Ms Junius 11 And Its Poetry

Author : Carl Kears
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781914049132

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MS Junius 11 and Its Poetry by Carl Kears Pdf

A fresh close reading of the texts of one of the four surviving major manuscripts of Old English poetry, reappraising Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 11 to discover some of the preoccupations of its compliers. Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Junius 11 is one of the four major manuscripts of Old English poetry to survive and the only one of these to have had a planned sequence of illuminations. Junius 11 is made up of different poems - Genesis A, Genesis B, Exodus, Daniel and Christ and Satan - compiled to resemble a long narrative that represents salvation history from its violent origins to its Last Days. While the poems draw inspiration from biblical, apocryphal and commentary traditions, they combine in the manuscript to create powerful effects that can also be understood through an appreciation of the distinctive craft and complexity of early medieval vernacular verse. But can the language of the poetry within the manuscript tell us anything about the aims of the Junius 11 project, or the preoccupations of its compilers? This book approaches Junius 11 as an ambitious poetic endeavour that was designed to offer counsel through the medium of Old English verbal art. Tracing thematic language across and between the poems, and offering close readings of them in their manuscript context, MS Junius 11 and its Poetry argues that it is early medieval political ideas represented by the Old English words ræd (good counsel) and unræd (ill counsel) that emerge as the key components underlying the central conflicts of the history of humankind the makers of this manuscript sought to create. The poems themselves, by giving us many examples of rulers and leaders falling to ruin, have the potential to offer their own ræd to those who may have found themselves in relatable positions. But Junius 11 demands work for such gifts. Its poems generate impressions cumulatively and collectively, offering instruction to those who might build connections across pages, demanding audiences become attentive and active readers so that they might find solace and advice in a world that moves towards destruction.

Author : R. M. Liuzza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134829859

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The Poems of MS Junius 11 by R. M. Liuzza Pdf

Taken from the same manuscript as Cynewulf, the Junius 11 poems-Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan-comprise a series of redacted Old English works that have been traditionally presented as the work of Bede's Caedmon. Medieval scholars have concluded that the four poems were composed by more than one author and later edited by Junius in 1655. All of the poems are notable for their Christian content. Apart from its focus on the Junius 11 manuscript, this collection of essays is also important as a study of how to read, edit, and define any medieval literary text.

Author : Caedmon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1941-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231515952

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The Junius Manuscript by Caedmon Pdf

The Junius Manuscript

Author : Janet Schrunk Ericksen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487507466

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Reading Old English Biblical Poetry by Janet Schrunk Ericksen Pdf

Reading Old English Biblical Poetry considers the Junius 11 manuscript, the only surviving illustrated book of Old English poetry, in terms of its earliest readers and their multiple strategies of reading and making meaning. Junius 11 begins with the creation story and ends with the final vanquishing of Satan by Jesus. The manuscript is both a continuous whole and a collection with discontinuities and functionally independent pieces. The chapters of Reading Old English Biblical Poetry propose multiple models for reader engagement with the texts in this manuscript, including selective and sequential reading, reading in juxtaposition, and reading in contexts within and outside of the pages of Junius 11. The study is framed by particular attention to the materiality of the manuscript and how that might have informed its early reception, and it broadens considerations of reading beyond those of the manuscript's compiler and possible patron. As a book, Junius 11 reflects a rich and varied culture of reading that existed in and beyond houses of God in England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and it points to readers who had enough experience to select and find wisdom, narrative pleasure, and a diversity of other things within this or any book's contents.

Author : Bernard J. Muir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 1851243305

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A Digital Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Junius 11 by Bernard J. Muir Pdf

Of the four major surviving manuscripts of Anglo-Saxon poetry, MS. Junius 11 is the only one which is illustrated. It contains four poems based on the Old Testament: Genesis A and B, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan. This ground-breaking CD-ROM contains the entire tenth century manuscript, a searchable transcription, translation, detailed commentary, and high resolution images of all the drawings and decorated initials.

Author : Joseph St. John
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040077665

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Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry by Joseph St. John Pdf

Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related myth in the Old Testament poems Genesis A and Genesis B, as well as in Beowulf, a secular heroic narrative. The book explores how the Genesis poems resort to the Christian exegetical tradition and draw on secular social norms to deliver their biblically derived and related narratives in a manner relevant to their Christian Anglo-Saxon audiences. In this book it is suggested that these elements work in unison, and that the two Genesis poems function coherently in the context of the Junius 11 manuscript. Moreover, the book explores recourse to Genesis-derived myth in Beowulf, and points to important similarities between this text and the Genesis poems. It is therefore shown that while Beowulf differs from the Genesis poems in several respects, it belongs in a corpus where religious verse enjoys prominence.

