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Sociology of literature --- Old English literature --- English literature --- Anglo-Saxon literature --- Littérature anglaise --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature anglaise --- History and criticism.
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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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Anglo-Saxon literature --- English literature --- English literature --- English literature --- English literature --- English literature, middle 1100-1500 --- Collections. --- Middle English. --- Old English. --- Collections. --- 450-1500.
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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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English literature --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Middle Ages --- Anglo-Saxon literature --- English literature, Old --- Old English literature --- British literature --- Middle English literature --- Literary collections --- Old English, ca. 450-1100 --- Modernized versions --- Middle English, 1100-1500 --- Manuscripts [Medieval ] --- England --- English literature - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - Modernized versions. --- English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - Modernized versions. --- Middle Ages - Literary collections.
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English literature --- History and criticism --- Middle English. --- Old English. --- Anglo-Saxon literature --- English literature, Old --- Old English literature --- Middle English literature --- 450 - 1500 --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers)
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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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English literature --- Manuscripts, English (Middle). --- Manuscripts, English (Old). --- 802.0-023 --- Middelengels --- 802.0-023 Middelengels --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Manuscripts, English (Old) --- 802.0-022 --- 802.0-022 Oudengels --- Oudengels --- 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-Saxon literature --- English literature, Old --- Old English literature --- British literature --- Middle English literature
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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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Humanity is a dominant presence in the Exeter Book riddle collection. It is frequently shown using, shaping and binding the physical world in which it lives. The riddles depict master and craftsman and use the familiar human world as a point of orientation within a vast, overwhelming cosmos. But the riddles also offer an eco-centric perspective, one that considers the natural origins of man-made products and the personal plight of useful human resources. This study offers fresh insights into the collection, investigating humanity's interaction with, and attitudes towards, the rest of the created world. Drawing on the principles of eco-criticism and eco-theology, the study considers the cultural and biblical influences on the depiction of nature in the collection, arguing that the texts engage with post-lapsarian issues of exploitation, suffering and mastery. Depictions of marginalised perspectives of sentient and non-sentient beings, such as trees, ore and oxen, are not just characteristic of the riddle genre, but are actively used to explore the point of view of the natural world and the impact humanity has on its non-human inhabitants. The author not only explores the riddles' resistance to anthropocentrism, but challenges our own tendency to read these enigmas from a human-centred perspective. Corinne Dale gained her PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Riddles. --- Conundrums --- Enigmas --- Riddles, English --- Amusements --- Folk literature --- Literary recreations --- Questions and answers --- Wit and humor --- Charades --- Puzzles --- Riddles, English (Old) --- English poetry --- Riddles in literature. --- Nature in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Exeter book. --- Nature in poetry --- Anglo-Saxon riddles --- English riddles, Old --- Old English riddles --- Riddles, Anglo-Saxon --- Riddles, Old English --- Codex exoniensis --- Exeterbuch --- Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501 --- 450-1100 --- Old English Language, Period of --- Anglo-Saxon literature. --- Anthropocentrism. --- Eco-criticism. --- Eco-theology. --- Exeter Book. --- Medieval Literature. --- Medieval. --- Metaphor. --- Middle Ages. --- Old English riddles. --- Old English. --- Riddle. --- enigmatography. --- joke riddle. --- neck-riddle. --- translation. --- vernacular riddles.
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