The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems
Author : Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231087704
Author : Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231087704
Author : Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,11 MB
Release : 1942
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Daniel Donoghue
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812249941
Daniel Donoghue shows how the earliest readers of Old English poems deployed a unique set of skills that enabled them to navigate a daunting task with apparent ease.
Author : S.A.J. Bradley
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 36,89 MB
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1780223854
Anglo-saxon poetry was circulated orally in a preliterate society, and gathered at last into books over some six centuries before the Norman Conquest ended English independence. Against the odds some of these books survive today. This anthology of prose translations covers most of the surviving poetry, revealing a tradition which is outstanding among early medieval literatures for its sophisticated exploration of the human condition in a mutable, finite, but wonderfully diverse and meaning-filled world.
Author : Janet Schrunk Ericksen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1487507461
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 : Frederick Wilse Bateson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 1940
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Maren Clegg Hyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1786940280
This study of the waterscapes of the Anglo-Saxon world will assist serious students of the Anglo-Saxon period in both perceiving and understanding both the textual imagery and the archaeology of water in Anglo-Saxon England.
Author : Victoria Symons
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110492776
This book presents the first comprehensive study of Anglo-Saxon manuscript texts containing runic letters. To date there has been no comprehensive study of these works in a single volume, although the need for such an examination has long been recognized. This is in spite of a growing academic interest in the mise-en-page of early medieval manuscripts. The texts discussed in this study include Old English riddles and elegies, the Cynewulfian poems, charms, Solomon and Saturn I, and the Old English Rune Poem. The focus of the discussion is on the literary analysis of these texts in their palaeographic and runological contexts. Anglo-Saxon authors and scribes did not, of course, operate within a vacuum, and so these primary texts are considered alongside relevant epigraphic inscriptions, physical objects, and historical documents. Victoria Symons argues that all of these runic works are in various ways thematically focused on acts of writing, visual communication, and the nature of the written word. The conclusion that emerges over the course of the book is that, when encountered in the context of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, runic letters consistently represent the written word in a way that Roman letters do not.
Author : D. N. Dumville
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 15,26 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 9780859914918
This volume presents the text of the chronicle, usually referred to as the Abingdon Chronicle. It is an important source of information for the reign of Edward the Confessor, and it brings a unique political perspective to the later ascendents.
Author : George Philip Krapp
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 1931
Category : English poetry
ISBN :