Böcker av Helmut Gneuss

Originally delivered as a lecture at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, this volume was published in 2002 as "AElfric von Eynsham und seine Zeit," introducing, as Gneuss says, "an Anglo-Saxon author . . . who was the first, and for a long time the only, master of prose written in English."

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts is the first publication to list every surviving manuscript or manuscript fragment written in Anglo-Saxon England between the seventh and the eleventh centuries or imported into the country during that time.

The articles in this volume, both in English and German, are devoted to the study of books, readers and libraries in medieval England, especially in the Anglo-Saxon period.

Among topics covered in this volume, two important authorship questions are settled; the discovery of a major Northumbrian settlement is reported; and the conceptions of Old English literature which have prevailed during the last three hundred years are paraded for critical inspection. The usual comprehensive bibliography rounds off the book.