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LITERATURE OF THE ANGLO-SAXONS

By: Anderson, George Kumler

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Russell & Russell: 1962

Seller ID: 2177

ISBN: 0846201097

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. ; 431 pages; Anderson provides in this single volume a descriptive history of the entire canon of Old English literature, from its beginnings to the Norman Conquest. The emphasis throughout is more on literature than on linguistics, and readings from Anglo-Saxon writings are quoted extensively, mainly in Anderson's own translations. The extensive notes at the end of each chapter constitute a critical review of published research up to the time of writing.
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NORROENA: THE HISTORY AND ROMANCE OF NORTHERN EUROPE: THE ARTHURIAN TALES The Greatest of Romances

By: Anderson, Rasmus B. (Ed. ) & Sir Thomas Mallory

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Norroena Society: 1907

Seller ID: 4983

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Corners bumped and worn. Slight fraying to spine ends. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Uncut edges, in original condition. Back inner hinge has been reinforced. ; Part of the "Norroena Embracing the History and Romance of Northern Europe" series. Memorial Edition. This is copy #310 of 500 printed in this edition. Remaining portion of title: "which recount the Noble and Valorous Deeds of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, compiled by Sir Thomas Malory, and edited from the Text of the 1634 edition by Ernest Rhys."
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ANGLO-SAXON PERCEPTIONS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD

By: Beckett, Katharine Scarfe

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 2003

Seller ID: 2381

ISBN: 0521829402

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England; 1 x 9 x 5.8 Inches; 284 pages; Katherine Scarfe Beckett is concerned with representations of the Islamic world in Anglo-Saxon England. Using a variety of literary, historical and archaeological evidence, Beckett argues that the first perceptions of Arabs, Ismaelites and Saracens were derived from Christian exegesis. These perceptions preconditioned Western expressions of hostility and superiority towards peoples of the Islamic world, and these received ideas prevailed over actual experience.
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A SHORT DICTIONARY OF ANGLO-SAXON POETRY In a Normalized Early West Saxon Orthography

By: Bessinger, Jess B

Price: $63.00

Publisher: 1960

Seller ID: 328

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Former owner's signature on fly-page. Book has moderate soiling and staining to boards. Spine is discoloured. Pages are clean of any other marks. ; This dictionary contains about 5000 entries, many of which include additional compounded forms. ; 87 pages
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THE GOLDEN AGE OF ANGLO-SAXON ART 966-1066

By: Blackhouse, Janet & D. H. Turner & Leslie Webster (Eds. )

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Indiana University Press: 1984

Seller ID: 14101

ISBN: 0253212685

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Light tanning to edges of pages. Foxing to top of textblock. ; 216 pages
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A COMPENDIOUS ANGLO-SAXON AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY,

By: Bosworth, Joseph

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Gibbings and Company, Limited: 1901

Seller ID: 317

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Corners are lightly bumped. Spine is lightly sunned. ; Top of pages are gilt. ; 278 pages
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DIPLOMI E CANCELLERIA DI RUGGERO II, Con Un Contributo Sui Diplomi Arabi

By: Brhl, Carlrichard; (Con Un Contributo Di Albrecht Noth)

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Palermo, 1983

Seller ID: 20624

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Inscribed by Bruhl in pen on ffep. Publisher's stamp to titlepage and rear wrap. Minor shelfwear. ; 271pp, 30pls. ; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; 271 pages
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THE INFINITIVE IN ANGLO-SAXON

By: Callaway Jr. , Morgan

Price: $115.00

Publisher: Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington: 1913

Seller ID: 442

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Minor water damage to boards else VG. Small edgewear to extremities. ; 339 pages; A detailed history of the Infinitive in Anglo-Saxon. This study is based upon a statistical reading of the whole of Anglo-Saxon literature with the exception of the glosses and of a few out-of-prints.
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THE TIBERIUS PSALTER Edited from British Museum MS Cotton Tiberius C VI

By: Campbell, A. P.

