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Contributions to the forty-ninth volume of Anglo-Saxon England focus on aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history across a period from the sixth to the thirteenth century. This volume begins with a Record of the nineteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, and ends with examination of Slave resistance in early Medieval England. Be wifmannes beweddunge is used to discuss the Anglo-Saxon betrothal and wedding process, and the gradual Christianisation of wedding rites throughout the period. Two companion articles re-evaluate commonly held beliefs about elite diets, using isotopic evidence to counter previous assumptions about the feorm or 'food rent' sent by free peasants to royal households. Also included are an examination of a recently discovered fragment of the abridged version of Cassiodorus's Expositio psalmorum, a reassessment of the importance of bookland in understanding the period, and an investigation into conflicting East Anglican episcopal chronology, with regard to Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica.

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Author:   Rosalind Love (University of Cambridge) ,  Simon Keynes (University of Cambridge) ,  Rory Naismith (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781009408899

ISBN 10:   1009408895
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   27 July 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; 1. Record of the nineteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists at the University of New Mexico, 29 July–2 August 2019 Timothy Graham; 2. Bede, bishops and Bisi of East Anglia: questions of chronology and Episcopal consecration in the Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum Calum Platts; 3. A further fragment of the abridged version of Cassiodorus's Commentary on the Psalms Helen Imhoff; 4. Be wifmannes beweddunge: betrothals and weddings in Anglo-Saxon England Samuel Cardwell; 5. Food and power in early Medieval England: rethinking Feorm Tom Lambert and Sam Leggett; 6. Food and power in early Medieval England: a lack of (isotopic) enrichment Sam Leggett and Tom Lambert; 7. The limits of Bookland John Blair; 8. Slave resistance in early Medieval England Janel M. Fontaine.

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