Ashgate Pub Co, Date: 2008. Hardcover. New. 260 pages. 9.45x6.42x0.94 inches. 2008. Ashgate Pub Co ISBN 0754651207 9780754651208 [GB]

ISBN10: 0754651207, ISBN13: 9780754651208, [publisher: Ashgate (2008)] Hardcover 24x16cm, xiv,271 pages., A festschrift containing 16 papers. "This volume brings together essays by an internationally renowned group of scholars on four themes that the honorand has made his own: myths, rulership, church and charters. Myth and rulership are addressed in articles on the early history of Wessex, AEthelflaed of Mercia and the battle of Brunanburh; contributions concerned with charters explore the means for locating those hitherto lost, the use of charters in the study of place-names, their role as instruments of agricultural improvement, and the reasons for the decline in their output immediately after the Norman Conquest. Nicholas Brooks's longstanding interest in the church of Canterbury is reflected in articles on the Kentish minster of Reculver, which became a dependency of the church of Canterbury, on the role of early tenth-century archbishops in developing coronation ritual, and on the presentation of Archbishop Dunstan as a prophet." "This collection will be welcomed by the many readers who have benefited from Nicholas Brooks's own work, or who have an interest in the Anglo-Saxon past more generally. It is an outstanding contribution to early medieval studies". - from dustwrapper.
[Svendborg, Denmark] [Publication Year: 2008]

Ashgate, Aldershot, England Ashgate (2008) orig. boards Minor wear. VG., dustwrapper 24x16cm, xiv, 271 pages., A festschrift containing 16 papers.