Anglo Saxon England Volume 26

Author : Michael Lapidge,Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521592526

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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 26 by Michael Lapidge,Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes Pdf

In the present volume, the two essays that frame the book provide exciting insight into the mental world of the Anglo-Saxons by showing on the one hand how they understood the processes of reading and assimilating knowledge and, on the other, how they conceived of time and the passage of the seasons. In the field of art history, two essays treat two of the best-known Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. The lavish symbol pages in the 'Book of Durrow' are shown to reflect a programmatic exposition of the meaning of Easter, and a posthumous essay by a distinguished art historian shows how the Anglo-Saxon illustrations added to the 'Galba Psalter' are best to be understood in the context of the programme of learning instituted by King Alfred. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Author : Michael Lapidge,Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521802105

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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 30 by Michael Lapidge,Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes Pdf

The pre-eminence of Anglo-Saxon England in its field can be seen as a result of its encouragement of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. Thus this volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface, in which it is shown that the unusually formulaic nature of Boniface's letters is best understood as a reflex of the saint's familiarity with vernacular composition. A wide-ranging historical contextualization of The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle illuminates the way English readers of the later tenth century may have defined themselves in contradistinction to the monstrous unknown, and a fresh reading of the gendering of female portraiture in a famous illustrated manuscript of the Psychomachia of Prudentius (CCCC 23) shows the independent ways in which Anglo-Saxon illustrators were able to respond to their models. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book; and a full index of the contents of volumes 26-30 is provided. (Previous indexes have appeared in volumes 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25.)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:1180924195

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Anglo-Saxon England by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Lapidge,Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521571472

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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 25 by Michael Lapidge,Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes Pdf

This volume brings to light material evidence to further our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England.

Author : Gerald P. Dyson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783273669

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Priests and Their Books in Late Anglo-Saxon England by Gerald P. Dyson Pdf

Fresh perspectives on the English clergy, their books, and the wider Anglo-Saxon church.

Author : Scott Thompson Smith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442644861

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Land and Book by Scott Thompson Smith Pdf

Land and Book places a variety of texts in a dynamic conversation with the procedures and documents of land tenure, showing how its social practice led to innovation across written genres in both Latin and Old English.

Author : Peter Clemoes,Michael Lapidge,Simon Keynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521332028

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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 12 by Peter Clemoes,Michael Lapidge,Simon Keynes Pdf

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 of no less than three discoveries augments our corpus of manuscript evidence. The nature of Old English poetry is illuminated, and a useful summary of the editorial treatment of textual problems in Beowulf is provided. A re-examination of the accounts of the settlement in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle yields insights into the processes of Anglo-Saxon learned historiography and oral tradition. A thorough-going analysis of an under-studied major work, Bald's Leechbook, demonstrates that the compiler, perhaps in King Alfred's reign, translated selections from a wide range of Latin texts in composing a well-organized treatise directed against the diseases prevalent in his time. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Author : Malasree Home
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783270019

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The Peterborough Version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Malasree Home Pdf

An examination of the linguistic and cultural construction of one of the texts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

Author : Veronika Wieser,Vincent Eltschinger,Johann Heiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110597745

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Cultures of Eschatology by Veronika Wieser,Vincent Eltschinger,Johann Heiss Pdf

Apokalyptische Vorstellungen von Untergang und Verheißung, von letzten Dingen und äußersten Wahrheiten, von Endgültigem und noch nie Dagewesenem begleiten die europäische Kulturgeschichte seit mehr als 2000 Jahren. Die vorliegende Reihe Kulturgeschichte der Apokalypse legt eine heterogene und interdisziplinäre Durchmessung des Endzeitdenkens aus historisch-kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive vor. Sie betont die einzigartigen Verhaftungen apokalyptischer Diskurse in jeweils zeitgenössischen, epistemischen, medialen und politischen Kontexten und plädiert für den Mut zum Bruch – zum Bruch mit homogenen Lesarten, linearen Denktraditionen und lediglich formalen Rückführungen auf einen apokalyptischen Ursprung. Dabei öffnet sie den Blick in andere religiöse wie geographische Kontexte und lädt zum interdisziplinären Vergleich ein.

