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Book Description: Four very different kinds of Anglo Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume: traditions, learned and oral, about the settlement of the country, study of foreign language grammar, interest in exotic jewels as reflections of the glory of God, and a mainly rational attitude to medicine. Publication of no less than three discoveries augments our corpus of manuscript evidence. The nature of Old English poetry is illuminated, and a useful summary of the editorial treatment of textual problems in Beowulf is provided. A re examination of the accounts of the settlement in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica and the Anglo Saxon Chronicle yields insights into the processes of Anglo Saxon learned historiography and oral tradition. A thorough going analysis of an under studied major work, Bald's Leechbook, demonstrates that the compiler, perhaps in King Alfred's reign, translated selections from a wide range of Latin texts in composing a well organized treatise directed against the diseases prevalent in his time. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo Saxon studies rounds off the book.

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