Anglo-Saxon England Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 50 (Hardcover)

The fiftieth volume of Anglo-Saxon England ranges from the seventh century - with studies of Archbishop Theodore s computus the creation of English law-writing and Aldhelm s Irish influences - into modernity with new accounts of John Leland s De uiris illustribus and of iron as a metaphor for Old English verse in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Several new discoveries also feature including fragments of an Old English-glossed psalter three Agnus Dei pennies a proposed solution to the Wife s Lament and the likely site of the urbs Giudi described by Bede. Readers will encounter Eadgifu a woman who governed Kent; the names of English clerics; the waning land of the kingdom of the Hwicce; the many uses and meanings of bells; and runes in the Vineyard of the Lord. Also included is an account of the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England s 2021 virtual conference and an essay surveying current scholarship on Archbishop Wulfstan II of York commissioned to mark the millennium of his death. An index of the contents of volumes 1-50 marks the reaching of a different milestone. An abstract precedes each article. The fiftieth volume of Anglo-Saxon England ranges from the seventh century - with studies of Archbishop Theodore s computus the creation of English law-writing and Aldhelm s Irish influences - into modernity with new accounts of John Leland s De uiris illustribus and of iron as a metaphor for Old English verse in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Several new discoveries also feature including fragments of an Old English-glossed psalter three Agnus Dei pennies a proposed solution to the Wife s Lament and the likely site of the urbs Giudi described by Bede. Readers will encounter Eadgifu a woman who governed Kent; the names of English clerics; the waning land of the kingdom of the Hwicce; the many uses and meanings of bells; and runes in the Vineyard of the Lord. Also included is an account of the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England s 2021 virtual conference and an essay surveying current scholarship on Archbishop Wulfstan II of York commissioned to mark the millennium of his death. An index of the contents of volumes 1-50 marks the reaching of a different milestone. An abstract precedes each article.