Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 31 - 9780521807722

Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 31Author(s): Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden, Simon Keynes\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521807722, 978-0521807722\nSynopsis\nOne of the most important manuscripts surviving from pre-Conquest England receives penetrating analysis by several scholars. The 'Junius Manuscript' is evaluated from a number of intersecting perspectives, including codicology, decoration, script and punctuation; the confluence of these permits a fresh and convincing dating of this crucially important witness to Old English poetry. This demonstration is strikingly corroborated by an independent analysis of the textual transmission of one of the poems contained in the manuscript Daniel which is analysed in connection with another poetic version of the same biblical text, here entitled Three Youths, preserved in the 'Exeter Book'. lfric's conception of the creation and fall of the angels is.