Textual Identities In Early Medieval England

Author : Rebecca Stephenson,Jacqueline Fay,Renée R. Trilling
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843846246

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Textual Identities in Early Medieval England by Rebecca Stephenson,Jacqueline Fay,Renée R. Trilling Pdf

New approaches to a range of Old English texts. Throughout her career, Professor Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe has focused on the often-overlooked details of early medieval textual life, moving from the smallest punctum to a complete reframing of the humanities' biggest questions. In her hands, the traditional tools of medieval studies -- philology, paleography, and close reading - become a fulcrum to reveal the unspoken worldviews animating early medieval textual production. The essays collected here both honour and reflect her influence as a scholar and teacher. They cover Latin works, such as the writings of Prudentius and Bede, along with vernacular prose texts: the Pastoral Care, the OE Boethius, the law codes, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and Ælfric's Lives of Saints. The Old English poetic corpus is also considered, with a focus on less-studied works, including Genesis and Fortunes of Men. This diverse array of texts provides a foundation for the volume's analysis of agency, identity, and subjectivity in early medieval England; united in their methodology, the articles in this collection all question received wisdom and challenge critical consensus on key issues of humanistic inquiry, among them affect and embodied cognition, sovereignty and power, and community formation.

Author : Allen J. Frantzen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781843839088

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Food, Eating and Identity in Early Medieval England by Allen J. Frantzen Pdf

A fresh approach to the implications of obtaining, preparing, and consuming food, concentrating on the little-investigated routines of everyday life. Food in the Middle Ages usually evokes images of feasting, speeches, and special occasions, even though most evidence of food culture consists of fragments of ordinary things such as knives, cooking pots, and grinding stones, which are rarely mentioned by contemporary writers. This book puts daily life and its objects at the centre of the food world. It brings together archaeological and textual evidence to show how words and implements associated with food contributed to social identity at all levels of Anglo-Saxon society. It also looks at the networks which connected fields to kitchens and linked rural centres to trading sites. Fasting, redesigned field systems, and the place offish in the diet are examined in a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary inquiry into the power of food to reveal social complexity. Allen J. Frantzen is Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago.

Author : Elaine M. Treharne,Susan Rosser
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015061160829

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Early Medieval English Texts and Interpretations by Elaine M. Treharne,Susan Rosser Pdf

Twenty papers by students of Scragg (U. of Leicester) and other scholars of Anglo-Saxon from across Europe and the US pivot on his particular interests, among them editing and the transmission of texts, source studies, and interpretations of Old and transitional English poetry and prose. Readers are expected to be literate in Old English. Annotatio

Author : William O. Frazer,Andrew Tyrell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441195029

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Social Identity in Early Medieval Britain by William O. Frazer,Andrew Tyrell Pdf

Social identity is a concept od increasing importance in the social sciences. Here, the concept is applied to the often atheoretical realm of medieval studies. Each contributor focuses on a particular topic of early medieval identity - ethnicity, national identity, social location, subjectivity/personhood, political organization, kiship, the body, gender, age, proximity/regionality, memory and ideological systems. The result is a pioneering vision of medieval social identity and a challenge to some of the received general wisdoms about this period.

Author : Alison Hudson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Chris Bishop
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443802772

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Text and Transmission in Medieval Europe by Chris Bishop Pdf

Scholars of the Middle Ages are familiar with the notion of text as an inscribed document, whether that inscription occurs upon stone, metal, vellum or textiles, but the concept of inscription and, therefore, of text, can be extended to cover a range of evidence. Thus, one might speak of archaeological remains, land use patterns, traditional stories, remnant practices and revenant beliefs as constituting texts in their own right. Broadly defined then, text is the means by which we engage with the historical subject. The medievalist, however, faces particular constraints in interpreting these texts through the agencies of their transmission. Questions such as who authored these texts, when and why, intersect with problems of transcription, translation and redaction to inform a complex discourse. The majority of the chapters in this book started life as papers presented at a conference entitled Text and Transmission in Early Medieval Europe and the title of this book ultimately derives from that theme. The subjects these chapters deal with range in geography from Ireland through to Byzantium, and cover almost a millennium of European history, but they are united in their effort to prise from their subjects some truths about texts, transmission and the critical literacies needed to interpret both.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780198757573