Price: $120.00

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press: 1974

Seller ID: 17427

ISBN: 0776648020

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Tiny faint stain to front wrap. Very slight shelfwear. Else fine. ; Psalter is in Old English and Medieval Latin. Apparatus is in English. Tiberius C vi is a "continuous interlinear gloss to a psalter of the Gallican version (ff. 31-129) ". ; Ottawa Mediaeval Texts and Studies; 302 pages
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THE DATING OF BEOWULF

By: Chase, Colin

Price: $23.00

Publisher: University of Toronto Press: 1997

Seller ID: 1913

ISBN: 0802078796

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very minor lifting of corners of wraps. ; Toronto Old English Studies; 0.69 x 9.78 x 6.78 Inches; 230 pages; The date of Beowulf, debated for almost a century, is a small question with large consequences. Does the poem provide us with an accurate if idealized view of early Germanic culture? Or is it rather a creature of nostalgia and imagination, born of the desire of a later age to create for itself a glorious past? If we cannot decide when, between the 5th and 11th centuries, the poem was composed, we cannot distinguish what elements in Beowulf belong properly to the history of material cult...
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ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND 1

By: Clemoes, Peter

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1972

Seller ID: 370

ISBN: 0521085578

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, and call numbers. Pocket has been removed. Withdrawn stamps on textblock as well. Call-numbers from spine have been removed leaving light damage to cloth. Bumping to bottom and top of spine. Former price on fly-page has been whited-out. Ask for pictures! ; Keywords from the Contents: pre-Viking Age church in East anglia; Old english Orosius and latin texts; Origin of Standard Old English and Aethelwold's school; Beowulf; Andreas; Exodus and treasure of Pharaoh; vision of paradise: Old English Phoenix; Jonah story: narrative technique in Old English homilies; ...
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ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND 12

By: Clemoes, Peter

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1986

Seller ID: 371

ISBN: 0521332028

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, and call numbers. Pocket has been removed. Withdrawn stamps on textblock as well. Call-numbers from spine have been removed leaving very light damage to cloth. Bumping to bottom and top of spine. Former price on fly-page has been whited-out. Ask for pictures! ; Four very different kinds of Anglo-Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume - traditions, learned and oral, about the settlement of the country, study of foreign-language grammar, interest in exotic jewels as reflections of the glory of God, and (surprisingly, no doubt, to some) a mainly rational at...
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DEI GRATIA IN ROYAL TITLES

By: Dabbs, Jack Autrey

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Mouton: 1971

Seller ID: 382

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Otherwise Fine. ; Study of the function of the "Divine Right" of Royal Titles in the historical development of Europe treated as an onomastic problem concentrating on the ritual or legalistic function. It begins with early concepts of the divine nature of kingship in pre-christian society and traces it to the present day. Looks at Roman Emperors from Coins; Merovingian French kings from coins; Early English Kings; Later English Kings from coins; Studies in European History; Vol. 22; 280 pages
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ANGLO-SAXON SAINTS AND SCHOLARS

By: Duckett, Eleanor Shipley

Price: $14.00

Publisher: MacMillan Company: 1947

Seller ID: 29366

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Rear hinge cracked but holding. Spine label browned. Former owner's name to inner cover. ; 488 pages
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VORDA VAELHSTD ENGLA AND SEAXNA. LEXICON ANGLOSAXONICUM Ex Poetarum Scriptorumque Prosaicorum Operibus Nec Non Lexicis Anglosaxonicis Collectum, Cum Synopsi Grammatica

By: Ettmllerus, L. (Ettmueller /ettmller /ettmuellerus)

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Editions Rodopi: 1968

Seller ID: 1013

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Scuffing to front board and general shelfwear and rubbing. ; Reprint of the 1851 edition. An Anglo-saxon/ old english Lexicon with Latin translation and commentary. ; 8vo
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WULFSTAN'S CANONS OF EDGAR

By: Fowler, Roger (Ed. )

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Early English Text Society: 1972

Seller ID: 989

ISBN: 0197222668

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Light edgewear to book. ; This is the first critical edition of a set of regulations for the secular clergy prepared by Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of York, in the early years of the eleventh century. ; Early English Text Society No. 266; 118 pages
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INTERSTICES Studies in Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A.G. Rigg

