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Natural and Supernatural in Early Medieval England
Häftad, 2025
336 kr
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When men and women in early medieval England thought about the world around them, they did so in ways that often strike us as strange. In their surviving writings, we are confronted continually with unfamiliar ideas - about the creatures and beings which populated the world, about the forces and …
Entertainment, Pleasure, and Meaning in Early England
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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The people of early England (c. 450-1100 CE) enjoyed numerous kinds of entertainment, recreation and pleasure, but the scattered records of such things have made the larger picture challenging to assemble. This volume illuminates the merrier aspects of early English life, extending our …
Health and the Body in Early Medieval England
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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This Element explores ideas about the sick and healthy body in early medieval England from the seventh to the eleventh centuries, proposing that surviving Old English texts offer consistent and coherent ideas about how human bodies work and how disease operates. A close examination of these texts …
Multilingualism in Early Medieval Britain
Av Lindy Brady
Häftad, 2023
354 kr
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In the words of its own historians, pre-Norman Britain held five languages and four peoples. Yet in modern scholarship, Old English is too often studied separately from the other languages that surrounded it. This Element offers a comprehensive synthesis of the evidence from the pre-Norman period …
Visions of Hierarchy and Inequality in Early Medieval England
Av Stuart Pracy
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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This Element examines the sociopolitical hierarchy of England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, focusing upon the plasticity of the boundary between the ranks of ceorl and thegn. Offering a nuanced analysis of terms such as ceorl and thegn in both earlymedieval texts and modern scholarship, the …
Literary Form in Early Medieval England
Häftad, 2025
336 kr
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The earliest English writers left little comment on their literary forms. In contrast to the grammatical treatises of late antiquity or critical studies of contemporary and modern literature, early medieval English writing offers only sparse contemporaneous self-commentary, often in brief or …
Recovering Old English
Av Kees Dekker
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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This Element Recovering Old English examines the philological activities of scholars involved in the recovery of Old English in the period between c. 1550 and 1830. This Element focuses on four philological pursuits that dominated this recovery: collecting documents, recording the lexicon editing …
Writing the World in Early Medieval England
Av Nicole Guenther Discenza, Heide Estes
Inbunden, 2023
1202 kr
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The early medieval English were far more diverse and better connected to a broader world. Their writings reveal substantial interest in Europe, Asia, and Africa while they situated themselves firmly within Christian Europe. They drew many ideas from textual sources and filled out their conceptions …
Multilingualism in Early Medieval Britain
Av Lindy Brady
Inbunden, 2023
1048 kr
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In the words of its own historians, pre-Norman Britain held five languages and four peoples. Yet in modern scholarship, Old English is too often studied separately from the other languages that surrounded it. This Element offers a comprehensive synthesis of the evidence from the pre-Norman period …
Recovering Old English
Av Kees Dekker
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element Recovering Old English examines the philological activities of scholars involved in the recovery of Old English in the period between c. 1550 and 1830. This Element focuses on four philological pursuits that dominated this recovery: collecting documents, recording the lexicon editing …
Visions of Hierarchy and Inequality in Early Medieval England
Av Stuart Pracy
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element examines the sociopolitical hierarchy of England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, focusing upon the plasticity of the boundary between the ranks of ceorl and thegn. Offering a nuanced analysis of terms such as ceorl and thegn in both earlymedieval texts and modern scholarship, the …
Health and the Body in Early Medieval England
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element explores ideas about the sick and healthy body in early medieval England from the seventh to the eleventh centuries, proposing that surviving Old English texts offer consistent and coherent ideas about how human bodies work and how disease operates. A close examination of these texts …
Entertainment, Pleasure, and Meaning in Early England
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The people of early England (c. 450-1100 CE) enjoyed numerous kinds of entertainment, recreation and pleasure, but the scattered records of such things have made the larger picture challenging to assemble. This volume illuminates the merrier aspects of early English life, extending our …
Natural and Supernatural in Early Medieval England
Inbunden, 2025
954 kr
Lägg i varukorg
When men and women in early medieval England thought about the world around them, they did so in ways that often strike us as strange. In their surviving writings, we are confronted continually with unfamiliar ideas - about the creatures and beings which populated the world, about the forces and …
Literary Form in Early Medieval England
Inbunden, 2025
954 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The earliest English writers left little comment on their literary forms. In contrast to the grammatical treatises of late antiquity or critical studies of contemporary and modern literature, early medieval English writing offers only sparse contemporaneous self-commentary, often in brief or …
Europe and the Anglo-Saxons
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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This publication explores the interactions between the inhabitants of early medieval England and their contemporaries in continental Europe. Starting with a brief excursus on previous treatments of the topic, the discussion then focuses on Anglo-Saxon geographical perceptions and representations of …
Art and the Formation of Early Medieval England
Häftad, 2022
354 kr
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This Element covers the art produced in early medieval England from the departure of the Romans to the early twelfth century, an art that shows the input of multi-ethnic artists, patrons, and influences as it develops over the centuries. Art in early medieval England is an art of migrants and …
Crime and Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England
Av Andrew Rabin
Häftad, 2020
317 kr
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Arguably, more legal texts survive from pre-Conquest England than from any other early medieval European community. The corpus includes roughly seventy royal law-codes, to which can be added well over a thousand charters, writs, and wills, as well as numerous political tracts, formularies, rituals, …
Writing the World in Early Medieval England
Av Nicole Guenther Discenza, Heide Estes
Häftad, 2023
406 kr
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The early medieval English were far more diverse and better connected to a broader world. Their writings reveal substantial interest in Europe, Asia, and Africa while they situated themselves firmly within Christian Europe. They drew many ideas from textual sources and filled out their conceptions …