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Materializing Englishness in Early Medieval Texts by Anonim Pdf

The aim of this book is to restore to the story of Englishness the lively material interactions between words, bodies, plants, stones, metals, and soil, among other things, that would have characterized it for the early medieval English themselves. In particular, each chapter demonstrates howa productive collapse, or fusion, between place and history happens not only in the intellectual realm, in ideas, but is also a material concern, becoming enfleshed in encounters between early medieval bodies and a host of material entities. Through readings of texts in a wide variety of genresincluding hagiography, heroic poetry, and medical and historical works, the book argues that Englishness during this period is an embodied identity emergent at the frontier of material and textual interactions that serve productively to occlude history, religion, and geography. The early medievalEnglish body thus results from the rich encounter between the lived environment--climate, soil, landscape features, plants--and the textual-discursive realm that both determines what that environment means and is also itself determined by the material constraints of everyday life.

Author : Emily Dolmans
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9781843845683

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Writing Regional Identities in Medieval England by Emily Dolmans Pdf

An examination of how regional identities are reflected in texts from medieval England.

Author : Mary Clayton,Alice Jorgensen,Juliet Mullins
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Civilization, Anglo-Saxon
ISBN : 0866985646

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England, Ireland, and the Insular World by Mary Clayton,Alice Jorgensen,Juliet Mullins Pdf

ISAS Dublin 2013. England, Ireland and the Insular World: Textual and Material Connections in the Early Middle Ages is a collection of twelve essays related to the theme of the 2013 conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, 'Insular Cultures'. Contributors cover a broad range of topics, from early medieval agriculture in Ireland and England, to sculpture, manuscript illumination and script, homilies, hagiography, aristocratic gift-giving, relics, calendars, Beowulf, and Anglo-Saxon perceptions of the Celtic peoples, considering connections, parallels and differences between Anglo-Saxon England and its insular neighbors. The volume will be of interest to all those working on Early Medieval history, literature, archaeology, liturgy, art, and manuscripts.

Author : Alice Jorgensen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843847052

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Emotional Practice in Old English Literature by Alice Jorgensen Pdf

An examination of how emotions were practised and performed through Old English texts.Scholarship is increasingly interested in investigating concepts of emotion found in Old English literature. This study takes the next step, arguing that both heroic and religious texts were vehicles for emotional practice - that is, for doing things with emotion. Using case studies from heroic poetry (Beowulf, The Battle of Brunanburh and The Battle of Maldon), religious poetry (Christ I and Christ III) and homilies (selections from the Vercelli Book, Blickling Homilies and the works of Wulfstan), it shows via detailed close readings that texts could be used to act out emotional styles, manage the emotions arising from specific events, and negotiate relationships both within social groups and with God. Meanwhile, a chapter on the Old English Boethius explores how the control of unruly emotions is theorized as the transfer of attachment from the things of this world to the things of the divine. Overall, the volume offers new angles on the social functions of genres and questions of reception and performance; and it gives insight into how early medieval people used emotions to relate to their world, temporal and eternal. angles on the social functions of genres and questions of reception and performance; and it gives insight into how early medieval people used emotions to relate to their world, temporal and eternal. angles on the social functions of genres and questions of reception and performance; and it gives insight into how early medieval people used emotions to relate to their world, temporal and eternal. angles on the social functions of genres and questions of reception and performance; and it gives insight into how early medieval people used emotions to relate to their world, temporal and eternal.

Author : Nicole Guenther Discenza,Heide Estes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108944526

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Writing the World in Early Medieval England by Nicole Guenther Discenza,Heide Estes Pdf

The early medieval English were far more diverse and better connected to a broader world. This Element provides insights about early medieval English who were engaged deeply in a variety of modes with other parts of their world.

