England before the Conquest: Studies in Primary Sources Presented to Dorothy Whitelock

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List of illustrations Acknowledgements Preface List of abbreviations 1. The writings of Dorothy Whitelock 2. The letters of Pope Boniface V and the mission of Paulinus to Northumbria Peter Hunter Blair 3. Bede's text of Libellus Responsionum of Gregory the Great to Augustine of Canterbury Paul Meyvaert 4. A background to St Boniface's mission J. M. Wallace-Hadrill 5. Evidence for contacts between the churches of the Irish and English from the Synod of Whitby to the Viking Age Kathleen Hughes 6. The development of military obligations in eighth- and ninth-century England Nicholas Brooks 7. 'lfric and the Old English version of the Ely privilege John Pope 8. Towns in late Anglo-Saxon England: the evidence and some possible lines of enquiry Henry Loyn 9. Regnum and sacerdotium in the early eleventh century Dorothy Bethurum Loomis 10. Scandinavian settlement in the territory of the Five Boroughs: the place-name evidence in part III, the Grimston-hybrids Kenneth Cameron 11. How long did the Scandinavian language survive in England R. I. Page 12. Personal names on the coinage of Edgar Olof von Feilitzen and Christopher Blunt 13. The narrative mode of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle before the Conquest Cecily Clark 14. The classic additions in the Old English Orosius Janet Bately 15. The orientation system in the Old English Orosius Rene Derolez 16. The ethic of war in old English J. E. Cross 17. The use in Beowulf of earlier heroic verse Alistair Campbell 18. Cynewulf's image of the Ascension Peter Clemoes 19. The 'Winchester School' before St 'thelwold Francis Wormald 20. The handwriting of Archbishop Wulfstan Neil Ker 21. The nummular brooch from Sulgrave Michael Dolley 22. Repton reconsidered: a study in structural criticism H. M. Taylor 23. Archaeology and the beginnings of English society Martin Biddle Index.