ASNC GUIDES, TEXTS, AND STUDIES 1

ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND

A Bibliographical Handbook
for Students of Anglo-Saxon History

Simon Keynes

*** 5th EDITION (2004) NOW AVAILABLE ***

Anglo-Saxon England: a Bibliographical Handbook for Students of Anglo-Saxon History, 5th ed. (October 2004), comes in the form of a substantial A4 booklet (230 pp. + 2 colour plates, 2 diagrams, and 4 maps), intended to serve as a guide to the study of Anglo-Saxon history. It includes a comprehensive guide to the primary source material (texts, translations, etc.), and otherwise comprises sections of reading arranged chronologically and thematically, incorporating general advice where appropriate or necessary.

SCHEME OF CLASSIFICATION

A Textbooks, works of reference, and prosopography
B Primary source material
C From settlements to kingdoms
D From paganism to Christianity
E The supremacy of the Mercian kings
F From Ecgberht (802-39) to Alfred (871-99)
G England in the tenth century
H The Danelaw
J The reign of King Æthelred the Unready (978-1016)
K The Danish kings of England (1016-42)
L Edward the Confessor, Earl Godwine and Harold
M Kingship and royal government
N Aspects of society
P Land, wealth, towns, and trade
Q Church, learning, and the cults of saints
R William the Conqueror and the Norman Conquest
S Anglo-Saxon scholarship and Anglo-Saxonism
T Collections of papers
Maps

An interactive version of the bibliography in an earlier (but rather shorter and now outdated) incarnation (1998) is available on the Internet, courtesy of the Richard Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies and Manuscript Research, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, USA:

http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/research/rawl/keynesbib/index.html

Also accessible via a link from:

http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/sdk13/asindex.html

Copies of Anglo-Saxon England: a Bibliographical Handbook for Students of Anglo-Saxon History, in booklet form, may be obtained, for £8.00 (or $15.00), from The Secretary, Department of ASNC, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP. You may obtain a copy by visiting the departmental office in person, or by completing the slip below.

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Please send me ___ copy/copies of Anglo-Saxon England: a Bibliographical Handbook for Students of Anglo-Saxon History, 5th ed. (2004), at £8.00 (or $15.00) per copy, plus post and packing [details from Departmental Secretary]. I enclose a cheque for £________ (made payable to the University of Cambridge).

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Further details of the series 'ASNC Guides, Texts, and Studies', which includes bibliographies of Scandinavian history in the viking age (M. J. Syrett), and medieval Welsh literature (O. J. Padel), will be found on the website of the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic (www.asnc.cam.ac.uk).

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