By: Green, Richard Firth & Linne R. Mooney

Price: $33.00

Publisher: University of Toronto Press Inc.: 2003

Seller ID: 200

ISBN: 0802087434

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Dustjacket has a small piece missing on front panel of Dustjacket. DJ shows minor wear. ; Breaking new ground in interdisciplinary scholarship of late medieval England, this collection of essays celebrates and addresses the work of renowned medieval scholar A. G. Rigg. George Rigg's interests span medieval Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English literature and philology; the contributors to this volume are an international group of colleagues, students, and friends of Rigg's, whose essays are as wide-ranging as Rigg's own interests. The contributions include: new editions of Middle English tex...
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A CRITICAL HISTORY OF OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE

By: Greenfield, Stanley B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York University Press: 1965

Seller ID: 2140

ISBN: 0814729509

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Minor shelfwear. Remnants of paper have adhered to bottom quarter of front board. ; Gotham Library; 372 pages
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A NEW CRITICAL HISTORY OF OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE With a Survey of the Anglo-Latin Background

By: Greenfield, Stanley B. & Daniel G. Calder; Lapidge, Michael

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York University Press: 1986

Seller ID: 2170

ISBN: 0814730027

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. ; 1.25 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 372 pages; Contains the first survey of the complete corpus of Anglo-Latin literature of the period, expanded analyses of Old English prose texts, and an extensive bibliography keyed to the footnotes, as well as revised chapters on Old English poetry.
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ALFRED THE GREAT

By: Helm, P.H.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Inc: 1995

Seller ID: 1589

ISBN: 1566196523

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Light rubbing to DJ. ; Alfred-- king of England from 871 to 899-- is the only ruler in English history called "the Great". Helm has written a fascinating biography about this legendary monarch, who recaptured the city of London from the Viking invaders.
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ISLANDICA: THE VINLAND SAGAS An Annual Relating to Iceland and the Fiske Icelandic Collection in Cornell University Library, Volume XXX : The Vinland Sagas

By: Hermannsson, Halldor

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Kraus Reprint Co. (Cornell Univ. Press): 1966

Seller ID: 2174

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Wraps have mild staining. ; The Vinland Sagas relate to the discovery of the American continent.
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BETWEEN LANGUAGES The Uncooperative Text in Early Welsh and Old English Nature Poetry

By: Higley, Sarah Lynn

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press: 1993

Seller ID: 1926

ISBN: 0271008768

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. DJ has very small chips to head of spine. ; 1.25 x 9.5 x 6.25 Inches; 314 pages; Early Welsh and Old English poetry are rarely spoken of together, but when they are, they have been described as like or different from one another. Sarah Higley breaks this cycle of mutual marginalization by examining what it means to read otherness or sameness into a text, concluding that too much of our reading is anglo-centric in its expectations and dictated by invisible ideological agendas. Examinations of the Llywarch Hen Corpus, for instance, have sought comparis...
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ICELANDIC CHURCH SAGA

By: Hood, John Charles Fulton

Price: $72.00

Publisher: Greenwood Press Reprint: 1981

Seller ID: 390

ISBN: 0313221944

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Adhesive traces of former sticker. ; Investigates the traces of early Christianity in the island and describes militant missionary efforts which led to the official adoption of Christianity in the year 1000. Further describes the development of the church under the Bishops of Skalholt and the stories of Iceland's two saints: St. Jon and Thorlak. Continues until the 19th Century. A ; 9.5 x 1 x 6.5 Inches; 241 pages
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OLD ENGLISH HOMILIES FROM MS BODLEY 343

By: Irvine, Susan (Ed. )

Price: $53.00

Publisher: Early English Text Society: 1993

Seller ID: 7989

ISBN: 0197223044

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very light rubbing to cloth else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 302; 320 pages; This edition presents several Old English texts from an Oxford manuscript. Unique to the manuscript, the works have not been edited since 1909 (when only a text and translation were supplied). Four of the texts are by the important late tenth-century writer Aelfric, the other three are anonymous. The edition offers detailed information about the manuscript, its language, and the background, sources, and analogues of the individual works.
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CYPRUS UNDER AN ENGLISH KING IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY The Adventures of Richard I. and the Crowning of His Queen in the Island

By: Jeffery, George

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Zeno: 1973

Seller ID: 620

ISBN: 0900834773

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

In endevouring to realize the circumstances of the first European occupation of Cyprus, la Vie Feodale de la Nobless of the period must be described in the light of modern research carried on by innumerable students of mediaeval history during the past half century : Viollet le Duc, Rey, Schlumberger and host of others. This sketch will fulfil its purpose if it serves as a reminder to those curious and interesting associations which link the beautiful island of Cyprus with England. To English-men, the heirs of the Anglo-Normans, such as associations of long ago, continued to some extent by the...
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ROMAN FORTIFICATIONS ON THE "SAXON SHORE"

