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Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England
Divina in Laude Voluntas
Inbunden, 2017
1041 kr
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Biblical poetry, written between the fourth and eleventh centuries, is an eclectic body of literature that disseminated popular knowledge of the Bible across Europe. Composed mainly in Latin and subsequently in Old English, biblical versification has much to tell us about the interpretations, genre …
New Readings in the Vercelli Book
Av Samantha Zacher, Samantha Zacher m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1186 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 …
Old English Metre
An Introduction
Av Jun Terasawa
Häftad, 2011
331 kr
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Old English Metre offers an essential framework for the critical analysis of metrical structures and interpretations in Old English literature. Jun Terasawa's comprehensive introductory text covers the basics of Old English metre and reviews the current research in the field, emphasizing the …
Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England Up to 1100
Av Helmut Gneuss, Michael Lapidge
E-bok, 2014
1173 kr
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Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts is the first publication to list every surviving manuscript or manuscript fragment written in Anglo-Saxon England between the seventh and the eleventh centuries or imported into the country during that time. Each of the 1,291 entries in Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge’s …
Politics of Language
Byrhtferth, Aelfric, and the Multilingual Identity of the Benedictine Reform
E-bok, 2015
450 kr
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Old English literature thrived in late tenth-century England. Its success was the result of a concerted effort by the leaders of the Benedictine Reform movement to encourage both widespread literacy and a simple literary style. The manuscripts written in this era are the source for the majority of …
Politics of Language
Byrhtferth, Aelfric, and the Multilingual Identity of the Benedictine Reform
E-bok, 2015
472 kr
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Old English literature thrived in late tenth-century England. Its success was the result of a concerted effort by the leaders of the Benedictine Reform movement to encourage both widespread literacy and a simple literary style. The manuscripts written in this era are the source for the majority of …
Weaving Words and Binding Bodies
The Poetics of Human Experience in Old English Literature
Av Megan Cavell
E-bok, 2016
994 kr
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References to weaving and binding are ubiquitous in Anglo-Saxon literature. Several hundred instances of such imagery occur in the poetic corpus, invoked in connection with objects, people, elemental forces, and complex abstract concepts.Weaving Words and Binding Bodies presents the first …
Weaving Words and Binding Bodies
The Poetics of Human Experience in Old English Literature
Av Megan Cavell
E-bok, 2016
1074 kr
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References to weaving and binding are ubiquitous in Anglo-Saxon literature. Several hundred instances of such imagery occur in the poetic corpus, invoked in connection with objects, people, elemental forces, and complex abstract concepts.Weaving Words and Binding Bodies presents the first …
Joinings
Compound Words in Old English Literature
E-bok, 2016
919 kr
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The first comprehensive study of the use of compound words in Old English poetry, homilies, and philosophy, Joinings explores the effect of compounds on style, pace, clarity, and genre in Anglo-Saxon vernacular literature. Jonathan Davis-Secord demonstrates how compounds affect the pacing of …
Joinings
Compound Words in Old English Literature
E-bok, 2016
993 kr
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The first comprehensive study of the use of compound words in Old English poetry, homilies, and philosophy, Joinings explores the effect of compounds on style, pace, clarity, and genre in Anglo-Saxon vernacular literature. Jonathan Davis-Secord demonstrates how compounds affect the pacing of …
Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Av Rebecca Stephenson, Emily Thornbury
E-bok, 2016
993 kr
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For the Anglo-Saxons, Latin was a language of choice that revealed a multitude of beliefs and desires about themselves as subjects, believers, scholars, and artists. In this groundbreaking collection, ten leading scholars explore the intersections between identity and Latin language and literature …
Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Av Rebecca Stephenson, Emily Thornbury
E-bok, 2016
993 kr
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For the Anglo-Saxons, Latin was a language of choice that revealed a multitude of beliefs and desires about themselves as subjects, believers, scholars, and artists. In this groundbreaking collection, ten leading scholars explore the intersections between identity and Latin language and literature …
Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England Up to 1100
Av Helmut Gneuss, Michael Lapidge
Häftad, 2015
1186 kr
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Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts is the first publication to list every surviving manuscript or manuscript fragment written in Anglo-Saxon England between the seventh and the eleventh centuries or imported into the country during that time. Each of the 1,291 entries in Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge’s …
Weaving Words and Binding Bodies
The Poetics of Human Experience in Old English Literature
Av Megan Cavell
Inbunden, 2016
863 kr
