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A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century offers a new narrative of what happened to English language writing in the long twelfth century, the period that saw the end of the Old English tradition and the beginning of Middle English writing. It discusses numerous neglected or unknown texts, focusing particularly on documents, chronicles and sermons. To tell the story of this pivotal period, it adopts approaches from both literary criticism and historical linguistics, finding a synthesis for them in a twenty-first century philology. It develops new methodologies for addressing major questions about twelfth-century texts, including when they were written, how they were read and their relationship to earlier works. Essential reading for anyone interested in what happened to English after the Norman Conquest, this study lays the groundwork for the coming decade's work on transitional English.

English literature --- English language --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Germanic languages --- Anglo-Saxon literature --- English literature, Old --- Old English literature --- British literature

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This collection brings together newly commissioned and cutting-edge essays on oral text and tradition ranging from the ancient and medieval world to the present day by a leading group of European and North American oral theorists. Using a range of materials including the Bible, Greek epic, Beowulf, Old Norse and Old English riddles, and medieval music, the contributors collectively work to refine, challenge, and further advance contemporary Oral Theory, an interdisciplinary school of thought heavily influenced by John Miles Foley, whose work provides the jumping-off point for this volume. The book includes a useful introduction to the history of oral theory and Foley’s ground-breaking and influential work.

Oral history. --- Oral tradition. --- Anglo-Saxon Literature. --- Beowulf. --- Folklore. --- Medieval Music. --- Old Norse. --- Scandinavian religion. --- composition. --- narrative. --- orality. --- performance. --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- History --- Oral biography --- Oral tradition --- Methodology --- Foley, John Miles --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Recent scholarship on the Anglo-Saxon prognostics has tried to place these texts within the realm of folklore and medicine, inspired largely by studies and editions from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By analysing prognostic material in its manuscript context, this book offers a novel approach to the status and purpose of prognostic texts in the early Middle Ages with particular attention to the Anglo-Saxon tradition. From this perspective, it emerges that prognostication in Anglo-Saxon England was not folkloric but a scholarly pursuit by monks not primarily interested in the medical aspects of prognostication. In addition, this book offers, for the first time, a comprehensive edition of prognostics in Old English and Latin from Anglo-Saxon and early post-Conquest manuscripts. Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History , volume 3

Angelsaksen. --- Voorspellingen. --- English literature --- Forecasting. --- Prophecies. --- Anglo-Saxon literature --- English literature, Old --- Old English literature --- British literature --- Forecasts --- Futurology --- Prediction --- Predictions --- Imaginary wars and battles --- Engeland. --- Altenglisch. --- Bloodletting --- Embryonic and Fetal Development --- Literatur. --- Littérature anglaise --- Motiv. --- Prophezeiung --- Prophéties. --- Prévision. --- Wahrsagen. --- History. --- Old English. --- 450-1100. --- Mittellatein.

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Professor Jane Hawkes has devoted her career to the study of medieval stone, exploring its iconographies, symbolic significances and scholarly contexts, and shedding light on the obscure and understudied sculpted stone monuments of Anglo-Saxon England. This volume builds on her scholarly interests, offering new engagements with medieval culture and the current scholarly methodologies that shape the discipline. The contributors approach several significant objects and texts from the early and later Middle Ages, working across several disciplinary backgrounds and periods, largely focusing on the Insular World as it intersects with wider global contexts of the period. The chapters cover a wide range of subjects, from the material culture of baptism, to the material, symbolic and iconographic consideration of the artistic outputs of the Insular world, with essays on sculpture, metalwork, glass and manuscripts, to ideas of stone and salvation in both material and textual contexts, to intellectual puzzles and patterns - both material and mathematic - to consideration of the ways in which the conversion to Christianity played out on the landscape.

Art, Irish --- Art, Anglo-Saxon --- Material culture --- Material culture. --- Themes, motives. --- History --- Hawkes, Jane --- To 1500 --- Great Britain --- Great Britain. --- Anglo-Saxon art --- Irish art --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Anglo-Saxon England. --- Anglo-Saxon culture. --- Anglo-Saxon iconography. --- Anglo-Saxon literature. --- Christian iconography. --- Insular Iconographies. --- Jane Hawkes. --- art history. --- cultural artifacts. --- cultural intersections. --- historical symbolism. --- iconography. --- intellectual history. --- material culture. --- medieval England. --- medieval art. --- medieval manuscripts. --- medieval sculpture. --- medieval stone. --- medieval studies. --- scholarly contexts. --- sculpted stone monuments. --- symbolic significances.

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Irish monks and missionaries played a crucial role in the conversion of the pagan Anglo-Saxons and in the formation of Christian culture in England, but the nature and extent of Irish influence on Old English poetry has remained largely undefined. Charles Wright identifies the characteristic features of Irish Christian literature which influenced Anglo-Saxon vernacular authors. Professor Wright traces the Irish background of the distinctive contents of Vercelli Homily IX and its remarkable exemplum, 'The Devil's Account of the Next World', and traces the dissemination of related stylistic and thematic material elsewhere in Old English literature, including other anonymous homilies such as Beowulf and the Solomon and Saturn texts. As a full-length study of Irish influence on Old English religious literature, the book will appeal to scholars in Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon studies, and Old and Middle Irish literature.

English literature --- Christian literature, English (Old) --- Sermons, Medieval --- Sermons, English (Old) --- Mythology, Celtic, in literature. --- Devil in literature. --- Hell in literature. --- Irish influences. --- History and criticism. --- Mythology, Celtic, in literature --- Devil in literature --- Hell in literature --- Irish influences --- History and criticism --- Vercelli book --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- English literature - Old English, ca. 450-1100 --- English literature - Irish influences --- Christian literature, English (Old) - History and criticism --- Sermons, Medieval - England - History and criticism --- Sermons, English (Old) - History and criticism --- Vercelli book. --- England --- Civilization --- Anglo-Saxon sermons --- English sermons, Old --- Old English sermons --- Sermons, Anglo-Saxon --- Sermons, Old English --- English prose literature --- Anglo-Saxon literature --- English literature, Old --- Old English literature --- British literature --- Codex Vercellensis --- Vercellensis Codex --- Ireland