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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of Contents1. Record of the sixteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Dublin, 29 July-2 August 2013 Susan Irvine; 2. Isidore's Etymologiae at the school of Canterbury David Porter; 3. Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, CLM 6298: a new witness of the biblical commentaries from the Canterbury school Evina Steinova; 4. Rewriting the ecclesiastical landscape of early medieval Northumbria in the Lives of Cuthbert Joey McMullen; 5. Old English poetic diction not in Old English verse or prose and the curious case of Aldhelm's five athletes Mark Griffiths; 6. Reading, writing, and resurrection: Cynewulf's runes as a figure of the body Jill Clements; 7. Constructing the monstrous body in Beowulf Megan Cavell; 8. The sevenfold-fivefold-threefold litany of the saints in the Leofric Missal and beyond Robin Norris; 9. The audience for Old English texts: Ælfric, rhetoric and the 'edification of the simple' Helen Gittos; 10. National-ethnic narratives in eleventh-century literary representations of Cnut Jacob Hobson; 11. Kings and books in Anglo-Saxon England David Pratt.
