Latin acrostic poetry in Anglo-Saxon England: Reassessing the Contribution of John the Old Saxon
Other than charters, only a handful of Latin texts from Anglo-Saxon England can be conclusively dated to the ninth and early tenth centuries.1 Remarkably, of these, not one but two are sets of acrostic poetry in praise of West Saxon royalty: the first in honour of King Alfred and the second in honou...
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Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
2017
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