Author | : Paul G. Remley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1996-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052147454X |
An extended study of the Old Testament poems of the Junius collection as a group.
Author | : Paul G. Remley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1996-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052147454X |
An extended study of the Old Testament poems of the Junius collection as a group.
Author | : Janet Schrunk Ericksen |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2020-11-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1487536305 |
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 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 orany book’s contents.
Author | : Michael Fox |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1442620269 |
It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the Bible in the medieval world. For the Anglo-Saxons, literary culture emerged from sustained and intensive biblical study. Further, at least to judge from the Old English texts which survive, the Old Testament was the primary influence, both in terms of content and modes of interpretation. Though the Old Testament was only partially translated into Old English, recent studies have shown how completely interconnected Anglo-Latin and Old English literary traditions are. Old English Literature and the Old Testament considers the importance of the Old Testament from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, from comparative to intertextual and historical. Though the essays focus on individual works, authors, or trends, including the Interrogationes Sigewulfi, Genesis A, and Daniel, each ultimately speaks to the vernacular corpus as a whole, suggesting approaches and methodologies for further study.
Author | : Ronne Randall |
Publisher | : Flying Frog Publishing |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781884628276 |
Author | : Stanley B. Greenfield |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2008-07-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1556356374 |
"Greenfield and Robinson state in their preface that they have sought to include every book, monograph, article, note, and review published on Old English literature since the invention of printing. They have come as close to doing so as two descendants of Adam possibly can, undeterred by the trouble at Babel. (By my count, thirty different languages are represented in the bibliography, sixteen of them frequently.) Rarely has any bibliography in any other discipline equalled the thoroughness and accuracy of this one. It is a contribution for which Greenfield and Robinson will long receive from their colleagues that measure of gratitude reserved for Old English scholarship's most bounteous treasure-givers."--Carl T. Berkhout"What astonishes is how well [Greenfield and Robinson] have succeeded in what they set out to do, how uniformly excellent their volume is in all its profusion of information and detail. . . . The Bibliography will bring scholars that peculiar joy in complex intellectual work done well that only they know; it will be immensely useful, virtually indispensable--if not a vade mecum because of its size . . . then at least an enchiridion with which they will fight their battles on behalf of Beowulf and Brunanburb and the Blickling Homilies."--The Old English Newsletter"[A] volume long needed, [the Bibliography] will now become an indispensable reference work for every student of Old English literature from the beginner to the acknowledged authority."--British Book News
Author | : R. M. Liuzza |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 113482985X |
Taken from the same manuscript as Cynewulf, the Junius 11 poems-Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan-comprise a series of redacted Old English works that have been traditionally presented as the work of Bede's Caedmon. Medieval scholars have concluded that the four poems were composed by more than one author and later edited by Junius in 1655. All of the poems are notable for their Christian content. Apart from its focus on the Junius 11 manuscript, this collection of essays is also important as a study of how to read, edit, and define any medieval literary text.