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Heathen Gods in Old English Literature
Av Richard North, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
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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
842 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 …
The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform
Häftad, 2006
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This book explores the foundations of the intellectual renaissance in tenth-century England, including both the English Benedictine reform and the establishment by 'thelwold, Bishop of Winchester (963-84), of the most influential school in late Anglo-Saxon England. The vital early stages of …
Representations of the Natural World in Old English Poetry
Av Jennifer Neville, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
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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
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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
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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 Composition of Old English Poetry
Av Hal Momma
Häftad, 2007
729 kr
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This book offers an imaginative way of understanding the relationship between syntax and metre in Old English verse. It challenges the view that Old English poetry is composed in loose syntax to compensate for the strict requirements of prosody, such as metre and alliteration. It proposes instead …
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
654 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 …
Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century
Av Donald Scragg, Carole Weinberg
Häftad, 2006
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This book, first published in 2000, discusses the attitudes towards Anglo-Saxons expressed by English poets, playwrights and novelists from the thirteenth century to the present day. The essays are arranged chronologically, tracing literary responses to the Anglo-Saxons in the medieval period, the …
The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2006
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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 …
Anglo-Saxon Medicine
Häftad, 2006
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This is the first book to make a comprehensive study of Old English medical texts. Professor Cameron compares Anglo-Saxon medical practice with that of the Greeks and Romans from whom the Anglo-Saxons borrowed freely. He analyses the position of physicians in society, the conditions under which …
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 …
Archbishop Theodore
Commemorative Studies on his Life and Influence
Häftad, 2006
502 kr
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Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury (668-90), was a monk of Greek origin and extraordinary learning, who shaped the English Church into a structure it retained for a millennium. Yet until recently his early career has been unknown. This book builds on the publication of previously unprinted biblical …
The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature
Häftad, 2006
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Irish monks and missionaries played a crucial role in the conversion of the pagan Anglo-Saxons and in the formation of Christian culture in England, but the nature and extent of Irish influence on Old English poetry has remained largely undefined. Charles Wright identifies the characteristic …
Visible Song
Transitional Literacy in Old English Verse
Häftad, 2006
729 kr
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For many years there has been lively debate about the 'orality' or 'literacy' of Old English verse: about whether the Old English verse which has come down to us is primarily the product of oral composition or primarily written, insofar as it is transmitted only in manuscript. The present book …
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. …
Biblical Commentaries from the Canterbury School of Theodore and Hadrian
Av Bernhard Bischoff, Michael Lapidge
Häftad, 2007
804 kr
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This volume includes the first edition of a previously unknown text which throws light on the intellectual history of early medieval Europe. The biblical commentaries represent the teaching of two gifted Greek scholars who came to England from the Byzantine East. Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury …
Two Old English Apocrypha and their Manuscript Source
The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour
Av James Cross, Denis Brearley m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
935 kr
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In the course of this book Professor Cross presents the discovery of the actual manuscript source for the Old English versions of two biblical apocrypha, The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour. In collaboration with four other scholars, Professor Cross explores the implications of …
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 …
Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century
Av Mary Swan, Elaine M. Treharne
Häftad, 2006
750 kr
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This collection of essays, first published in 2000, aims to redefine the limits of Old English scholarship by studying some of the recent reworkings of texts composed earlier in the Anglo-Saxon period and their implications for the development of literary production across time. The essays in the …
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 'Laterculus Malalianus' and the School of Archbishop Theodore
Häftad, 2007
654 kr
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The Laterculus Malalianus, a historical exegesis of the life of Christ, appears to be the only complete text to survive from the hand of Archbishop Theodore at Canterbury. Its language, style and intellectual frame of reference are thus of great importance for establishing the nature and scope of …
Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic World
Häftad, 2008
636 kr
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In this book, Scarfe Beckett is concerned with representations of the Islamic world prevalent in Anglo-Saxon England. Using a wide variety of literary, historical and archaeological evidence, she argues that the first perceptions of Arabs, Ismaelites and Saracens which derived from Christian …
Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England
Narrative Strategies in the Junius 11 Manuscript
Häftad, 2009
692 kr
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This book explores the complex interrelationship between texts and drawings in the late tenth or early eleventh-century Junius II manuscript, the only surviving illustrated Anglo-Saxon poetic manuscript. The book, which contains a plate section of sixty-one illustrations, focuses on the way in …
Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2009
636 kr
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The cult of saints was one of the most important aspects of life in the Middle Ages, and it often formed the nucleus of developing group identities in a town, a province or a country. The literature of Anglo-Saxon England is unique among contemporary European literatures in that it features a vast …