By: Johnson, Stephen

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Her Majesty's Stationary Office: 1977

Seller ID: 18916

ISBN: 0116703407

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Minor creasing to spine. Light wear. Scholar's name to titlepage (Robert Brown). ; 32 pages
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GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH, 1640-1800

By: Jones, Ernest van Beurden

Price: $40.00

Publisher: University of California Press: 1944

Seller ID: 3458

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Former owner's name on ffep. Minor browning to wraps. Light discoloration to spine. Minor edgewear. ; Contents: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Reputation as a Historian, 1640-1700; Geoffrey of Monmouth's Reputation as a Historian, 1700-1800; Geoffrey of Monmouth and Ecclesiastical and Legal controversy, 1640-1700; Geoffrey of Monmouth, Literature, and the Historians of Literature, 1640-1800. ; University of California publications in English; 86 pages; Reprinted from University of California Publications in English, Volume 5, No. 3, pp 357-442
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PARADISE, DEATH AND DOOMSDAY IN ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE

By: Kabir, Ananya Jahanara; Keynes, Simon & Andy Orchard

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 2001

Seller ID: 1017

ISBN: 0521806003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Bumping to bottom of spine. Back corner is bumped. ; Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England; 9 x 0.5 x 6 Inches; 222 pages; How did the Anglo-Saxons conceptualise the interim between death and Doomsday? In Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature, Dr. Kabir presents the first investigation into the Anglo-Saxon belief in the "interim paradise" or paradise as a temporary abode for good souls following death and pending the final decisions of Doomsday. She determines the origins of this distinctive sense of paradise within early Christian polemics, establishes its Anglo-S...
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BEOWULF AND THE BEOWULF MANUSCRIPT

By: Kiernan, Kevin S.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Rutgers University Press: 1981

Seller ID: 2036

ISBN: 0813509254

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Very minor shelfwear to DJ. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 303 pages; The story of Beowulf and his hard-fought victory over the monster Grendel has captured the imagination of readers and listeners for a millennium. The heroic Anglo-Saxon story survives to the world in one eleventh-century manuscript that was badly burned in 1731, and in two eighteenth-century transcriptions of the manuscripts. Kevin S. Kiernan, one of the world's foremost Beowulf scholars, has studied the manuscript extensively with the most up-to-date methods, including fiber-optic backlighting and computer digitization...
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THE STOWE PSALTER

By: Kimmens, A.C.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: University of Toronto Press: 1979

Seller ID: 1577

ISBN: 0802022014

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Light soiling to textblock. ; Toronto Old English Series; 476 pages; One of Thirteen latin psalters with a continuous Old english interlinear gloss. Reprinted from a manuscript.
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THE FORTUNES OF KING ARTHUR

By: Lacy, Norris J.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: D. S. Brewer: 2005

Seller ID: 2675

ISBN: 1843840618

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Library barcode on ffep--however, no other library markings. Cloth has a tear along bottom of spine-- (2") but does not cut through the actual board. ; The essays in this volume offer a general overview and a number of detailed examinations of Arthur's fortunes, in two senses. First is the role of Fortune itself, often personified and consistently instrumental, in accounts of Arthur's court and reign. More generally the articles trace the trajectory of the Arthurian legend - its birth, rise and decline - through the middle ages. The final essay follows the continued turning of Fortune's w...
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ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND 29

By: Lapidge, Michael & Malcolm Godden & Simon Keynes & Peter S. Baker & Carl Berkhout & Martin Biddle & Mark Blackburn & Daniel Donoghue & Roberta Frank & Richard Gameson & Helmut Gneuss & Patrizia Lendinara & Andy Orchard & Fred Robinson & Donald Scragg

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 2001

Seller ID: 126

ISBN: 0521790719

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Corners lightly bumped. General shelfwear. ; Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture--linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic. Volume 29 includes: The archetype of Beowulf; Genesis A and the Anglo-Saxon "migration myth"; The Junius Psalter gloss: its historical and cultural context; The "robed Christ" in pre-Conquest sculptures of the Crucifixion; Aethelweard's Chronicon and Old English poetry; Aelfric's Preface to Genesis genre, rhetoric and...
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ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND 30