Author : Seiichi Suzuki
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110788174

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The Miniatures and Meters of the Old English Genesis, MS Junius 11 by Seiichi Suzuki Pdf

The Old English Genesis is the sole illustrated Anglo-Saxon poem. In full appreciation of this unique concurrent execution of visualization and versification in a single manuscript, this multidisciplinary work explores the pictorial (Vol. 1) and the metrical (Vol. 2) organization from both synchronic–structural and diachronic–comparative perspectives. Among the most significant findings of each volume are: The first twenty-two images in the Old English Genesis originated on the whole from the Touronian Bibles; and the underlying classical Old English and Old Saxon meters were interactively reshaped through mutual adaptation and recomposition aimed at their firm integration into a synthesized Old English Genesis. While each part is solidly embedded in the respective scholarly tradition and pursues its own disciplinary concerns and problematics, vigorous formal and cognitive reasoning and theorizing run commonly through both. By way of mutual corroboration and integration, the twin volumes eventually converge on the hypothesis that the earliest portion of the extant Old English Genesis (lines 1–966) derived from the corresponding episodes of an illustrated Touronian Old Saxon Genesis in both pictorial and metrical terms.

Author : Francis Adelbert Blackburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39015019756645

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Exodus and Daniel by Francis Adelbert Blackburn Pdf

Author : Francis A. Blackburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436520347

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Exodus and Daniel: Two Old English Poems Preserved in Ms. Junius 11 in the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford, England (1907) by Francis A. Blackburn Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Caedmon,Francis A. Blackburn
Publisher : Trieste Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0649148568

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Exodus and Daniel by Caedmon,Francis A. Blackburn Pdf

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Author : Francis Adelbert Blackburn,Francis Adelbert Caedmon
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1358327335

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Exodus and Daniel by Francis Adelbert Blackburn,Francis Adelbert Caedmon Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1470194325

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Codex Junius 11 by Anonim Pdf

The popular name of the codex is the Caedmon manuscript, after an early theory that the poems it contains might be the work of Caedmon; the name has stuck even though the theory is no longer considered credible. In more recent works it is commonly referred to either by its Bodleian designation MS Junius 11, or as the Junius manuscript or Codex Junius; 'Junius' here is Franciscus Junius, who published the first edition of its contents in 1655.It has been established on palaeographical grounds that compilation of the manuscript began c. AD 1000. Recent work has suggested an earlier, narrow window for the likely compilation date to 930-960, based on a coincidence of the style of illustrations.The compilation was in two stages: the initial version of the manuscript contained Genesis, Exodus, and Daniel, and was the work of a single scribe. Later the final poem, Christ and Satan, was added by several other scribes.

Author : Caedmon Caedmon
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020034092

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Exodus and Daniel; Two Old English Poems Preserved in Ms. Junius 11 in the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford, England by Caedmon Caedmon Pdf

This book features two Old English poems, Exodus and Daniel, preserved in MS Junius 11 in the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford, England. Both poems present biblical narratives, detailing the stories of Exodus and Daniel from the Old Testament. This edition includes translations of both poems into modern English, making them more accessible to contemporary readers. This book is an ideal choice for those fascinated by biblical poetry and the evolution of the English language. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Tristan Major
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487500542

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Undoing Babel by Tristan Major Pdf

Undoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel narrative amongst Anglo-Saxon authors from late antiquity to the eleventh century.

Author : Ruth Wehlau
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110661972

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Darkness, Depression, and Descent in Anglo-Saxon England by Ruth Wehlau Pdf

This collection of essays examines the motifs of darkness, depression, and descent in both literal and figurative manifestations within a variety of Anglo-Saxon texts, including the Old English Consolation of Philosophy, Beowulf, Guthlac, The Junius Manuscript, The Wonders of the East, and The Battle of Maldon. Essays deal with such topics as cosmic emptiness, descent into the grave, and recurrent grief. In their analyses, the essays reveal the breadth of this imagery in Anglo-Saxon literature as it is used to describe thought and emotion, as well as the limits to knowledge and perception. The volume investigates the intersection between the burgeoning interest in trauma studies and darkness and the representation of the mind or of emotional experience within Anglo-Saxon literature.