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Colleen M. Curran - Anglo-Latin Poetic Tradition, Inbunden

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Anglo-Latin Poetic Tradition

Sources, Transmission, and Reception, ca. 650–1100

Av Colleen M. Curran

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This volume presents new perspectives on the sources, transmission, and reception of Anglo-Latin poetry, ca. 650–1100.In the wake of recent seminal studies on Aldhelm, these essays collectively explore the wider poetic tradition, spanning the Late Antique inheritance through to the eleventh century. By encompassing select studies of both major and lesser-known authors, sources, and works, the volume can present new understandings of the multifaceted intellectual culture that gave rise to this unique and vibrant literary period. It engages with the medium of poetry, including manuscript culture, historical and intellectual backgrounds, and the epigraphic traditions; and highlights idiosyncratic style, metre, poetic diction, and formulas.The Anglo-Latin poetic tradition is notoriously and deliberately challenging, but this accessible collection yields rich new insights from emerging and established Anglo-Latin scholars.
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Colleen Curran is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Galway. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher on "A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry," based at the University of Oxford, where she was also a Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College.

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The essays in this volume emerged from a 2022 conference held as part of the CLASP project (A Consolidated Library of Anglo Saxon Poetry [https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]). Most of the contributions reflect the focus of that project, which facilitates identification of metrical and verbal patterns contextualized by the manuscript evidence. The contributions are strongest where they make very specific arguments drawing on textual and metrical evidence and also offer sensitive readings.The volume is a pleasure to use in printed and electronic form. The open-access, Creative Commons–licensed ebook is a PDF that downloads without fuss and does not require a special app or reader. Both formats have footnotes right on the page, and there are clearly arranged bibliographies for each chapter and for the book as a whole.[...]I mean no criticism of the collection as published when I say I finished it wishing for one more chapter to tackle, or at least raise, some big questions. The one top of mind is this: What is dis- tinctively poetic for early Anglo-Latin authors? Many of the topics treated here brush up against this question. Is markedness any more a characteristic of verse than of prose in this tra- dition? That I am left wanting (someone) to tackle bigger questions suggests that Colleen M. Curran’s editorial wish—that the reader be inspired to further study—has been fulfilled.

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