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 2002

Seller ID: 127

ISBN: 0521802105

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Dustjacket has a few tears along top of book. General edgewear. ; Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture--linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic. Volume 30 includes: Old sources, new resources: finding the right formula for Boniface; The illness of King Alfred the Great; The social context of narrative disruption in the Letter of Alexander to Aristotle; Broken bodies and singing tongues: gender and voice in the Cambridge Corpus Christi College; 23 Psychoma...
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THE ILLUSTRATED BEDE

By: Marsden, John; John Gregory (Trans. ) & Geoff Green (Photo. )

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Macmillan: 1989

Seller ID: 3912

ISBN: 033347595X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. DJ is taped down to boards. ; Contains selections from Bede's Ecclesiastical History, prose Life of Cuthbert and his Lives of the Abbots. Bede's writings are splendidly illustrated with colour photographs of the wealth of masonry and manuscript surviving from his time and of landscapes that he himself would have recognised. ; 224 pages
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ALTHOCHDEUTSCHE GLOSSEN: NACHTRGE Old High German Glosses : a Supplement

By: Mayer, Hartwig

Price: $27.00

Publisher: University of Toronto Press: 1974

Seller ID: 682

ISBN: 0802021166

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Dustjacket is protected in mylar. DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Adds about 1700 glosses and offers extensive information on their paleographic dating. Standard reference for those interested in German etymology, the history of the German language, and medieval Latin lexicography ; 154 pages
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THE ANGLO-NORMAN DIALECT A Manual of its Phonology and Morphology, with Illustrative Specimens of the Literature

By: Menger, Louis Emil

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Macmillan & Co. , Ltd: 1904

Seller ID: 1404

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Inner front hinge is cracked exposing webbing but textblock is firmly attached. Fraying to corners and spine ends. Former owner's details from Oct. 1934 on front free-endpaper. ; Columbia University studies in Romance philology and literature; 167 pages
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THE ELEMENTS OF OLD ENGLISH Elementary Grammar and Reference Grammar

By: Moore, Samuel & Thomas A. Knott

Price: $16.00

Publisher: George Wahr: 1934

Seller ID: 2553

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Inner cover has notes in ink. 2 pages have a couple of words in ink in margins else text is clean. Former owner's name on ffep. Boards are discolored. Edgewear to head and heel of spine. ; 211 pages
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THE STORY OF GENESIS AND EXODUS An Early English Song, about A. D. 1250

By: Morris, Richard

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Greenwood Press: 1969

Seller ID: 1003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Top corner lightly bumped. Book has light shelfwear and rubbing. Front and back end-papers has stains along inner gutter. ; Reprint edition of 1865.; Early English Text Society; 8vo; 262 pages
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CELTIC AND ANGLO-SAXON PAINTING Book Illumination in the British Isles 600-800

By: Nordenfalk, Carl

Price: $33.00

Publisher: George Braziller: 1977

Seller ID: 6097

ISBN: 0807608254

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Gift inscription in pen on ffep. Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has light edgewear. ; Anthology and study of early Medieval Illuminated Celtic manuscripts. Full page plates from Book of Kells, Lindisfarne Gospels, Book of Durrow, Book of Chad, Book of Mulling et al. ; 124 pages
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MEDIAEVAL STUDIES Volume XXXVI

By: O'Donnell, J. Reginald (Ed. )

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (PIMS): 1974

Seller ID: 1388

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Shelfwear and discoloration to spine. ; Contents: Absolute and the ordained powers of the Pope: an unedited text of Henry of Ghent; Stephanus Demonasterio and the Notariat at Aubenas in the Early Fifteenth Century; Trier, bibliothek des Priesterseminars Ms. 100 and the Text of Martianus Capella; Court Bishops of Alfonso VII of Leon-Castilla, 1147-1157; Roman REvolution of the eighth century: papal separation from Byzantium and alliance with the Franks; ... Bishop Robert Grosseteste; BM Ms. Arundel 43; Marchfield part of Frankish Constitution? Bibliographia Gotica. Bibliography of Writings on G...
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ENGLAND BEFORE THE NORMAN CONQUEST Being a History of the Celtic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon Periods Down to the Year A. D. 1066

