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31 produkter
Elder Edda
A Book of Viking Lore
Häftad, 2011
175 kr
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Compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating back centuries earlier, these mythological and heroic poems tell of gods and mortals from an ancient era: the giant-slaying Thor, the doomed Völsung family, the Hel-ride of Brynhild and the cruelty of Atli the Hun. …
Elder Edda
A Book of Viking Lore
Av Andy Orchard
E-bok, 2011
108 kr
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Compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating back centuries earlier, these mythological and heroic poems tell of gods and mortals from an ancient era: the giant-slaying Thor, the doomed Völsung family, the Hel-ride of Brynhild and the cruelty of Atli the Hun. …
Heathen Gods in Old English Literature
Av Richard North, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
560 kr
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Heathen gods are hard to find in Old English literature. Most Anglo-Saxon writers had no interest in them, and scholars today prefer to concentrate on the Christian civilization for which the Anglo-Saxons were so famous. Richard North offers an interesting view of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian …
Representations of the Natural World in Old English Poetry
Av Jennifer Neville, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
842 kr
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This book examines descriptions of the natural world in a wide range of Old English poetry. Jennifer Neville describes the physical conditions experienced by the Anglo-Saxons - the animals, diseases, landscapes, seas and weather with which they had to contend. She argues that poetic descriptions of …
Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Av Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
692 kr
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How did the Anglo-Saxons conceptualize the interim between death and Doomsday? In this 2001 book, Ananya Jahanara Kabir presents an investigation into the Anglo-Saxon belief in the 'interim paradise': paradise as a temporary abode for good souls following death and pending the final decisions of …
The Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church
A Study and Edition of the 'Durham Hymnal'
Av Inge B. Milfull, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
640 kr
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This 1996 book provides a study and critical edition of the corpus of hymns sung by monks and canons in their services in England before the Norman Conquest. It assembles textual evidence, some of it hitherto unpublished, based on all extant manuscripts. Of these, an eleventh-century Latin …
The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England
Av Richard Marsden, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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The early medieval Vulgate Bible had no fixed textual form - multiple copying resulted in a multitude of forms. This 1995 book tackles questions about the transmission of the Vulgate Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England. By tracing the history of the text in the surviving Latin manuscripts we can …
Images of Community in Old English Poetry
Av Hugh Magennis, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
714 kr
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This book explores ideas of community and the relationship of individuals to communities widely evident in Old English poetry. It pays particular attention to the context in which major poetic manuscripts of the late Anglo-Saxon period were received, a time when concerns about community appear to …
Old English Biblical Verse
Studies in Genesis, Exodus and Daniel
Av Paul G. Remley, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
654 kr
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This is an extended study of the Old Testament poems of the Junius collection as a group. The circumstances surrounding their composition and transmission are mysterious: none is ascribed to a named author and none situated even relatively within the development of Anglo-Saxon Christian poetry. …
The Poetic Art of Aldhelm
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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Aldhelm of Malmesbury has been described as 'the first English man of letters'. He was the first Germanic author to compose extensively in Latin metrical verse, and his Latin works were amongst the most influential in Anglo-Saxon England. Aldhelm can also be considered the best-read of Anglo-Saxon …
Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage
Av C. R. Dodwell, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
720 kr
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This 1999 book is concerned with the pictorial language of gesture revealed in Anglo-Saxon art, and its debt to classical Rome. Reginald Dodwell was an eminent art historian and former Director of the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester. In this, his last book, he notes a striking similarity of …
Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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Peter Clemoes brings a lifetime's close study of Anglo-Saxon texts to this appreciation of Old English poetry, with an alternative interpretation which relates the poetry to both the entire Anglo-Saxon way of thinking and the structures of its society. Clemoes proposes a dynamic principle of Old …
The Poetic Art of Aldhelm
Inbunden, 1994
1473 kr
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Aldhelm of Malmesbury has been described as 'the first English man of letters'. He was the first Germanic author to compose extensively in Latin metrical verse, and his Latin works were amongst the most influential in Anglo-Saxon England. Aldhelm can also be considered the best-read of Anglo-Saxon …
The Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church
A Study and Edition of the 'Durham Hymnal'
Av Inge B. Milfull, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
2528 kr
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This 1996 book provides a study and critical edition of the corpus of hymns sung by monks and canons in their services in England before the Norman Conquest. It assembles textual evidence, some of it hitherto unpublished, based on all extant manuscripts. Of these, an eleventh-century Latin …
