TY - BOOK ID - 77897659 TI - Source of wisdom AU - Hill, Thomas D AU - Wright, Charles Darwin AU - Biggs, Frederick M AU - Hall, Thomas N PY - 2007 SN - 144268481X 9781442684812 9780802093677 0802093671 PB - Toronto Buffalo University of Toronto Press DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Latin literature, Medieval and modern KW - History and criticism. KW - Hill, Thomas D., UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77897659 AB - As one of the most prolific and influential scholars in the field, Thomas D. Hill has made an indelible mark on the study of Old English literature. In celebration of his distinguished career, the editors of Source of Wisdom have assembled a wide-ranging collection of nineteen original essays on Old English poetry and prose as well as early medieval Latin, touching upon many of Hill?s specific research interests.Among the topics examined in this volume are the Christian-Latin sources of Old English texts, including religious and ?sapiential? poetry, and prose translations of Latin writings. Old English poems such as Beowulf, The Dream of the Rood, and The Wife?s Lament are treated, throughout, to thematic, textual, stylistic, lexical, and source analysis. Prose writers of the period such as King Alfred and Wærferth, as well as medieval Latin writers such as Bede and Pseudo-Methodius are also discussed. As an added feature, the volume includes a bibliography of publications by Thomas D. Hill. Source of Wisdom is, ultimately, a contribution to the understanding of medieval English literature and the textual traditions that contributed to its development. ER -