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"An epic poem is a performance. The telling of Beowulf carries something of the days of its pre-literary composition, as it evolved as something memorised, half spoken and half sung, over many generations. The single manuscript we have, from about 1000 AD, is the end result of a great chain of poetic adaptation. Of all new versions Seamus Heaney's (1999) has made the most striking impact, in part for his willingness to experiment, to be a new scop or oral poet, to depart at times from the exact text and join the tradition when there was no such thing. The licence such an approach adopts can make for a riveting poem in itself, a work of wonder. But there is a different route to the flame of the original. J.D. Winter's rendering of the Beowulf song accepts the text as historical fact, and by a gradual revelation of its deeper music, discovers an illumination from within. The voice is less his and more nearly of the time and world of the poem itself. But this is without recourse to an archaic register. It is the modern language and yet not the modern man speaking. The phrases of the text, like phrases of music with their crescendos and diminuendos, steadily and unhurriedly move towards the culmination of a powerfully fulfilling symphony. It is the expression of a simpler time than ours, and perhaps a more plain-speaking one. Yet its art was at least as sophisticated as the modern world's. The clarity and concentration of meaning in the brilliantly alliterated half-lines can never be properly reconstructed. But a suggestion of that force and beauty, together with an underlying sense of the inexorable, may always be rediscovered" --

Epic poetry, English (Old) --- Monsters --- Dragons --- Beowulf. --- Scandinavia

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Altenglisch. --- Christentum. --- Christian hagiography --- Christian hagiography. --- Christian literature, English (Old) --- Christian literature, English (Old). --- Christian saints --- Christian women saints --- Gender identity in literature. --- Gender identity --- Geschlechterrolle --- Geschlechtsidentität. --- Hagiografie. --- Heilige. --- Literatur. --- Sex role in literature. --- Sex role --- History --- History and criticism. --- Legends. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Aelfric, --- Lives of saints (Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham). --- To 1500.

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In Communal Creativity in the Making of the ‘Beowulf’ Manuscript , Simon Thomson analyses details of scribal activity to tell a story about the project that preserved Beowulf as one of a collective, if error-strewn, endeavour and arguing for a date in Cnut’s reign. He presents evidence for the use of more than three exemplars and at least two artists as well as two scribes, making this an intentional and creative re-presentation uniting literature religious and heroic, in poetry and in prose. He goes on to set it in the broader context of manuscript production in late Anglo-Saxon England as one example among many of communities using old literature in new ways, and of scribes working together, making mistakes, and learning.

091 =20 --- 091.14 --- 820 "06/10" BEOWULF --- 091:028 --- 820 "06/10" BEOWULF Engelse literatuur--?"06/10"--BEOWULF --- Engelse literatuur--?"06/10"--BEOWULF --- 091.14 Codicologie. Codices. Scriptoria --- Codicologie. Codices. Scriptoria --- 091 =20 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- 091:028 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Lezen. Lectuur --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Lezen. Lectuur --- Book history --- manuscripts [documents] --- book history --- Beowulf --- Epic poetry, English (Old) --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Manuscripts, English (Old) --- Anglo-Saxon manuscripts --- English manuscripts, Old --- Manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon --- Manuscripts, Old English --- Old English manuscripts --- Anglo-Saxon epic poetry --- English epic poetry, Old --- Epic poetry, Anglo-Saxon --- Old English epic poetry --- English poetry --- Criticism, Textual. --- Editing. --- British Library. --- British Museum. --- Nowell codex. --- Beowulf. --- Nowell codex --- Beowulf manuscript (Nowell codex) --- Códice Nowell --- Codex Nowell --- Vita Sancti Christophori. --- De rebus in Oriente mirabilibus. --- Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem de miraculis Indiae. --- Judith (Anglo-Saxon poem). --- Bjowulf --- British Library --- British Museum

