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Author: S.A.J. Bradley Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN: 1780223854 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 425
Book Description
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: Joseph Grossi Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1487532571 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 400
Book Description
From the eighth century to the turn of the millennium, East Anglia had a variety of identities thrust upon it by authors of the period who envisioned a unified England. Although they were not regional writers in the modern sense, Bede, Felix, the annalists of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, King Alfred of Wessex, Abbo of Fleury, and Ælfric of Eynsham took a keen interest in East Anglia, especially in its potential to undo English cultural cohesiveness as they imagined it. Angles on a Kingdom argues that those authors treated East Anglia as both a hindrance and a stimulus to the development of early English "national" consciousness. Combining close textual reading with consideration of early medieval barrow burials, coinage, border delineation, and rivalries between monastic houses, Joseph Grossi examines various forms of cultural affirmation and manipulation. Angles on a Kingdom shows that, over the course of roughly two and a half centuries, the literary metamorphoses of East Anglia hint at the region’s recurring tensions with its neighbours – tensions which suggest that writers who sought to depict a coherent England downplayed what they deemed to be dangerous impulses emanating from the island’s easternmost corner.
Author: Felix
Author: Felix
Author: Guthlac (st.)
Author: R. M. Liuzza
Author: Arthur Sampson Napier
Author: S.A.J. Bradley
Author: Ecclesiastical History Society
Author: Cambridge Antiquarian Society (Cambridge, England)
Author: Louis Blake Duff
Author: Joseph Grossi
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