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Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, John Blair m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2040 kr
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Widely acknowledged as the essential reference work for this period, this volume brings together more than 700 articles written by 150 top scholars that cover the people, places, activities, and creations of the Anglo-Saxons. The only reference work to cover the history, archaeology, arts, …
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 …
Trinity and Incarnation in Anglo-Saxon Art and Thought
Av Barbara C. Raw, Simon Keynes
Häftad, 2006
824 kr
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This book is a study of the theology of the Trinity as expressed in the literature and art of the late Anglo-Saxon period. It examines the meaning of the representations of the Trinity in tenth- and eleventh-century English manuscripts and their relationship to Anglo-Saxon theology, and to earlier …
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 …
'lfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham
Av Christopher A. Jones, Simon Keynes
Häftad, 2007
823 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 …
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 Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2006
549 kr
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This book provides an edition, with a facing translation and detailed commentary, of the three apocryphal gospels of Mary written in Old English. The gospels, which deal with Mary's birth, childhood, death and assumption, are found in manuscripts in Oxford and Cambridge, but have rarely been …
The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf
Av Calvin B. Kendall, Simon Keynes
Häftad, 2006
654 kr
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This book argues that the formal art of the Old English epic Beowulf is shaped and determined by the poetic language which the poet inherited from the traditional, oral culture of Anglo-Saxon England. The patterns of metre and alliteration exhibited in the poem were not imposed by the poet on his …
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 …
The Old English Lives of St. Margaret
Av Mary Clayton, Hugh Magennis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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This book presents the two Old English versions of the colourful legend of the virgin martyr, St Margaret of Antioch, who became one of the most widely celebrated of medieval saints and the patron saint of childbirth. The two extant vernacular lives are published together, edited with a facing …
The Textuality of Old English Poetry
Av Carol Braun Pasternack, Simon Keynes
Häftad, 2006
767 kr
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This study constructs a reading of Old English poetry which takes up issues in poststructuralist theory, including intertextuality, work versus text and the author. The modern reader knows this literature as a discrete number of poems, set up and printed in units punctuated as modern sentences and …
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 …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
619 kr
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Four very different kinds of Anglo-Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume: traditions, learned and oral, about the settlement of the country, study of foreign-language grammar, interest in exotic jewels as reflections of the glory of God, and a mainly rational attitude to medicine. Publication …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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Among the diverse topics covered in this volume is a pioneer account of a unique group of Anglo-Saxon embroideries preserved on the continent and the publication of a previously unknown charter. Themes illuminated are as varied as the status of women, early urban history, the nature of medical …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
606 kr
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Was Old English metre really based on stress and rhythm? Do we really know that a particular glossed manuscript of a Latin curriculum author was used in an Anglo-Saxon classroom and, if so, how? How were disputes about bookland dealt with? What happened to the last male representative of the West …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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Areas of study pursued in this book include a revealing grammatical document from eighth-century Northumbria; renewed excavations at Sutton Hoo are reported; the existence of an unnoticed late Old English prose version of parts of Gregory's Dialogues is pointed out. Fresh thinking is directed to …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
619 kr
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This volume offers fundamental evidence and discussion illuminating a wide range of important subjects: possible influence of Cicero on Bede's attitude to rhetoric; the probability that Theodore and Hadrian brought a glossary from Italy to England; the traditional concept of the narrator in Old …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Simon Keynes, Michael Lapidge m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
606 kr
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This volume explores many fundamental questions regarding Anglo-Saxon history. Among those considered is the question of did the earliest English prose really divide into a Mercian tradition and a separate West Saxon one? What is the full roll-call of extant texts containing late Old English …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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This volume makes important contributions to our stock of primary manuscript evidence: it recovers parts of six previously unrecorded charters and analyses two sets of fragments, each unique in its own way - two leaves of Old Testament text written in Mercia or Canterbury early in the ninth century …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
619 kr
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The principal emphasis of this book is the relationship between England and its neighbours in the pre-Conquest period. It brings together fresh information of England's place in the early medieval world, with essays concentrating on finance and trade, travel, learning and education. A detailed …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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This book illustrates some of the exciting paths of enquiry being explored in many different fields of Anglo-Saxon studies - archaeology, legal history, palaeography, Old English syntax and poetic, Latin learning with its many reflexes in Old English prose literature, and others. In all these …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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The vitality of Anglo-Saxon studies is reflected in the continuing acquisition of fresh knowledge and perspectives gained from the combination of disparate but complementary skills and disciplines. Evidence presented in this book reveals unsuspected aspects of the influence of Aldhelm's Latin …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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That Alcuin addressed to the monks of Lindisfarne the question, 'What has Ingeld to do with Christ?', is a much repeated dogma in Old English studies; but in this book close examination of the letter in question shows that it was addressed not to Lindisfarne nor to a monastic community, but to a …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
619 kr
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One of the most important primary sources for our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England is the charters and manuscripts which survive from the period before 1066. In the present book, two complementary essays treat the charters of mid tenth-century English kings, bringing previously unknown documents to …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
606 kr
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Our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England depends wholly on the precise and detailed study of the texts that have come down to us from pre-Conquest times. The present book contains pioneering studies of some of these sources which have been neglected or misunderstood. A comprehensive study of a group of …
