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Book SynopsisContributions to the forty-eighth volume of Anglo-Saxon England focus on various aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history across a period from the sixth to the twelfth century, from self-seeking in The Metres of Boethius, to Latin verse in Bald's Colophon. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.
Table of ContentsList of illustrations; List of abbreviations; 1. A close fitt: reading Beowulf fitt II with the Andreas-poet Daniel Thomas; 2. Seeking within the self in The Metres of Boethius Amy Faulkner; 3. Segn of the times: a new solution for Exeter Riddle 55 Sara Burdorff; 4. The artistry of Bald's colophon: Latin verse in an Old English medical codex Emily Kesling; 5. Beow in Scandinavia Tom Grant; 6. Cuthbert's relics and the origins of the diocese of Durham Neil Mcguigan; 7. Legal Culture under Dena lage: a study of III Æthelred Jake A. Stattel; 8. A further Agnus Dei penny of King Æthelred the Unready Simon Keynes, William A. Mackay and Rory Naismith; 9. An Anglo-Saxon bishop, his book and two battles: Leofric of Exeter and liturgical performance as pastoral care Robert Upchurch; 10. Echoes of the past: St Dunstan and the heavenly choirs of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, in Goscelin's Historia translationis S. Augustini Sophie Sawicka-Sykes.