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History was a subject popular with authors and readers in the Anglo-Norman world. The volume and richness of historical writing in the lands controlled by the kings of England, particularly from the twelfth century, has long attracted the attention of historians and literary scholars, whilst editions of works by such writers as Orderic Vitalis, John of Worcester, Symeon of Durham, William of Malmesbury, Gerald of Wales, Roger of Howden, and Matthew Paris has made them well known. Yet the easy availability of modern editions obscures both the creation and circulation of histories in the Middle Ages. This collection of essays returns to the processes involved in writing history, and in particular to the medieval manuscript sources in which the works of such historians survive. It explores the motivations of those writing about the past in the Middle Ages, and the evidence provided by manuscripts for the circumstances in which copies were made. It also addresses the selection of material for copying, combinations of text and imagery, and the demand for copies of particular works, shedding new light on how and why history was being read, reproduced, discussed, adapted, and written. Laura Cleaver is the Ussher Lecturer in Medieval Art, Trinity College Dublin; Andrea Worm is an Assistant Professor at the Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz. Contributors: Stephen Church, Kathryn Gerry, Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Laura Pani, Charles C. Rozier, Gleb Schmidt, Laura Slater, Michael Staunton, Caoimhe Whelan

Manuscripts, Medieval --- History in literature --- Medieval manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- Great Britain --- History --- Historiography --- 091:930 --- 091 <41> --- 091 <44> --- 091 "10/12" --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--11e/13e eeuw. Periode 1000-1299. --- 091 <44> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Frankrijk --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Frankrijk --- 091:930 Handschriften i.v.m. geschiedenis --- Handschriften i.v.m. geschiedenis --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland $2 UDC --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--11e/13e eeuw. Periode 1000-1299 --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Manuscripts, English (Old) --- Historiography. --- Anglo-Saxon manuscripts --- English manuscripts, Old --- Manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon --- Manuscripts, Old English --- Old English manuscripts --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Middle English manuscripts --- Anglo-Norman World. --- Anglo-Norman world. --- Gerald of Wales. --- Interpretation. --- John of Worcester. --- Makers. --- Manuscript Sources. --- Manuscripts. --- Matthew Paris. --- Medieval History. --- Medieval Manuscripts. --- Middle Ages. --- Norman Settlement. --- Orderic Vitalis. --- Readers. --- Roger of Howden. --- Symeon of Durham. --- William of Malmesbury. --- Writing History. --- historical writing. --- manuscript sources.

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"Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England is the first in-depth study of Christian apocrypha focusing specifically on the use of extra-biblical narratives in Old English sermons. The work contributes to our understanding of both the prevalence and importance of apocrypha in vernacular preaching, by assessing various preaching texts from Continental and Anglo-Saxon Latin homiliaries, as well as vernacular collections like the Vercelli Book, the Blickling Book, AElfric's Catholic Homilies and other manuscripts from the tenth through twelfth centuries. Vernacular sermons were part of a media ecology that included Old English poetry, legal documents, liturgical materials, and visual arts. Situating Old English preaching within this network establishes the range of contexts, purposes, and uses of apocrypha for diverse groups in Anglo-Saxon society: cloistered religious, secular clergy, and laity, including both men and women. Apocryphal narratives did not merely survive on the margins of culture, but thrived at the heart of mainstream Anglo-Saxon Christianity."--

Apocryphal books --- Sermons, English (Old) --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Anglo-Saxon sermons --- English sermons, Old --- Old English sermons --- Sermons, Anglo-Saxon --- Sermons, Old English --- English prose literature --- Apocryphal literature --- Pseudepigrapha --- Sacred books --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- History --- History and criticism. --- England --- Church history --- 229 --- 27 <420> "04/10" --- 251 <420> --- 27 <420> "04/10" Histoire de l'Eglise--Engeland--?"04/10" --- 27 <420> "04/10" Kerkgeschiedenis--Engeland--?"04/10" --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Engeland--?"04/10" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Engeland--?"04/10" --- 251 <420> Homiletiek. Verkondiging. Prediking--Engeland --- 251 <420> Homiletique. Predication--Engeland --- Homiletiek. Verkondiging. Prediking--Engeland --- Homiletique. Predication--Engeland --- 229 Apocriefen. Pseudepigrafen. Deutero-canonieke boeken --- 229 Livres apocryphes. Pseudepigraphes. Livres deuterocanoniques --- Apocriefen. Pseudepigrafen. Deutero-canonieke boeken --- Livres apocryphes. Pseudepigraphes. Livres deuterocanoniques --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- History and criticism --- To 1500