Author: Timothy Blaine PricePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heliand
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Old Saxon Leipzig "Heliand" Manuscript Fragment (MS L)
Author: Timothy Blaine PricePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heliand
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Luther's Heliand
Author: Timothy Blaine PricePublisher: Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics
ISBN: 9781433113949
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The 2006 discovery of the Old Saxon Heliand manuscript fragment (MS L) in Leipzig is conspicuous. Besides its proximity to Wittenberg, the Leipzig University Library - site of the discovery - was first dedicated by Martin Luther in 1545. Given this relationship between the Reformer and the discovery location, it seems possible that the Reformer once had access to an original version of the Old Saxon Heliand, perhaps as an aid in his efforts to render Biblical Hebraisms into vernacular German idioms at a time of budding German nationalism. Indeed, long before the Old Saxon epic received the name by which it is currently known, rumors arose about Luther's possession of an ancient vernacular Germanic Bible with a Latin preface. Even so, the source and age of these rumors are enigmatic. Were these rumors merely a myth created by later Protestants to counter Rome's denunciation of Luther as a heretic? Following the trail of the rumors' sources, Luther's Heliand untangles historical relationships between the builders of the Leipzig University Library and several of their students - all men who comprised Luther's innermost circle of Reformation thinkers. In their student notes, letters to colleagues, and printed diatribes against the Church and the Empire, these men recorded vital hints regarding the timing and location of their own discovery of the ancient Germanic Bible. Dating of these published accounts indicates that already several years prior to its dedication by Luther, the fledgling Leipzig University Library housed a medieval codex with features identical to those of the extant Old Saxon Heliand manuscripts, in particular MS L.
The consonsant system of manuscript M of the Old Saxon "Heliand"
Author: Karl Edward OdwarkaDigital Scholarly Editing
Author: Matthew James DriscollPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783742410
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
This volume presents the state of the art in digital scholarly editing. Drawing together the work of established and emerging researchers, it gives pause at a crucial moment in the history of technology in order to offer a sustained reflection on the practices involved in producing, editing and reading digital scholarly editions—and the theories that underpin them. The unrelenting progress of computer technology has changed the nature of textual scholarship at the most fundamental level: the way editors and scholars work, the tools they use to do such work and the research questions they attempt to answer have all been affected. Each of the essays in Digital Scholarly Editing approaches these changes with a different methodological consideration in mind. Together, they make a compelling case for re-evaluating the foundation of the discipline—one that tests its assertions against manuscripts and printed works from across literary history, and the globe. The sheer breadth of Digital Scholarly Editing, along with its successful integration of theory and practice, help redefine a rapidly-changing field, as its firm grounding and future-looking ambit ensure the work will be an indispensable starting point for further scholarship. This collection is essential reading for editors, scholars, students and readers who are invested in the future of textual scholarship and the digital humanities.
The Miniatures and Meters of the Old English Genesis, MS Junius 11
Author: Seiichi SuzukiPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110788063
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
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.
MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures
Author: A Fragment of an Anglo-Saxon Liturgical Manuscript at the University of Missouri
Author: The Saxon Genesis
Author: Alger Nicolaus DoanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Toward the middle of the 9th century, an unknown poet composed a version of Genesis in the Old Saxon tongue. For centuries its existence was surmised, but only in the late 19th century, with the discovery of a fragment of the Old Saxon original in the Vatican Library, did scholars know for certain that the Old English fragment known as Genesis B formed the core of a longer, lost Saxon poem.
Hêliand
Author: James E. CatheyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This work presents the reader with explanatory commentary that encompasses both the scientific and the poetic and treats them both with equal felicity.
Perspectives on the Old Saxon Heliand
Author: Valentine A. PakisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781933202495
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Heliand, the Old Saxon poem based on the life of Christ in the Gospels, is now readily available to students of Anglo-Saxon culture, history, linguistics, literature, and religion. In Perspectives on the Old Saxon Heliand, Valentine Pakis brings together recent scholarship to address new turns in the field and engage with relevant academic arguments of the past three decades. Furthering the ongoing critical discussion of both text and culture, this volume reflects the current state of medieval studies while demonstrating its evolution since the 1970s. --Book Jacket.