Michael Lapidge

The Anglo-Saxon Library

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This invaluable study sets out the evidence for the nature and holdings of libraries in Anglo-Saxon England, from the sixth century to the eleventh. It is furnished with appendices which include editions of all surviving Anglo-Saxon book inventories, lists of those manuscripts exported from and imported into Anglo-Saxon England, and a catalogue of all classical and patristic works cited by Anglo-Saxon authors. The volume is concluded by a comprehensive index (combining the evidence of inventories, surviving manuscripts, and citations) of all classical and patristic writings known in England before 1100.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780199267224
• ISBN-10: 0199267227
• Artikelnr.: 21091476

Autorenporträt

Michael Lapidge was Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge (1991-8) and Notre Dame Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame (1999-2004); he is now Fellow Emeritus of Clare College, Cambridge. He has published widely on the literature of the Anglo-Saxons (both Old English and Latin). His most recent book was The Cult of St Swithun (OUP, 2003). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and Corresponding Fellow of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften and of the Accademia dei Lincei (Rome).

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* 2: Vanished Libraries of Classical Antiquity
* 3: Vanished Libraries of Anglo-Saxon England
* 4: Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (I): The Evidence of
Inventories
* 5: Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (II): The Evidence of
Manuscripts
* 6: Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (III): The Evidence of
Citations
* 7: Conclusions
* Appendix A: Six Inventories of Latin Books from Anglo-Saxon Libraries
(Excluding Biblical and Liturgical Books)
* Appendix B: Eighth-Century Inventories of Books from the Areas of the
Anglo-Saxon Mission in Germany
* Appendix C: Surviving Eighth-Century Manuscripts from the Area of the
Anglo-Saxon Mission in Germany
* Appendix D: Ninth-Century Manuscripts of Continental Origin Having
Pre-Conquest English Provenance
* Appendix E: Books Cited by the Principal Anglo-Saxon Authors
* Catalogue of Classical and Patristic Authors and Works Composed
before AD 700 and Known in Anglo-Saxon England
* Index of Manuscripts
* General Index