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Contributions to the forty-eighth volume of Anglo-Saxon England focus on aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history across a period from the sixth to the twelfth century. This volume begins with an examination of Beowulf fitt II and the Andreas-poet, and ends with a study of St Dunstan and the heavenly choirs of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, as related in Goscelin's Historia translationis S. Augustini. Also included are articles on Leofric of Exeter and liturgical performance as pastoral care, legal culture under Dena lage with reference to III Æthelred, an Agnus Dei penny of King Æthelred the Unready and self-seeking in The Metres of Boethius. Latin verse in an Old English medical codex is examined with reference to Bald's Colophon, the figure of Beow is explored in a Scandinavian context and a new solution is provided for Exeter Riddle 55. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.

Among topics covered in this volume, two important authorship questions are settled; the discovery of a major Northumbrian settlement is reported; and the conceptions of Old English literature which have prevailed during the last three hundred years are paraded for critical inspection. The usual comprehensive bibliography rounds off the book.

The contributions to the forty-sixth volume of Anglo-Saxon England focus on various aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history across a period from the seventh to the eleventh century, from the role of music in Anglo-Saxon England to the Old English language and the challenges of lexicography. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.

The forty-fifth volume of Anglo-Saxon England focusses on Anglo-Saxon culture and history from the seventh to the seventeenth century, from the recent discovery of the 'Trumpington Cross' to a study of a seventeenth-century Anglo-Saxon Grammar. This volume also addresses the Burghal Hidage and the iconography of the Fuller Brooch.

The forty-fourth volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains three contributions on eighth-century religious culture in Northumbria, two discussions of Old English prose, and two of Old English poetry. This volume also addresses penance in the eleventh century, Edward the Confessor, and military organization throughout the period.

The forty-third volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains three contributions on Latin learning in the early part of the period and three articles on Old English poetry. Old English prose and its audience are also discussed, as are the Leofric Missal and differing representations of King Cnut.

The forty-second volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains articles on a 'new' Anglo-Latin poet, the activities of an exiled Norman archbishop of Canterbury, palaeography, philology, Old English language and literature, tenth-century diplomacy, and numismatics. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.

The forty-first volume of Anglo-Saxon England ranges from the seventh century to the eleventh, from Old English and Insular Latin literature to monetary history, ecclesiastical history, manuscript studies, sculpture, and cookery. Collectively, the articles represent the vitality of Anglo-Saxon studies worldwide. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.

The fortieth volume of Anglo-Saxon England reflects the vitality of work in this field across a wide range of disciplines. Included is a second series of addenda and corrigenda to Helmut Gneuss's indispensable handlist of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, and the annual bibliography of publications for the year 2010.

Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture and which promotes the more unusual interests. Articles in volume 35 include: Virgil the Grammarian and Bede: a preliminary study; Bibliography for 2005.

Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Articles in volume 39 include: 'Why is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle about kings?' by Nicholas Brooks and 'The Homiliary of Angers in tenth-century England' by Winfried Rudolf.

Anglo-Saxon England was the first publication to consistently embrace all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Articles in volume 38 include: Understanding Numbers in MS London, British Library Harley by Daniel Anlezark and Tudor Antiquaries and the Vita AEdwardi Regis by Henry Summerso.

Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Articles in volume 37 include: The virtues of rhetoric: Alcuin's Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus; King Edgar's charter for Pershore (972); Lost voices from Anglo-Saxon Lichfield.

Of outstanding importance in this volume is the first ever attempt to list all the surviving manuscripts that were written or owned in Anglo-Saxon England. A study assembles the widely scattered evidence for slave raiding and slave trading in England. Other contributions examine Latin poems, Beowulf and The Seafarer.

The authors of this volume tackle a wide range of questions in Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Contributions are on subjects as diverse as the Anglo-Saxon settlement, early Northumbrian history, the 'weapon' vocabulary of Beowulf, world history in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a woman's stock of clothes in the mid-tenth century and vernacular preaching before AElfric.

This volume offers insights into the Anglo-Saxons' literature, their study of Latin, their documents, art and artefacts and their agricultural practices, among others.

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.

Manuscripts are the form of evidence most studied in this volume. Among others, the likely seventh- and eighth-century English ownership of a fifth-century copy of a Hieronymian commentary is reconstructed, and an edition and full discussion of the eighth-century Anglian collection of royal genealogies and regnal lists advance our understanding of this difficult material.

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.

Ideas about the whole sweep of Anglo-Saxon history and in particular the importance of combining skills from many disciplines are at the centre of this volume. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

In 2002, a fragmentary homiliary containing exegetical homilies for the Sundays after Pentecost, came to light. The manuscript apparently dates from the mid-eleventh century, and this volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains a printed edition of this interesting text. The usual comprehensive bibliography is also provided.

This volume throws light on the literacy of Anglo-Saxon England, from the writs which were used as the instruments of government from the eleventh century onwards, to the normative texts, to the runes stamped on an Anglo-Saxon coin, to the pseudorunes which deliver the coded message of a man to his lover in a well-known Old English poem.

In this volume, one of the most important manuscripts surviving from pre-Conquest England receives penetrating analysis by several scholars. The 'Junius Manuscript' is evaluated from a number of intersecting perspectives, including codicology, decoration, script and punctuation; the confluence of these permits a fresh and convincing dating of this crucially important witness to Old English poetry.

This volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface, in which it is shown that the unusually formulaic nature of Boniface's letters is best understood as a reflex of the saint's familiarity with vernacular composition. The usual comprehensive bibliography rounds off the book, whilst a full index of volumes 26-30 is provided.

The Anglo-Saxons' sense of the past, their colour vocabulary and their ties of kinship are among the topics considered in this third volume. Evidence for contemporary ecclesiastical architecture is extracted from an Anglo-Latin poem and evidence for the post-Conquest Anglo-Saxon emigration to Byzantium from an Icelandic saga.

The editorial policy of Anglo-Saxon England has been to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. This approach is pursued in exemplary fashion by many of the essays in this volume. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

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.

This volume of Anglo-Saxon England provides fresh perspectives on familiar subjects, across all disciplines - whether literary, philological, legal, historical or palaeographical - in the field. Two Latin texts from the circle of Archbishop Wulfstan are published here in full for the first time. The volume also contains two pioneering essays in the histoire des mentalites.

Material evidence brought to light in this book includes a niello disc from Limpsfield Grange (Surrey) and two fragments of a composite Old English homily discovered in Westminster Abbey. Many previously accepted scholarly positions are reassessed and challenged. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book, along with an index.