Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-03858-4 - Anglo-Saxon England 32 Edited by Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden and Simon Keynes Frontmatter More information Anglo-Saxon England 32 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-03858-4 - Anglo-Saxon England 32 Edited by Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden and Simon Keynes Frontmatter More information Her mon mæg giet gesion hiora swæ« © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-03858-4 - Anglo-Saxon England 32 Edited by Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden and Simon Keynes Frontmatter More information ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND 32 Edited by MICHAEL LAPIDGE University of Notre Dame MALCOLM GODDEN SIMON KEYNES University of Oxford University of Cambridge MARK BLACKBURN JOHN BLAIR University of Cambridge University of Oxford MARY CLAYTON ROBERTA FRANK University College, Dublin Yale University RICHARD GAMESON HELMUT GNEUSS University of Kent at Canterbury Universität München MECHTHILD GRETSCH NICHOLAS HOWE University of Göttingen University of California, Berkeley PATRIZIA LENDINARA KATHERINE O’BRIEN Università di Palermo O’KEEFFE, University of Notre Dame ANDY ORCHARD PAUL REMLEY University of Toronto University of Washington FRED ROBINSON DONALD SCRAGG Yale University University of Manchester PAUL SZARMACH University of Western Michigan © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-03858-4 - Anglo-Saxon England 32 Edited by Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden and Simon Keynes Frontmatter More information CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521813440 © Cambridge University Press 2003 This publication is in copyright. 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First published 2003 This digitally printed version 2007 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library ISBN 978-0-521-81344-0 hardback ISBN 978-0-521-03858-4 paperback ISBN 978-0-521-71292-7 set (all volumes) Subscriptions and further information for Anglo-Saxon England can be found at www.journals.cambridge.org/jid_ASE © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-03858-4 - Anglo-Saxon England 32 Edited by Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden and Simon Keynes Frontmatter More information Contents List of illustrations page vii On argumentation in Old English philology, with particular reference 1 to the editing and dating of Beowulf r. d. fulk Indiana University Knowledge of the writings of John Cassian in early Anglo-Saxon England 27 stephen lake University of Konstanz The earliest manuscript of Bede’s metrical Vita S. Cudbercti 43 helmut gneuss University of Munich and michael lapidge University of Notre Dame Beowulf and some fictions of the Geatish succession 55 frederick m. biggs University of Connecticut An Anglo-Saxon runic coin and its adventures in Sweden 79 margaret clunies ross University of Sydney The sources of the Old English Martyrology 89 christine rauer University of St Andrews Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 57: a witness to the early stages of the Benedictine reform in England? 111 mechthild gretsch University of Göttingen The Old English Benedictine Rule: writing for women and men 147 rohini jayatilaka University of Oxford The trick of the runes in The Husband’s Message 189 john d. niles University of Wisconsin v © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-03858-4 - Anglo-Saxon England 32 Edited by Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden and Simon Keynes Frontmatter More information Contents A late Saxon inscribed pendant from Norfolk 225 elisabeth okasha University College, Cork and susan youngs The British Museum Illustrations of damnation in late Anglo-Saxon manuscripts 231 sarah semple Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford The use of writs in the eleventh century 247 richard sharpe Wadham College, Oxford Addenda and corrigenda to the Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 293 helmut gneuss University of Munich Bibliography for 2002 307 debby banham, Newnham College, Cambridge carole p. biggam, University of Glasgow mark blackburn, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge carole hough, University of Glasgow simon keynes, Trinity College, Cambridge paul g. remley, University of Washington and rebecca rushforth, University of Cambridge Abbreviations listed before the bibliography (pages 308–9) are used throughout the volume without other explanation. The editorial assistance of Clare Orchard and Debby Banham is gratefully acknowledged. vi © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-03858-4 - Anglo-Saxon England 32 Edited by Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden and Simon Keynes Frontmatter More information Illustrations plates I Munich, Stadtarchiv, Historischer Verein Oberbayern, Hs. 733/16, 2v IIa Offa penny. Stockholm, Royal Coin Cabinet; photo Jan Eve Olsson IIb Ectypus of Offa penny in Jacob Serenius, Dictionarium Anglo-Svethico-Latinum (Hamburg, 1734), p. 21 IIc Offa penny. London, British Museum, registration no. 1912, 7-4-1 III Exeter, Cathedral Library, 3501, 123r IV Exeter, Cathedral Library, 3501, 123v V Inscribed lead pendant from Weasenham All Saints, Norfolk VI London, British Library, Harley 603, 68v: landscape with the smoking fissures VII London, British Library, Harley 603, 73r: stylized rocky cleft representing a place of torment or entrance to hell VIII London, British Library, Harley 603, 71v: tormented sinner in rocky fissure surrounded by hot coals IX London, British Library, Harley 603, 72r: a mound with vents; to the right a sinner tormented by a demon; to the left a group of figures with severed feet X London, British Library, Harley 603, 67r: a mound with decapitated figures and severed heads XI A burial from the execution cemetery at South Acre, Norfolk. Photo by J. Wymer, copyright Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service. Ref. EGR8 XII London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. V, 87v: Mambres summoning Jannes from hell figures 1 The second quire of F (reconstructed) page 45 2 The third quire of F (reconstructed) 46 3 The fourth quire of F (reconstructed) 47 4 Dunstable Five Knolls, Bedfordshire: an Anglo-Saxon execution 239 cemetery focused on a Bronze Age round barrow. After Dunning and Wheeler, ‘Barrow at Dunstable’, fig. 1. vii © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-03858-4 - Anglo-Saxon England 32 Edited by Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden and Simon Keynes Frontmatter More information Illustrations acknowledgements By permission of the Trustees of the British Museum the design on the cover is taken from the obverse of a silver penny issued at London in the early 880s, reflecting Alfred’s assumption of political control over the city. Permission to publish photographs has been granted by the Landeshauptstadt München Stadtarchiv (pl. I); the Royal Coin Cabinet, Stockholm, and Jan Eve Olsson (pl. IIa); the Trustees of the British Museum (pls. IIc and V); the Dean and Chapter of Exeter Cathedral (pls. III and IV); the British Library, London (pls. VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, and XII); Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service (pl. XI). viii © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-03858-4 - Anglo-Saxon England 32 Edited by Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden and Simon Keynes Frontmatter More information contributions for future editions are invited Material should be submitted to the editor most convenient regionally, with these exceptions: an article should be sent to John Blair if concerned with archaeology, to Mark Blackburn if concerned with numismatics, to Richard Gameson if concerned with art history, to Simon Keynes if concerned with history or onomastics, and to Michael Lapidge if concerned with Anglo-Latin or palaeography. 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