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Author : Judith N. Garde
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0859913074
Dr Garde questions modern interpretations of the nature and purpose of Old English religious poetry.
Author : James H. Wilson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111654720
Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 1248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780812248470
Includes the Junius manuscript, Exeter book, Vercelli book, Beowulf and Judith, metrical psalms of Paris Psalter and the meters of Boethius, poems of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle, riddles, charms, and a number of minor additional poems.
Author : Joseph St. John
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040077658
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 : Janet Schrunk Ericksen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487507466
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 : Michael Fox,Manish Sharma
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442620261
It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the Bible in the medieval world. For the Anglo-Saxons, literary culture emerged from sustained and intensive biblical study. Further, at least to judge from the Old English texts which survive, the Old Testament was the primary influence, both in terms of content and modes of interpretation. Though the Old Testament was only partially translated into Old English, recent studies have shown how completely interconnected Anglo-Latin and Old English literary traditions are. Old English Literature and the Old Testament considers the importance of the Old Testament from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, from comparative to intertextual and historical. Though the essays focus on individual works, authors, or trends, including the Interrogationes Sigewulfi, Genesis A, and Daniel, each ultimately speaks to the vernacular corpus as a whole, suggesting approaches and methodologies for further study.
Author : Colin A. Ireland
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501513930
Seventh-century Gaelic law-tracts delineate professional poets (filid) who earned high social status through formal training. These poets cooperated with the Church to create an innovative bilingual intellectual culture in Old Gaelic and Latin. Bede described Anglo-Saxon students who availed themselves of free education in Ireland at this culturally dynamic time. Gaelic scholars called sapientes (“wise ones”) produced texts in Old Gaelic and Latin that demonstrate how Anglo-Saxon students were influenced by contact with Gaelic ecclesiastical and secular scholarship. Seventh-century Northumbria was ruled for over 50 years by Gaelic-speaking kings who could access Gaelic traditions. Gaelic literary traditions provide the closest analogues for Bede’s description of Cædmon’s production of Old English poetry. This ground-breaking study displays the transformations created by the growth of vernacular literatures and bilingual intellectual cultures. Gaelic missionaries and educational opportunities helped shape the Northumbrian “Golden Age”, its manuscripts, hagiography, and writings of Aldhelm and Bede.
Author : Paul G. Remley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521474542
An extended study of the Old Testament poems of the Junius collection as a group.
Author : David Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199558155
Between Medieval Men is a radical new study of same-sex relations (both erotic and non-erotic) in the Anglo-Saxon period. David Clark's nuanced approach to gender and sexuality seeks to step outside modern cultural assumptions in order to explore the diversity and complexity that he shows to be characteristic of the period.
Author : Mary R. Rambaran-Olm
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843843665
Edition, translation and full critical study of a hitherto marginalised text, bringing it to full attention for the first time. The Old English poem known popularly as the Descent into Hell, found on folios 119v to 121v of the Exeter Book, has to date received little critical attention, perhaps owing to various contextual problems and lacunae on theleaves that contain it. This first full-length study offers a full account of the poem, together with an edition of the text and facing translation. It aims to resolve some of the poem's vexing issues and provides a varietyof possible interpretations of the poem. The in-depth literary analysis seeks to enrich modern scholarly perceptions of the poem, suggest a more appropriate title, and contribute to continued scholarly discussion and analysis of the Exeter Book and its compilation. It provides a guide towards understanding the poem's main theme, presents the text in light of its position in ecclesiastical history, and sheds fresh light into its place and significance within the corpus of Old English poetry. M.R. Rambaran-Olm received her PhD from the University of Glasgow.
Author : Michael D. Cherniss
Publisher : Hague, Mouton
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008805130
Author : Robert Rix
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317589693
This book examines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a focus on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The pagan North was an imaginative region, which attracted a number of conflicting interpretations. To Christian Europe, the pagan North was an abject Other, but it also symbolized a place from which ancestral strength and energy derived. Rix maps how these discourses informed ‘national’ legends of ancestral origins, showing how an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend can be found in works by several familiar writers including Jordanes, Bede, ‘Fredegar’, Paul the Deacon, Freculph, and Æthelweard. The book investigates how legends of northern warriors were first created in classical texts and since re-calibrated to fit different medieval understandings of identity and ethnicity. Among other things, the ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ tale was exploited to promote a legacy of ‘barbarian’ vigor that could withstand the negative cultural effects of Roman civilization. This volume employs a variety of perspectives cutting across the disciplines of poetry, history, rhetoric, linguistics, and archaeology. After years of intense critical interest in medieval attitudes towards the classical world, Africa, and the East, this first book-length study of ‘the North’ will inspire new debates and repositionings in medieval studies.
Author : R. M. Liuzza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134829859
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 : Andrew Hass,David Jasper,Elisabeth Jay
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
Page : 909 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199271979
A defining volume of essays in which leading international scholars apply an interdisciplinary approach to the long and evolving relationship between English Literature and Theology.
Author : Irina Dumitrescu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781108416863
Reveals the rich emotional experience of teaching and learning as revealed in Anglo-Saxon literature.
