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Articles from Anglo-Saxon England

‘Exeter Riddle 4’ and Two Other Bell Riddles

<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>In early medieval England, the ringing of bells served a wide range of functions. This article argues that a detailed understanding of bells ...
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ASE volume 50 Cover and Front matter

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Theodore of Tarsus and the Study of Computus at the Canterbury School

<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>The Irish <jats:italic>Computus Einsidlensis</jats:italic> (<jats:italic>CE</jats:italic>) of <jats:italic>c.&l...
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Three New <i>Agnus Dei</i> Pennies

<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>The recorded corpus of <jats:italic>Agnus Dei</jats:italic> pennies made or found in England has been augmented by three further ...
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Scholars Come for the Archbishop: the Afterlife of Archbishop Wulfstan of York, 1023–2023

<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>The purpose of this article is to provide a synoptic view of what Patrick Wormald has aptly called the ‘rather odd’ history of Wulfstan s...
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Innovation and Experimentation in Late Seventh-Century Law: the Case of Theodore, Hlothhere, Wihtræd and Ine

<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>The late seventh century was a particularly active period of legal writing in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: three royal decrees, two church counc...
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Aldhelm’s <i>Aenigmata</i>, Greek riddles, and the <i>Hisperica famina</i>

<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>When Aldhelm came to compose a collection of Latin riddles in the late seventh century, the riddle was already an established literary genre ...
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John Leland and Asser’s <i>Vita Ælfredi regis:</i> British Library, MS Cotton Otho A. <scp>xii</scp> Reconsidered in its Tudor Context

<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>Before the sixteenth century the religious houses had been the chief repositories of learning in England. With the Henrician religious revolu...
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The hidation of the Hwicce: investigating its halving between the eighth century and 1086

<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>The total hidage of land in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the Hwicce at its greatest extent appears to have been halved at an unknown date betwe...
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Index of contents, volumes 1–50

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