Author : Christine Rauer
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843843474

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The Old English Martyrology by Christine Rauer Pdf

New edition with facing-page translation of a highly significant and influential Old English text.

Author : Alison Hudson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Bishops
ISBN : 9781783276851

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Bishop Æthelwold, His Followers, and Saints' Cults in Early Medieval England by Alison Hudson Pdf

An exploration of how Æthelwold and those he influenced deployed the promotion of saints to implement religious reform.

Author : Rebecca Brackmann
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843843184

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The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England by Rebecca Brackmann Pdf

The writings of two influential Elizabethan thinkers testify to the influence of Old English law and literature on Tudor society and self-image. Full of fresh and illuminating insights into a way of looking at the English past in the sixteenth century... a book with the potential to deepen and transform our understanding of Tudor attitudes to ethnic identity and the national past. Philip Schwyzer, University of Exeter. Laurence Nowell (1530-c.1570), author of the first dictionary of Old English, and William Lambarde (1536-1601), Nowell's protégé and eventually the first editor of theOld English Laws, are key figures in Elizabethan historical discourses and in its political and literary society; through their work the period between the Germanic migrations and the Norman Conquest came to be regarded as a foundational time for Elizabethan England, overlapping with and contributing to contemporary debates on the shape of Elizabethan English language. Their studies took different strategies in demonstrating the role of early medieval history in Elizabethan national -- even imperial -- identity, while in Lambarde's legal writings Old English law codes become identical with the "ancient laws" that underpinned contemporary common law. Their efforts contradict the assumption that Anglo-Saxon studies did not effectively participate in Tudor nationalism outside of Protestant polemic; instead, it was a vital part of making history "English". Their work furthers our understanding of both the history of medieval studies and the importance of early Anglo-Saxon studies to Tudor nationalism. Rebecca Brackmann is Assistant Professor of English, Lincoln Memorial University.

Author : Steven J. A. Breeze
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Beowulf
ISBN : 9781843846451

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Performance in Beowulf and Other Old English Poems by Steven J. A. Breeze Pdf

Acts of performance, such as music, storytelling, and poetry recital, have made significant contributions to the rediscovery and widening popularity of Old English poetry. However, while these performances capture the imagination, they also influence an audience's view of the world of the original poems, even to propagating certain assumptions, particularly those to do with performance practices. By stripping away these assumptions, this book aims to uncover the ways in which representations of performance in Old English poetry are intimately associated with poetic production and fundamental cultural concerns. Through an examination of Beowulf, diverse wisdom poems, and the "artist" poems Deor and Widsith, it proposes that poets constructed an imaginary domain of "poetic performance", which negotiated tensions between early medieval creativity and core social beliefs. It also shows how the poems' relationship with oral methods of composition and circulation weakened in later medieval poetry as both language and poetic form altered. Overall, the book explores what depictions of performance within these texts can tell us about early medieval conceptualisations, processes, and practices, in the poetic imagination and in wider culture. Through an analysis of Eddic poetry and Laȝamon's Brut, it also highlights a tradition of "poetic performance" in English poetics.

Author : Stephanie Clark
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487501983

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Compelling God by Stephanie Clark Pdf

In Compelling God, Stephanie Clark examines the relationship between prayer, gift giving, the self, and community in Anglo-Saxon England.

Author : Susan Irvine,Winfried Rudolf
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487514440

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Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture by Susan Irvine,Winfried Rudolf Pdf

Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture counters the generally received wisdom that early medieval childhood and adolescence were an unremittingly bleak experience. The contributors analyse representations of children and their education in Old English, Old Norse and Anglo-Latin writings, including hagiography, heroic poetry, riddles, legal documents, philosophical prose and elegies. Within and across these linguistic and generic boundaries some key themes emerge: the habits and expectations of name-giving, expressions of childhood nostalgia, the role of uneducated parents, and the religious zeal and rebelliousness of youth. After decades of study dominated by adult gender studies, Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture rebalances our understanding of family life in the Anglo-Saxon era by reconstructing the lives of medieval children and adolescents through their literary representation.