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Reading Old English Biblical poetry : the book and the poem in Junius 11
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ISBN: 1487536305 1487536291 1487507461 Year: 2021 Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press,

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"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 or any book's contents."--

The poems of MS Junius 11
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ISBN: 0815338627 113482985X 0203775600 1134829787 1283965011 9781134829781 9780203775608 9781134829927 1134829922 9781134829859 9780815338628 9781283965019 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York Routledge

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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.

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