Cultural Connections between the Continent and Early Medieval England
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Anglo-Saxons
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Early Middle Ages
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Intellectual Exchanges
Legal Ideas
Manuscripts
Military Confrontations
Missionary Activities
Old English
Old Germanic Languages
Political Contacts
Runic Writing
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- ISBN 9781843847526
- Weight: 666g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2025
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Essays exploring the literary, material, scholarly and linguistic ties between the Continent and early medieval England.
"Anglo-Saxons were tied to the Continent in many ways", Rolf H. Bremmer Jr once observed. Throughout the early Middle Ages, a crucial phase for Anglo-Continental contact, cultural connections between the English and their neighbours across the North Sea developed in a number of forms, from missionary activities to political contacts, intellectual exchanges and military confrontations, with people, books, texts, artefacts and ideas travelling back and forth. The language and culture of the Anglo-Saxons became once again part of the scholarly exchange between England and the Continent during the early modern period, when philologists from either side of the North Sea laboured on the recovery of Old English and made new connections between Old English, the other Old Germanic languages, and more distant tongues.
This volume investigates these dynamic interactions between Anglo-Saxons and the Continent. Contributors break new ground in shared traditions in runic writing, legal ideas in England and Frisia, moments of transcultural and translingual contact, the influence of continental texts in early medieval England, the manuscripts which provide unique glimpses of the dissemination of texts and ideas, and early modern attempts to apply Old English to novel purposes. They thus form an appropriate tribute to the inspirational scholarship of Rolf H. Bremmer Jr in the field of Old English philology.
THIJS PORCK is senior lecturer of Medieval English at Leiden University. KEES DEKKER is senior lecturer in Older English Language and Culture at the University of Groningen. LÁSZLÓ SÁNDOR CHARDONNENS is senior lecturer of English Philology at Radboud University. Andrew Rabin is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Louisville. DAVID F. JOHNSON is Professor of English at Florida State University, Tallahassee. Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester where she was previously Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. JOHN HINES is Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University. KEES DEKKER is senior lecturer in Older English Language and Culture at the University of Groningen. LÁSZLÓ SÁNDOR CHARDONNENS is senior lecturer of English Philology at Radboud University. RICHARD NORTH teaches Old and Middle English in UCL, where he has also taught Old Norse. He has published widely on all three literatures, but with a focus on Beowulf, particularly in The Origins of Beowulf: From Vergil to Wiglaf (Oxford, 2006). THIJS PORCK is senior lecturer of Medieval English at Leiden University.
