ISAS Essays in Anglo-Saxon Studies, Vol. 4

Anglo-Saxon Traces

Edited by Jane Roberts and Leslie Webster
2011 | 352 + xvi pp. | 27 + 8 color ills. | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in | 978-0-86698-453-9 | MRTS 405
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Found on the banks of the River Ivel, near Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, in 2001, and acquired by the British Museum in 2006, the unique gold mancus of Coenwulf of Mercia (796–821), minted at London, was adopted as an apt logo for the Anglo-Saxon Traces conference. The seventeen papers brought together in this collection under the same title share a strong evidential focus. Remembering and celebrating England’s Anglo-Saxon past, the contributors reflect on the sense of place, on buildings and their uses, and on the changing landscape. Archaeological evidence is deployed to illuminate aspects of settlement, trade, and health and disability. Historical evidence is brought to bear on issues of wealth, status, and religion, on the ownership of treasure, precious artefacts, manuscripts and the scripts in which they were written, on the written records, and on the less tangible remains that help shape and interpret the past.

Table of Contents

  • Julia Crick: Script and the Sense of the Past in Pre-Conquest England

  • Anton Scharer: Objects of Royal Representation in England and on the Continent

  • J. E. Davies: The Reverse Chronology of St. Alfege Church: A Suitable Monument for Anglo-Saxon England?

  • Nicole Guenther Discenza: Following in the Tracks of Bede: Science and Cosmology in the English Benedictine Reform

  • Carol FarrIrish: Pocket Gospels in Anglo-Saxon England

  • Sue Hirst: Mucking/East Tilbury: Lower Thames Meeting Place and Mart in the Early and Middle Saxon Periods?

  • Martyn Jessop and Hafed Walda: Gaining a Sense of Place in Anglo-Saxon England: Digital Projects

  • Catherine Karkov: Tracing the Anglo-Saxons in the Epistles of Paul: The Case of Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M.p.th.f.69

  • Christina Lee: Body Talks: Disease and Disability in Anglo-Saxon England

  • Juliet Mullins: Tracing the Tracks of Alcuin’s Vita Sancti Martini

  • Richard North: Revenue and Real Estate: Archbishop Wulfred and the Strange Case of Cynehelm

  • Jennifer O’Reilly: The Topography of Islands in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica

  • Phyllis Portnoy: What was Left at Marlow? New Considerations for the Place-name

  • Diarmuid Scully: Among the Ruins: Bede and his Sources on the Geography and Built Environment of Roman Britain

  • Tony Sharp and Bruce Watson: Saxo-Norman Southwark: A Review of the Archaeological and Historical Evidence

  • Emily V. Thornbury: Building with the Rubble of the Past: The Translator of the Old English Gospel of Nicodemus and his Flawed Source

  • Lisa M. C. Weston: Reforming the Landscape of Miracle at Barking Abbey