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RR 2015/040 The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England (2nd edition) Edited by Michael Lapidge and others Wiley-Blackwell Malden, MA and Oxford 2014 xix + 583 pp. ISBN 978 0 470 65632 7 (print); ISBN 978 1 118 31610 8 (e-book) £120 $195 (print); £96.99 $156.99 (e-book)
Keywords Encyclopedias, England, History
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-08-2014-0229
The Anglo-Saxon Age continues to fascinate. It is regularly in the public eye, with recent major findings of artefacts such as in Suffolk in 2008 (Gardner, 2014) and the Staffordshire Hoard in 2009 (Telegraph 2009). The second edition of this encyclopedia, first published in 1999 as The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, was prompted by these new discoveries and the recent advances in archaeology and related disciplines such as archaeobotany and palaeopathology. The fact that Anglo-Saxon studies encompass such a large number of supporting disciplines inspired the original idea for this encyclopedia: there was a need for a single-volume handbook that encompassed all aspects of Anglo-Saxon studies.
As many articles as possible from the first edition have been updated, either by the original author, or by the editors in the cases where the author either could not be contacted or had passed away. This new edition also includes a second appendix:...