo-Saxon law, King Alfred's Boethius and Beowulf, lead to unusual conclusions...read more
By Peter Clemoes (editor)

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9780521038331 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 15, 2007), cover price $74.99 | About this edition: Several unusual fields of study are extensively explored in this volume: a distinctive politico-religious cult, penitentials, inscriptions, the Sutton Hoo whetstone and medical knowledge; while treatments of more 'standard' subjects like late Anglo-Saxon law, King Alfred's Boethius and Beowulf, lead to unusual conclusions.

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Product Description: Peter Clemoes brings a lifetime's close study of Anglo-Saxon texts to this fresh appreciation of Old English poetry, with a radically new interpretation that relates the poetry to the entire Anglo-Saxon way of thinking, and to the structures of its society...read more

Hardcover:

9780521307116 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $179.99 | About this edition: Peter Clemoes brings a lifetime's close study of Anglo-Saxon texts to this fresh appreciation of Old English poetry, with a radically new interpretation that relates the poetry to the entire Anglo-Saxon way of thinking, and to the structures of its society.

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9780521035163 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 14, 2006), cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Peter Clemoes brings a lifetime's close study of Anglo-Saxon texts to this fresh appreciation of Old English poetry, with a radically new interpretation that relates the poetry to the entire Anglo-Saxon way of thinking, and to the structures of its society.

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Product Description: This is a new edition of the forty Old English homilies which make up the first of the two series of Catholic Homilies written by Aelfric of Eynsham c. 990. It is a major work of Anglo-Saxon prose, written by one of the foremost scholars of his time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Peter Clemoes (editor)

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9780197224182 | Early English Text Society, January 1, 1998, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: This is a new edition of the forty Old English homilies which make up the first of the two series of Catholic Homilies written by Aelfric of Eynsham c.

Product Description: Several unusual fields of study are extensively explored in this volume: a distinctive politico-religious cult, penitentials, inscriptions, the Sutton Hoo whetstone and medical knowledge; while treatments of more 'standard' subjects like late Anglo-Saxon law, King Alfred's Boethius and Beowulf, lead to unusual conclusions...read more
By Peter Clemoes (editor)

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9780521249188 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1983, cover price $54.50 | also contains Domestic Violence and Protecting Children: New Thinking and Approaches | About this edition: Several unusual fields of study are extensively explored in this volume: a distinctive politico-religious cult, penitentials, inscriptions, the Sutton Hoo whetstone and medical knowledge; while treatments of more 'standard' subjects like late Anglo-Saxon law, King Alfred's Boethius and Beowulf, lead to unusual conclusions.

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