Author : Michael D. J. Bintley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Civilization, Anglo-Saxon
ISBN : 2503583857

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Settlements and Strongholds in Early Medieval England by Michael D. J. Bintley Pdf

Author : Wendy Scase,Laura Ashe,Philip Knox
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781843846888

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New Medieval Literatures 24 by Wendy Scase,Laura Ashe,Philip Knox Pdf

This volume continues the series' engagement with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages, showcasing the best new work in this field. New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies, and embraces the range of European cultures, capaciously defined. Texts analysed here range in date from the late ninth or early tenth centuries to the fifteenth century, and in provenance from the eastern part of the Hungarian kingdom to the British Isles. European understandings of the world are explored in several essays, including historiographical perspectives on the Mongol Empire and "world-building" in the romances of the Round Table. In their consideration of translation - of English diplomatic texts into French, of the Latin Boethius into Old English, of Old Turkic and Mongolian into Latin - several contributors reveal complex medieval multilingual societies, while translatio is shown to be weaponised in international scholarly rivalries. Bibliophilia, book collection, and book production inform identity-formation, shaping both nationalisms and the many-layered identities of fifteenth-century merchants. Several essays engage revealingly with economic humanities. Account books provide traces of book production capacity in the unlikely location of Calais; credit finance provides metaphors for human relations with the divine in the Book of mystic Margery Kempe; and women broker credit in real-world scenarios too. Other essays engage with sensory studies: sight and optics are shown to inform ethnography, while smell and taste - often considered beyond the reach of language - emerge as surprisingly central in some religious and philosophical writings.

Author : Rebecca Brackmann
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : England
ISBN : 9781843846529

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Old English Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century by Rebecca Brackmann Pdf

Old English scholars of the mid-seventeenth century lived through some of the most turbulent times in English history but, this book argues, the upheaval inspired them to produce some of the most famous landmark texts in early Old English studies.England in the 1640s and 1650s experienced civil wars, regicide, and unprecedented debate over religious and social structures, but it also saw several milestones in the field of early medieval English studies. This book argues that the scholars of Old English who produced these works did so not in spite but because of the intense political upheaval surrounding them. The opening chapters examine the book collecting and lexicographic endeavors of the Parliamentarian Simonds D'Ewes, sponsor of the professorship of "Saxon" at Cambridge University, and Abraham Wheelock's pro-Stuart "Old English" poetry and the puritan overtones of his edition of the Old English Historia Ecclesiastica. It then moves on to consider the constitutionalist Roger Twysden's depiction of early English laws as the cornerstone for English identity in his edition of Archaionomia and the Leges Henrici Primi; and the royalist and Laudian bent of both William Somner's chorographic work and his Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum, the first printed dictionary of Old English. It concludes by an exploration of the way in which William Dugdale deployed early medieval events to comment on his present day in his monumental county history, Antiquities of Warwickshire. The volume as a whole suggests that the crises through which these scholars lived and worked spurred their research to engage with both the past and present, using Old English texts as a lens through which to view understand and contribute to contemporary debates about the English church and state.

Author : M. Bintley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Church history
ISBN : 2503583849

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Settlements and Strongholds in Early Medieval England by M. Bintley Pdf

In recent years numerous advances in archaeological and historical studies have enhanced our understanding of the form and function of settlements and strongholds in the landscapes of early medieval England. Until now, this groundbreaking work has not been matched in studies of early English literature, where no concerted effort has been made to investigate how these findings can inform our understanding of their representation in texts - and vice versa. This study shows that literary works offer considerable insight into the ways their authors, readers, and other audiences thought and felt about the constructed places and spaces in which they lived their lives. Covering a broad range of evidence from the end of Roman rule to the Conquest, it is the first study of its kind to offer an interdisciplinary account of the relationship between the built environment as it appears in the material record, and in a range of textual productions. Settlements and Strongholds interrogates correlations and disjunctions between the stories found in the soil and in written works of various kinds, focusing on vernacular texts and Latin works that informed their development. It argues for a deeper appreciation of the relationship between imaginative works and the material contexts in which they were created, revealing the parallel development of ideas and concepts that were fundamental in shaping early medieval England.