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References to weaving and binding are ubiquitous in Anglo-Saxon literature. Several hundred instances of such imagery occur in the poetic corpus, invoked in connection with objects, people, elemental forces, and complex abstract concepts.Weaving Words and Binding Bodies presents the first …
Joinings
Compound Words in Old English Literature
Inbunden, 2016
799 kr
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The first comprehensive study of the use of compound words in Old English poetry, homilies, and philosophy, Joinings explores the effect of compounds on style, pace, clarity, and genre in Anglo-Saxon vernacular literature. Jonathan Davis-Secord demonstrates how compounds affect the pacing of …
Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Av Rebecca Stephenson, Emily Thornbury
Inbunden, 2016
799 kr
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For the Anglo-Saxons, Latin was a language of choice that revealed a multitude of beliefs and desires about themselves as subjects, believers, scholars, and artists. In this groundbreaking collection, ten leading scholars explore the intersections between identity and Latin language and literature …
England in Europe
English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, C.1000-c.1150
Inbunden, 2017
1154 kr
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In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written for Emma the wife of the Æthelred II and Cnut, and The Life of King Edward, written for Edith the wife of Edward the Confessor. Tyler offers a bold literary and historical analysis of both texts and …
Old English Metre
An Introduction
Av Jun Terasawa
Inbunden, 2011
621 kr
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Old English Metre offers an essential framework for the critical analysis of metrical structures and interpretations in Old English literature. Jun Terasawa's comprehensive introductory text covers the basics of Old English metre and reviews the current research in the field, emphasizing the …
From Lawmen to Plowmen
Anglo-Saxon Legal Tradition and the School of Langland
Inbunden, 2014
831 kr
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The reappearance of alliterative verse in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries remains one of the most puzzling issues in the literary history of medieval England. In From Lawmen to Plowmen, Stephen M. Yeager offers a fresh, insightful explanation for the alliterative structure of William …
Traditional Subjectivities
The Old English Poetics of Mentality
Av Britt Mize
Inbunden, 2013
1154 kr
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Why is Old English poetry so preoccupied with mental actions and perspectives, giving readers access to minds of antagonists as freely as to those of protagonists? Why are characters sometimes called into being for no apparent reason other than to embody a psychological state? Britt Mize provides …
Land and Book
Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England
Inbunden, 2012
863 kr
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In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex range of conceptual values that Anglo-Saxons …
Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture
Inbunden, 2016
976 kr
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Most studies of Jews in medieval England begin with the year 1066, when Jews first arrived on English soil. Yet the absence of Jews in England before the conquest did not prevent early English authors from writing obsessively about them. Using material from the writings of the Church Fathers, …
King's Body
Burial and Succession in Late Anglo-Saxon England
Inbunden, 2014
744 kr
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The King’s Body investigates the role of royal bodies, funerals, and graves in English succession debates from the death of Alfred the Great in 899 through the Norman Conquest in 1066. Using contemporary texts and archaeological evidence, Nicole Marafioti reconstructs the political activity that …
Politics of Language
Byrhtferth, Aelfric, and the Multilingual Identity of the Benedictine Reform
Inbunden, 2015
702 kr
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Old English literature thrived in late tenth-century England. Its success was the result of a concerted effort by the leaders of the Benedictine Reform movement to encourage both widespread literacy and a simple literary style. The manuscripts written in this era are the source for the majority of …
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 …
New Readings in the Vercelli Book
Av Samantha Zacher, Andy Orchard
E-bok, 2009
1518 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Traditional Subjectivities
The Old English Poetics of Mentality
Av Britt Mize
E-bok, 2012
1331 kr
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Why is Old English poetry so preoccupied with mental actions and perspectives, giving readers access to minds of antagonists as freely as to those of protagonists? Why are characters sometimes called into being for no apparent reason other than to embody a psychological state? Britt Mize provides …
Body Legal in Barbarian Law
Av Lisi Oliver
E-bok, 2011
537 kr
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The sixth to ninth centuries saw a flowering of written laws among the early Germanic tribes. These laws include tables of fines for personal injury, designed to offer a legal, non-violent alternative to blood feud. Using these personal injury tariffs, The Body Legal in Barbarian Law examines a …
Land and Book
Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England
E-bok, 2013
1125 kr
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In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex range of conceptual values that Anglo-Saxons …
Land and Book
Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England
E-bok, 2012
1125 kr
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In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex range of conceptual values that Anglo-Saxons …
