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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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