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Heliand
Text and Commentary
Häftad, 2002
577 kr
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James E. Cathey's Heliand: Text and Commentary is a simply unique, wonderfully encompassing, and helpful text, and nothing quite like it exists anywhere in the world. The commentary portion of the book consists of an interweaving of interpretation and philological consideration. This work presents …
Theorizing Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture
Av Catherine E. Karkov, Fred Orton
Häftad, 2003
512 kr
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Theorizing Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture significantly advances the complex study of Anglo-Saxon carved monuments, such as the Ruthwell Cross, by adopting more explicit theoretical approaches to the subject. Scholars included here are explicit in describing how their approaches complement (or, more …
Old English Literature in Its Manuscript Context
Häftad, 2004
577 kr
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In Old English Literature in its Manuscript Context, editor Joyce Tally Lionarons has developed a multifaceted collection examining the issues facing the textual transmission of Anglo-Saxon writings. Eight established scholars consider the ideas of textual identity, authorship and translation, and …
Ancient Privileges
Beowulf, Law, and the Making of Germanic Antiquity
Häftad, 2006
577 kr
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One of the great triumphs of nineteenth-century philology was the development of the wide array of comparative data that underpins the grammars of the Old Germanic dialects, such as Old English, Old Icelandic, Old Saxon, and Gothic. These led to the reconstruction of Common Germanic and …
Innovation and Tradition in the Writings of the Venerable Bede
Häftad, 2006
577 kr
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Works prior to this book focused on Bede as not only a European, but also as an English scholar, historian, scientist, or a biographer of saints, and have used a traditional approach towards his explanation of the Bible. Bede's interpretation of his work, its continuous progress, and the reasons …
Caedmon's Hymn and Material Culture in the World of Bede
Av Allen J. Frantzen, John Hines
Häftad, 2007
577 kr
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The essays in this book use the nine-line poem known as ""Cædmon's Hymn"" as a lens on the world of Bede's Ecclesiastical History. A cowherd who is given a divine gift, Cædmon retells the great narratives of Christian history in the traditional form of Anglo-Saxon verse. An immense amount has been …
Perspectives on the Old Saxon Heliand
Introductory and Critical Essays, with an Edition of the Leipzig Fragment
Av Valentine A. Pakis, Valentine A. Pakis
Häftad, 2010
577 kr
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Heliand, the Old Saxon poem based on the life of Christ in the Gospels, has become more available to students of Anglo-Saxon culture as its influence has reached into a wider range of fields from history to linguistics, literature, and religion. In Perspectives on the Old Saxon Heliand, Valentine …
Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World
Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter
Av Sarah Larratt Keefer, Karen Louise Jolly m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
577 kr
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Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter is edited by Sarah Larratt Keefer, Karen Louise Jolly, and Catherine E. Karkov and is the third and final volume of an ambitious research initiative begun in 1999 concerned with the image of the cross, …
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
A Close Verse Translation
Av Larry D. Benson, Larry D. Benson
Häftad, 2012
170 kr
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In this poem, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious green warrior. In a struggle to uphold his oath along this …
Isidorean Perceptions of Order
The Exeter Book Riddles and Medieval Latin Enigmata
Häftad, 2015
577 kr
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This book discusses the considerable influence exerted by Isidore's Etymologiae on the compilation of early medieval enigmata. Either in the form of thematic clusters or pairs, Isidorean encyclopedic patterns are observed not only in major Latin riddle collections in verse but can also be detected …
Book of Emperors
A Translation of the Middle High German Kaiserchronik
Häftad, 2013
577 kr
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The Kaiserchronik (c.1152-1165) is the first verse chronicle to have been written in a language other than Latin. This story recounts the exploits of the Roman, Byzantine, Carolingian, and Holy Roman kings and rulers, from the establishment of Rome to the start of the Second Crusade. As an early …
Old English Poem Seasons for Fasting
A Critical Editoin
Häftad, 2014
577 kr
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Seasons for Fasting, a late Old English poem probably composed in the early eleventh century, focuses on proper fasting observances in England. This poem, composed in eight-line stanzas, survives only in a sixteenth-century transcript made by the antiquary Laurence Nowell. With its topics, …
Beowulf and the Grendel-Kin
Politics and Poetry in Eleventh-Century England
Av Helen Damico
Häftad, 2014
577 kr
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Bede and Aethelthryth
An Introduction to Christian Latin Poetics
Häftad, 2016
577 kr
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Bede and Aethelthryth asks why Christians in Britain around the year 700 enjoyed Latin poetry. What did they see in it? What did they get from it? This book attempts to reconstruct the horizon of expectation of a highly learned, Latin-speaking nun as she encounters a fifty-line poem by the …
Via Crucis
Essays on Early Medieval Sources and Ideas
Av Charles D. Wright, Thomas N. Hall m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
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This book originated as a series of papers delivered at a Symposium on Irish and Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture in Honor of J. E. Cross, held in conjunction with the 30th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo in May 1996. The purpose of that symposium was to bring together a number …
Naked Before God
Uncovering the Body in Anglo-Saxon England
Av Benjamin C. Withers, Jonathan Wilcox
Häftad, 2003
572 kr
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At different times and in different places, the human form has been regarded in different ways. The Ancient Greeks thought it was the most admirable subject for art, whereas early Christians often viewed it as lascivious in our post-lapsarian state. With illustrations taken from manuscripts, …
Cross and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England
Studies in Honor of George Hardin Brown
Av Karen L. Jolly, Catherine E. Karkov m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
572 kr
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As Volume One in the Sancta Crux/Halig Rod series, this collection of new research offers fascinating glimpses into how the way the cross, the central image of Christianity in the Anglo-Saxon period, was textualized, reified, visualized, and performed. The cross in early medieval England was so …
