Research Catalog

Title

Britons and Anglo-Saxons in the early Middle Ages / [edited by] David N. Dumville.

Publication

Brookfield, Vt. : Variorum, ©1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

Dumville, D. N.

Description

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Collected studies series ; CS379

Uniform Title

Collected studies ; CS379.

Subject

• To 1066
• Anglo-Saxons
• Britons
• Civilization
• Angelsaksen
• Great Britain > Civilization > To 1066
• Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The End of Celtic Britain -- I. Gildas and Maelgwn: problems of dating -- II. The chronology of De Excidio Britanniae, Book I -- III. The origins of Northumbria: some aspects of the British background -- Heroic Poetry and the Historian -- IV. Early Welsh poetry: problems of historicity -- V. Palaeographical considerations in the dating of early Welsh verse -- VI. 'Beowulf' and the Celtic world: the uses of evidence -- VII. Beowulf come lately. Some notes on the palaeography of the Nowell Codex -- Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms -- VIII. The West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List and the chronology of early Wessex -- IX. Essex, Middle Anglia, and the expansion of Mercia in the south-east Midlands -- X. Textual archaeology and Northumbrian history subsequent to Bede -- Brittany and its Neighbours -- XI. On the dating of the early Breton lawcodes -- XII. Ekiurid's Celtica lingua: an ethnological difficulty in Waltharius -- Scribes and Books: Anglo-British Interaction -- XIII. Late-seventh- or eighth-century evidence for the British transmission of Pelagius -- XIV. The English element in tenth-century Breton book-production -- Britons and English in the Viking-Age -- XV. The 'six' sons of Rhodri Mawr: a problem in Asser's Life of King Alfred -- XVI. Brittany and 'Armes Prydein Vawr'.

ISBN

• 0860783324
• 9780860783329

LCCN

92032605

OCLC

• ocm26633122
• 26633122
• SCSB-14027393

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library