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A history of Old English literature /

This revised edition of A History of Old English Literature draws extensively on the latest scholarship to have evolved over the last decade. The text incorporates additional material throughout, including two new chapters on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and incidental and marginal texts. This revised ed...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fulk, R. D. (Robert Dennis)
Otros Autores: Cain, Christopher M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:Blackwell histories of literature.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Anglo-Saxon England and its literature: a social history
  • The chronology and varieties of Old English literature
  • Anglo-Saxon manuscripts
  • Literature of the Alfredian period
  • Homilies
  • Saints? legends (Rachel S. Anderson)
  • Biblical literature
  • Liturgical and devotional texts
  • Legal texts
  • Scientific and scholastic texts
  • Wisdom literature and lyric poetry
  • Germanic legend and heroic lay
  • Additions, annotations, and marginalia
  • Conclusion: Making Old English new: Anglo-Saxonism and the cultural work of Old English literature.