Table of Contents

List of illustrations; 1. Identifiable books from the pre-Conquest library of Malmesbury Abbey Rodney Thomson; 2. Milred of Worcester's collection of Latin epigrams and its continental counterparts Patrick Sims-Williams; 3. The prefix un- and the metrical grammar of Beowulf Calvin B. Kendall; 4. Hrothgar's 'sermon' in Beowulf as parental wisdom Elaine Tuttle Hansen; 5. Lexical evidence for the authorship of the prose psalms in the Paris Psalter Janet M. Bately; 6. Byrhtferth of Ramsey and the early sections of the Historia Regum attributed to Symeon of Durham Michael Lapidge; 7. Byrhtferth's Enchiridion and the computus in Oxford, St John's College Peter S. Baker; 8. Princeps Merciorum gentis: the family, career and connections of Ælfhere, ealdorman of Mercia 956–83 A. Williams; 9. The laws of Cnut and the history of Anglo-Saxon royal promises Pauline Stafford; 10. Sprouston, Roxburghshire: an Anglo-Saxon settlement discovered by air reconnaissance J. K. S. St Joseph; 11. Histories and surveys of Old English literature: a chronological review Daniel G. Calder; 12. Bibliography for 1980 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton, C. R. E. Coutts and Simon Keynes; Index to volumes 6–10.

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This volume studies some of the main topics of Anglo-Saxon history.