Anglo-Saxon England

Bruce Mitchell has worked as a shop-assistant, labourer, musician, scriptwriter, waiter, consultant and corporate director. His business career took him across the world, with long-term stays in South East Asia and New Zealand. He lives in Bowral, in the Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia.

The Anglo-Saxons' sense of the past, their colour vocabulary and their ties of kinship are among the topics considered in this third volume.

List of figures; Preface; 1. Cross-Channel language ties R. Derolez; 2. Old English colour classification: where do matters stand? Nigel F. Barley; 3. Germanic and Roman antiquity and the sense of the past in Anglo-Saxon England Michael Hunter; 4. The influence of the catechetical narratio on Old English and some other medieval literature Virginia Day; 5. The concept of the hall in Old English poetry Kathryn Hume; 6. Second thoughts on the interpretation of The Seafarer John C. Pope; 7. God's presence through grace as the theme of Cynewulf's Christ II and the relationship of this theme to Christ I and Christ III Colin Chase; 8. King Alfred's æstel Bruce Harbert; 9. Laurence Nowell's transcript of BM Cotton Otho B. xi Raymond J. S. Grant; 10. Æthelwold's translation of the Regula Sancti Benedicti and its Latin exemplar Mechthild Gretsch; 11. Social idealism in Ælfric's Colloquy Earl R. Anderson; 12. The architectural interest of Æthelwulf's De Abbatibus H. M. Taylor; 13. Towards a revision of the internal chronology of the coinages of Edward the Elder and Plegmund Michael Dolley; 14. The Icelandic saga of Edward the Confessor: its version of the Anglo-Saxon emigration to Byzantium Christine Fell; 15. Kinship in Anglo-Saxon England H. R. Loyn; 16. Anglo-Saxon charters: the work of the last twenty years Nicholas Brooks; 17. Bibliography for 1973 Martin Biddle, Alan Brown, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton and Peter Hunter Blair.