Anglo - Saxon England 5. Contents:Preface1. Cuthswith, seventh-century abbess of Inkberrow, near Worcester, and the Würzburg manuscript of Jerome on Ecclesiastes Patrick Sims-Williams2. The Anglian collection of royal genealogies and regnal lists David N. Dumville3. The authenticating voice in Beowulf Stanley B. Greenfield4. The ideal of men dying with their lord in the Germania and in The Battle of Maldon Rosemary Woolf5. Ælfric's use of discourse in some saints' lives Ruth Waterhouse6. Caesarius of Arles and Old English literature Joseph B. Trahern Jr7. A supplement to Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon N. R. Ker8. The probable derivation of most of the illustrations in Junius II from an illustrated Old Saxon Genesis Barbara Raw9. The palaeography of the Parker manuscript of the Chronicle, laws and Sedulius, and historiography at Winchester in the late ninth and tenth centuries M. B. Parkes10. Some problems in interpreting Anglo-Saxon coinage Stewart Lyon11. Beginnings continued: a decade of studies of Old English prose Milton McC. Gatch12. Bibliography for 1975 Martin Biddle, Alan Brown, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton and Peter Hunter BlairIndex to volumes 1–5.

Contents: 1. Identifiable books from the pre-Conquest library of Malmesbury Abbey Rodney Thomson 2. Milred of Worcester's collection of Latin epigrams and its continental counterparts Patrick Sims-Williams 3. The prefix un- and the metrical grammar of Beowulf Calvin B. Kendall 4. Hrothgar's 'sermon' in Beowulf as parental wisdom Elaine Tuttle Hansen 5. Lexical evidence for the authorship of the prose psalms in the Paris Psalter Janet M. Bately 6. Byrhtferth of Ramsey and the early sections of the Historia Regum attributed to Symeon of Durham Michael Lapidge 7. Byrhtferth's Enchiridion and the computus in Oxford, St John's College Peter S. Baker 8. Princeps Merciorum gentis: the family, career and connections of Ælfhere, ealdorman of Mercia 956–83 A. Williams 9. The laws of Cnut and the history of Anglo-Saxon royal promises Pauline Stafford 10. Sprouston, Roxburghshire: an Anglo-Saxon settlement discovered by air reconnaissance J. K. S. St Joseph 11. Histories and surveys of Old English literature: a chronological review Daniel G. Calder 12. Bibliography for 1980 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton, C. R. E. Coutts and Simon Keynes Index to volumes 6–10. Cambridge University Press 1982, cm.15x23, pp.326, legatura editoriale cartonata, sopraccoperta figurata. Among topics covered in this volume, two important authorship questions are settled; the discovery of a major Northumbrian settlement is reported; the conceptions of Old English literature which have prevailed during the last three hundred years are paraded for critical inspection and substantial contributions are made to our knowledge of subjects as diverse as a monastic library of the first rank, eighth-century Latin poetic activity, metrical technique and literary convention in our greatest surviving vernacular poem; the family basis of political power in the tenth century; late Anglo-Saxon legal concepts; and scientific exposition in the early eleventh century. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book (with a separate section onomastic section). There is also an index to volumes 6 – 10, complementing the index found in volume 5.

--Margaret Gelling. Latin loan-words in Old English place-names. --Philip Rahtz, Donald Bullough. The parts of an Anglo-Saxon mill. --Michael Winterbottom. Aldhelm's prose style and its origins. --Vivien Law. The Latin and Old English glosses in the ars Tatuini. --John F. Vickrey. The narrative structure of Hengest's revenge in Beowulf. --Robert C. Rice. The penitential motif in Cynewulf's Fates of the Apostles and in his epilogues. --David Yerkes. The text of the Canterbury fragment of Werferth's translation of Gregory's Dialogues and its relation to the other manuscripts- -Eric E. Barker. Two lost documents of King Athelstan. --Robert Deshman . The Leofric Missal and tenth-century English art. --Stephanie Hollis. The thematic structure of the Sermo Lupi. --D. G. Scragg. Napier's ‘Wulfstan’ homily xxx: its sources, its relationship to the Vercelli Book and its style. --Thomas D. Hill. The æecerbot charm and its Christian user. --Christine Fell. English history and Norman legend in the Icelandic saga of Edward the Confessor. --Milton MCC. Gatch. Old English literature and the liturgy: problems and potential. --Sutton Hoo published: a review. Cambridge University Press 1977, cm.15x23, pp.IX,316, legatura editoriale cartonata, sopraccoperta figurata. Work in this volume offers insights into the Anglo-Saxons' literature, both Latin and vernacular, their study of Latin, their documents, art and artefacts, agricultural practices, their cognizance of Roman predecessors, and later Icelandic knowledge of them. The literary contributions include a major study of Aldhelm's Latin prose style, arguing against its supposed 'Irishness' and placing it firmly in the main tradition of rhetorical amplification coming through from ancient times. In the field of vernacular poetry a prevalent, but illogical, interpretation of a thematically significant obscurity in Beowulf is challenged, and Cynewulf's penitential concern is emphasized. The physical remains of the eighth-century watermill at Tamworth and a compiled survey of early medieval mill terminology are correlated. Old English place-names containing Latin loan words are reconsidered. The sources of a fourteenth-century Icelander's knowledge of late Anglo-Saxon history are further delineated in a third, concluding article on the Játvarthar saga. There is the usual bibliography of the previous year's studies in all branches of Anglo-Saxon.

