... and the first fifty Psalms, this essay argues that early Old English prose was highly learned and in dialogue with many of the primary texts of the medieval Western world. King Alfred Old English prose Gregory the Great Mercian West Saxon Anglo-Saxon the OE Bede The Pastoral Care The Chronicle CCCC 173...

... of his previous work, save perhaps for Mercian Hymns. This appears primarily in childhood recollection, coinciding with the war and immediately postwar years. Dante Alighieri Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hill Geoffrey Jonson Ben Petrarch Francesco Shelley Percy Bysshe ‘The Triumph...

... with a preliminary description of early Old English foot structure. Old English Prehistoric Old English vowel loss Middle English analogy Late Old English stray Germanic foot iamb resolution vowel reduction Middle English epenthesis Middle English metrical coherence Arundel Mercian dialect West Saxon...

... IN TOTA RAGIONEM   ²¹ POUOIS USQUE IN [DIEM IUDICI AMEN (?)] Figure 13.1. Kings of Powys on the Pillar of Eliseg This chapter continues the history of the relationship between the Welsh and the Mercians taking its start from the decline of Northumbrian power after...

... Chronicle A in at least some of its stages—and one produced close to Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Æthelstan, a chronicle known as the ‘Mercian Register’ or ‘Annals of Æthelflæd’. It argues that these chronicling developments are not independent, but respond one to another and illuminate the issues...

...Chapter four argues for a significant pattern of political alliance in the Welsh borderlands in the later Anglo-Saxon period, beginning in the tenth century, where half a dozen raids carried out jointly by Mercian earls and northern Welsh rulers have gone unnoticed because they are recorded largely...

...0 04 11 1993 By mid-1987 I had been part of West Mercian society for almost four years. I was approaching twenty-nine years’ service, and had spent another three years non-pensionable service as a cadet. I was thus within fourteen months of the regular thirty-year service retirement point...