The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England
Av Richard Marsden, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
2096 kr
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The early medieval Vulgate Bible had no fixed textual form - multiple copying resulted in a multitude of forms. This 1995 book tackles questions about the transmission of the Vulgate Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England. By tracing the history of the text in the surviving Latin manuscripts we can …
The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon England
Av Mary Clayton, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
720 kr
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The cult of the Virgin Mary is associated by most medievalists with the twelfth and succeeding centuries. This book, however, provides a wide-ranging exploration of the cult in England from c. 700 to the Conquest. Interest in and devotion to Mary flourished in the late seventh and eighth centuries …
'lfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham
Av Christopher A. Jones, Andy Orchard m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
1797 kr
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Though best known today for his Old English homilies, the Anglo-Saxon scholar 'lfric also composed a Latin 'letter' to his fellow monks at Eynsham (Oxfordshire) containing a detailed outline of their daily and seasonal round of prayer and other duties. The document offers a rare glimpse of what …
Religion and Literature in Western England, 600-800
Av Patrick Sims-Williams, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
574 kr
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Even the Venerable Bede knew little about the two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms described in this book. In the sixth and seventh centuries the pagan peoples of the Hwicce and Magonsaetan occupied the frontier from Stratford-upon-Avon as far as the Welsh kingdoms west of Offa's Dyke. They retained their own …
Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Av Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1778 kr
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How did the Anglo-Saxons conceptualize the interim between death and Doomsday? In this 2001 book, Ananya Jahanara Kabir presents an investigation into the Anglo-Saxon belief in the 'interim paradise': paradise as a temporary abode for good souls following death and pending the final decisions of …
Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition
Av Andy Orchard
Inbunden, 2021
354 kr
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What offers over seven hundred witty enigmas in several languages? Answer: The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition. Riddles, wordplay, and inscrutable utterances have been at the heart of Western literature for many centuries. Often brief and always delightful, medieval riddles provide …
Pride and Prodigies
Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript
Av Andy Orchard
Häftad, 2003
620 kr
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Monsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways. In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by …
New Readings in the Vercelli Book
Av Samantha Zacher, Samantha Zacher m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1183 kr
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The late tenth-century Vercelli Book (Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare CXVII) contains one of the earliest surviving collections of homilies and poetry in the English language. The manuscript's combination of poetry and homiletic prose has generated intense scholarly debate, and there is no …
Critical Companion to Beowulf
Av Andy Orchard
Inbunden, 2001
1958 kr
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A complete guide to the text and context of the most famous Old English poem. "A generous, energetic, engaging work". JOSEPHINE BLOOMFIELD, OHIO UNIVERSITY.Beowulf is the best known and most closely studied literary work surviving from Anglo-Saxon England, and the modern reader is faced with a …
Commentary on The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition
Av Andy Orchard
Inbunden, 2021
650 kr
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Pride and Prodigies
Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript
Av Andy Orchard
E-bok, 2003
806 kr
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Monsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways. In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by …
New Readings in the Vercelli Book
Av Samantha Zacher, Andy Orchard
E-bok, 2009
1518 kr
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The late tenth-century Vercelli Book (Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare CXVII) contains one of the earliest surviving collections of homilies and poetry in the English language. The manuscript's combination of poetry and homiletic prose has generated intense scholarly debate, and there is no …
Pride and Prodigies
Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript
Av Andy Orchard
E-bok, 2003
806 kr
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Monsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways. In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by …
New Readings in the Vercelli Book
Av Samantha Zacher, Andy Orchard
E-bok, 2009
1518 kr
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The late tenth-century Vercelli Book (Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare CXVII) contains one of the earliest surviving collections of homilies and poetry in the English language. The manuscript's combination of poetry and homiletic prose has generated intense scholarly debate, and there is no …
Latin Learning and English Lore (Volumes I & II)
Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge
Av Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Andy Orchard
E-bok, 2005
3167 kr
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Throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, Latin and Old English were, to large extent, alternative literary languages. Latin Learning and English Lore is a collection of essays examining the complex co-existence of the two languages within the literary, historical, and cultural milieu of Anglo-Saxon …