,Translation by Sandra C. Malicote and A. Richard Hartman. New York Italica Press 2014 cm.14x21, pp.300, brossura,copertina figurata a colori This "chanson de geste" records the exploits of the young knight, Aiol, as he reclaims by word and deed his father’s and mother’s unjustly stolen heritage. He gains the love of a Saracen princess who converts when she is convinced, by his warrior prowess, of the truth of the Christian god. He then aids the French King Louis in ending a debilitating war led by rebellious vassals and (in an allusion to the Fourth Crusade) similarly helps Emperor Grasien, king of Venice, to end his own war against an enemy to the East. Aiol’s deeds ultimately bring justice to the kingdom of France. But the poem is far more than the tale itself. "Aiol," like many other crusading and romance epics, recreates both the Christian culture of the West and the Islamic culture of the Levant. Poets writing in medieval French created richly textured literary metaphors or fictions about both the Christian and Muslim world, and they were themselves well aware that even though they were treating historically-based materials, they were also fabricating fictions and fictive truths, tropes and figures as literary art. "Aiol’s" literary allusions and fictive representations suggest a sophistication on the part of the chanson’s authors, who wrote for courts that knew well and first-hand the Muslim world. By the time of "Aiol’s" composition there had long been fruitful cultural, trade — as well as military — interaction between the “two worlds.” Islamic scholars were respected in intellectual circles in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and translators briskly adapted works of Arabic science and medicine for the readers of Latin Europe. Around 80 Old French epics are known from surviving 13th-century manuscripts. These were preserved and passed down by the aristocratic families who had commissioned them and financed their preparation. These poems, often called genealogical epics, served a number of purposes, from entertainment at important courtly occasions, such as marriages and investitures, to edification and instruction in the vernacular of the courtly world. Excerpts of these “songs of deeds” or "chansons de geste" were also publicly sung after Sunday Mass for the entertainment and instruction of the ordinary people. The institutions of the monarchy, social class, marriage and the family are explored and developed in a poetic enterprise that gave life to what might otherwise have become an academic debate. Dialectical argument structures the entire work into a richly instructive, psychologically compelling and socially pleasing whole. Taken together with "Elye of Saint Gilles," "Aiol" has become known as the "geste de Saint Gilles," because both poems relate events in the lives of Julien of Saint Gilles, a literary epic hero first found in "Le Couronnement de Louis," and Julien’s son, Elye and Elye’s son, Aiol. The 2 poems are preserved in one richly decorated and ornamented manuscript, the BNFfr 25516. It has been proposed that this geste was presented at the Parisian court of Philip Augustus for the lavish, festive wedding in 1212 of Jeanne of Constantinople, countess of Flanders, to Ferrand of Portugal. Jeanne was the daughter of Count Baldwin of Flanders & Hainaut, who had, during the 4th Crusade, been elected emperor of the Latin Empire at Constantinople. Hartman & Malicote’s edition and translation is based on BNFfr 25516 and on the critical editions of W. Foerster & of J. Normand & G. Raynaud. As with their edition of "Elye of Saint Gilles," the editors have chosen simplicity and directness of approach. The translation remains faithful to the spirit and meaning of the Old French poem; creating a lively, interesting and engaging text that allows the reader to savor the rich intellectual and artistic context of the original. Derived from the original Italica Press dual-language edition, the English-only version is ideal for undergraduate use. It includes 11 illustrations, introduction, notes, sample of original French, select bibliography.