'Chaucer's England' presents new interpretations of late fourteenth- century English society through a unique combination of historical inquiry and literary analysis.

A collection of 10 essays on The legacy of Sutton Hoo' emerging from a conference organized by the University of Minnesota in 1989. Contributors include: Alan Stahl (the Sutton Hoo coin parcel); Edward Schoenfield and Jana Schulman (an economic assessment); Roberta Frank, Robert Creed (Beowulf and Sutton Hoo); Simon Keynes (Raedwald the Bretwalda); Wesley Stevens (sidereal time in Anglo-Saxon England); Else Roesdahl (princely burial in Scandinavia); Henrik Jansen (the archaeology of Danish commercial centres); Martin Carver (the future of Sutton Hoo) .

Urban ceremonial in the Middle Ages took various forms and served a number of different ends--private, collegial, political, and religious. Broadly construed, urban ceremonial included public functions of multiple sorts. From private, but public, celebrations of births, marriages, and deaths to the grand entries of rulers into cities, the spectacles were designed to impress events on collective memory. - from the Introduction.

Urban ceremonial in the Middle Ages took various forms and served a number of different ends--private, collegial, political, and religious. Broadly construed, urban ceremonial included public functions of multiple sorts. From private, but public, celebrations of births, marriages, and deaths to the grand entries of rulers into cities, the spectacles were designed to impress events on collective memory. - from the Introduction.