The Saxons in England Kemble Paperback Cambridge University Press Volume 1

The Saxons in EnglandA History of the English Commonwealth till the Period of the Norman Conquest\nAuthor(s): John Mitchell Kemble\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108036184, 978-1108036184\nSynopsis\nThis monumental 1849 publication was the first detailed analysis to compare Anglo-Saxon institutions with those of other Germanic peoples. The philologist and historian Kemble [tel] was born into a renowned family of actors, trained at Cambridge for both the bar and the church, but devoted his career to Germanic philology and Old English. His studies resulted in several books including a Beowulf edition [tel], a pioneering six-volume edition of Anglo-Saxon charters (Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici, [tel], and the posthumous Horae Ferales [tel], together with articles and translations in periodicals. He also corresponded for many years with Jacob Grimm. The Saxons drew heavily on Kemble's work on.