By: Oman, Charles William Chadwick

Price: $36.00

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons / Methuen & Co.: 1919

Seller ID: 2500

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Former owner's name and inscription on ffep. Boards have edgewear to extremities. Two Small discolorations on back board. ; A History of England; Vol. 1; 679 pages
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LANGUAGE, SIGN AND GENDER IN BEOWULF

By: Overing, Gillian R.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press: 1990

Seller ID: 2066

ISBN: 0809315637

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 0.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 Inches; 168 pages; Overing examines Beowulf in terms of psychoanalytic, semiotic, and feminist theory.
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THE NORMAN EMPIRE

By: Patourel, John Le

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Clarendon Press: 1976

Seller ID: 105

ISBN: 0198225253

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Light rubbing and shelfwear; Political structures created by the Normans in Britain & France. ; 416 pages
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AN OLD ENGLISH GRAMMAR

By: Quirk, Randolph & C. L. Wrenn

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Methuen Publishing Company: 1955

Seller ID: 149

ISBN: 0416772404

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Soiling on a couple of pages. General wear. Flypage has previous owner's details and price in marker. ; 166 pages
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AN OLD ENGLISH GRAMMAR

By: Quirk, Randolph & C. L. Wrenn

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Methuen & Company: 1955

Seller ID: 291

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Dustjacket has moderate wear with large tears and a small section missing from top of spine. Book has felt marker 'x' on inner fly page. Bumping to top of back board. ; Methuen's Old English library; 166 pages
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AN OLD ENGLISH GRAMMAR

By: Quirk, Randolph & C. L. Wrenn

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Methuen & Company: 1955

Seller ID: 3464

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dust jacket

Dustjacket has light soiling and edgwear with chipping and a few small tears. Former owner's name on ffep. ; Methuen's Old English library; 166 pages
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OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE A Select Bibliography

By: Robinson, Fred C.

Price: $14.00

Publisher: University of Toronto Press: 1970

Seller ID: 1168

ISBN: 0802040268

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers. Soiling to wraps. Small tear to corner of wraps. ; Toronto medieval bibliographies; 68 pages
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PROPERTY AND PIETY IN EARLY MEDIEVAL WINCHESTER Documents Relating to the Topography of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman City and Its Minsters

By: Rumble, Alexander R.

Price: $185.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 2003

Seller ID: 2901

ISBN: 0198134134

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Top of book is bumped otherwise minor shelfwear to extremities. Dustjacket has a few small nicks and tears along top edge. Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing. ; Winchester Studies, 4.III: the Anglo-Saxon Minsters of Winchester; 1.26 x 11.02 x 8.82 Inches; 300 pages; Property and Piety comprises an edition and translation, with extensive commentary, of thirty-three Anglo-Saxon and Norman documents relating to the topography and minsters of early medieval Winchester. These texts record the physical effects on the city of the foundation and expansion of the three neighbouring minsters, and also...
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THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLES The Authentic Voices of England, from the Time of Julius Caesar to the Coronation of Henry II

By: Savage, Anne

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Guild Publishing Corp.: 1988

Seller ID: 29

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Has remainder mark (permanent marker line on bottom text block). Mild Shelfwear. ; Over 200 Illustrations in colour and black and white, with background notes, maps and commentary. Oversize. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 288 pages
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THE BOOK OF ST GILBERT

By: Sempringham, Saint Gilbert of; Raymonde Foreville & Gillian Keir (eds.)

Price: $145.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 2002

Seller ID: 3256

ISBN: 0198222602

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

2002 reprint of 1987 edition. ; Oxford Medieval Texts; 1.24 x 8.5 x 5.5 Inches; 500 pages; This is the first full edition of the canonization dossier of St. Gilbert of Sempringham, who died in 1189 and was canonized in 1202. It is a document of exceptional interest for the history of the canonization process in Rome, for the history of the one English religious Order of the Middle Ages, the Order of Sempringham, and for the biography of the founder himself, St. Gilbert. The order was founded to be primarily an Order of women, was confined to England, and so disappeared at the Reformation.
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Category: Anglo-Saxon Studies