Anglo-Saxon England

This volume embraces the main aspects of Anglo-Saxon history and culture.

List of illustrations; 1. A preliminary list of manuscripts written or owned in England up to 1100 Helmut Gneuss; 2. Some Latin poems as evidence for the reign of Athelstan Michael Lapidge; 3. Slave raiding and slave trading in early England David Pelteret; 4. A 'Winchester School' wall-painting at Nether Wallop, Hampshire Richard Gem and Pamela Tudor-Craig; 5. The text of a damaged passage in the Exeter Book: Advent (Christ I) 18¿32 John C. Pope; 6. Auxiliary and verbal in Beowulf Alan Bliss; 7. Cain's monstrous progeny in Beowulf: part II, post-diluvian survival Ruth Mellinkoff; 8. Sylf, seasons, structure and genre in The Seafarer Stanley B. Greenfield; 9. The lexical and syntactic variants shared by two of the later manuscripts of King Alfred's translation of Gregory's Cura Pastoralis Dorothy M. Horgan; 10. The scholarly recovery of the significance of Anglo-Saxon records in prose and verse: a new bibliography E. G. Stanley; 11. Farming in the Anglo-Saxon landscape: an archaeologist's review P. J. Fowler; 12. Bibliography for 1979 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton and Simon Keynes.