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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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The Anglo-Saxon Version of the Hexameron of St. Basil, Or, Be Godes Six Daga Weorcum
Author: The Anglo-Saxon Version of the Hexameron of St. Basil, Or, Be Godes Six Daga Weorcum
Author: AelfricThe Anglo-Saxon Version of the Hexameron of St. Basil, Or, Be Godes Six Daga Weorcum. And the Anglo-Saxon Remains of St. Basil's Admonitio Ad Filium Spiritualem
Author: Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.)Publisher:
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The Anglo-Saxon Version of the Hexameron of St. Basil, Or, Be Godes Six Daga Weorcum. And the Anglo-Saxon Remains of St. Basil's Admonitio Ad Filium Spiritualem
Author: Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Ælfric's Anglo-Saxon version of Alcuini Interrogationes Sigeuulfi presbyteri in Genesin
Author: AlcuinPublisher:
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Category : Anglo-Saxon language
Languages : en
Pages : 726
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Inhabited Spaces
Author: Nicole Guenther DiscenzaPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 148751154X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
We tend to think of early medieval people as unsophisticated about geography because their understandings of space and place often differed from ours, yet theirs were no less complex. Anglo-Saxons conceived of themselves as living at the centre of a cosmos that combined order and plenitude, two principles in a constant state of tension. In Inhabited Spaces, Nicole Guenther Discenza examines a variety of Anglo-Latin and Old English texts to shed light on Anglo-Saxon understandings of space. Anglo-Saxon models of the universe featured a spherical earth at the centre of a spherical universe ordered by God. They sought to shape the universe into knowable places, from where the earth stood in the cosmos, to the kingdoms of different peoples, and to the intimacy of the hall. Discenza argues that Anglo-Saxon works both construct orderly place and illuminate the limits of human spatial control.
A Companion to Ælfric
Author: Hugh MagennisPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047430255
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This collection provides a new, authoritative and challenging study of the life and works of Ælfric of Eynsham, the most important vernacular religious writer in the history of Anglo-Saxon England. The contributors include almost all of the key Ælfric scholars working today and some important newer voices. Each of the chapters is a cutting-edge piece of work which addresses one aspect of Ælfric’s works or career. The chapters are organised topically, rather than by chronology, genre or biography, and between them cover the entire Ælfrician corpus and the major contextual issues; consideration of Ælfric’s Latin writings is carefully integrated with that of his Old English works. Ælfric studies are currently a central element of Anglo-Saxon studies, but while to date there has been a great deal of detailed work on some aspects of Ælfric, this collection provides the first overview. Contributors: Hugh Magennis, Joyce Hill, Christopher A. Jones, Mechthild Gretsch, M. R. Godden, Catherine Cubitt, Thomas N. Hall, Robert K. Upchurch, Mary Swan, Clare A. Lees, Gabriella Corona, Kathleen Davis, Jonathan Wilcox, Aaron J Kleist and Elaine Treharne.
The Ruthwell Cross and its Texts
Author: Kerstin MajewskiPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110785447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Ruthwell Cross is one of the finest Anglo-Saxon high crosses that have come down to us. The longest epigraphic text in the Old English Runes Corpus is inscribed on two sides of the monument: it forms an alliterative poem, in which the Cross itself narrates the crucifixion episode. Parts of the inscription are irrevocably lost. This study establishes a historico-cultural context for the Ruthwell Cross’s texts and sculptures. It shows that The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem is an integral part of a Christian artefact but also an independent text. Although its verses match closely with lines of The Dream of the Rood in the Vercelli Book, a comparative analysis gives new insight into their complex relationship. An annotated transliteration of the runes offers intriguing information for runologists. Detailed linguistic and metrical analyses finally yield a new reconstruction of the lost runes. All in all, this study takes a fresh look at the Ruthwell Cross and provides the first scholarly edition of the reconstructed Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem—one of the earliest religious poems of Anglo-Saxon England. It will be of interest to scholars and students of historical linguistics, medieval English literature and culture, art history, and archaeology.
The Tomb of Beowulf
Author: Fred C. RobinsonPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0631173285
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
THE TOMB OF BEOWULF Fred C. Robinson is known throughout the world for some of the most original and stimulating work on Old English literature and language published in recent times. This book collects twenty three of his essays, including three substantial new articles on the literary interpretation of Beowulf, the background and value of Ezra Pound’s translation of The Seafarer, and an account of the use of Old English in twentieth-century literary compositions. The essays vary widely in terms of subject and approach. They include literary interpretation and criticism of the best-known Old English poems (The Battle of Maldon and Exodus for example), an account of the historical, religious, and cultural background to the writing of Beowulf, articles on women in Old English literature and on the significance of names and naming. The book as a whole is informed by the author’s preoccupation with meaning, context, and language, and their subtle interactions. Its contents are equally characterized by readability and scholarship, and by learning and wit.
Source of Wisdom
Author: Thomas D. HillPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802093671
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
As one of the most prolific and influential scholars in the field, Thomas D. Hill has made an indelible mark on the study of Old English literature. In celebration of his distinguished career, the editors of Source of Wisdom have assembled a wide-ranging collection of nineteen original essays on Old English poetry and prose as well as early medieval Latin, touching upon many of Hill's specific research interests. Among the topics examined in this volume are the Christian-Latin sources of Old English texts, including religious and 'sapiential' poetry, and prose translations of Latin writings. Old English poems such as Beowulf, The Dream of the Rood, and The Wife's Lament are treated, throughout, to thematic, textual, stylistic, lexical, and source analysis. Prose writers of the period such as King Alfred and Wærferth, as well as medieval Latin writers such as Bede and Pseudo-Methodius are also discussed. As an added feature, the volume includes a bibliography of publications by Thomas D. Hill. Source of Wisdom is, ultimately, a contribution to the understanding of medieval English literature and the textual traditions that contributed to its development.