Saints and scholars : new perspectives on Anglo-Saxon literature and culture in honour of Hugh Magennis /

"Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, and their subsequent appropriations, unite the essays collected here. They offer fresh and exciting perspectives on a variety of issues, from gender to religion and the afterlives of Old English texts, from reconsiderations of neglected works to reflections...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McWilliams, Stuart (Editor ), Magennis, Hugh (honouree.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, [2012]
Temas:
Magennis, Hugh > 1946-
450 - 1100
English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism.
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.
Saints in literature.
Scholars in literature.
Littérature anglaise > ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Civilisation anglo-saxonne.
Saints dans la littérature.
Savants dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Medieval.
English literature > Old English.
Kultur
Altenglisch
Literatur
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A note on the sensational Old English Life of St. Margaret / Elaine Treharne
  • A place to weep : Joseph in the beer-room and Anglo-Saxon gestures of emotion / Jonathan Wilcox
  • Aldhelm's choice of saints for his prose De virginitate / Juliet Mullins
  • Shepherding the shepherds in the ways of pastoral care : Ælfric and Cambridge University library, MS Gg. 3-28 / Robert K. Upchurch
  • Consider Lazarus : a context for Vercelli Homily VII / Jane Roberts
  • More than a female Joseph : the sources of the late-fifth-century Passio Sanctae Eugeniae / E. Gordon Whatley
  • Ælfric, Leofric and In natele plurimorum apostolorum / Joyce Hill
  • Stories from the court of King Alfred / Malcolm Godden
  • De duodecim Abusiuis, lordship and kingship in Anglo-Saxon England / Mary Clayton
  • Reluctant appetites : Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards fasting / Christina Lee
  • A note on the function of the inscribed strip from the Staffordshire hoard / Elisabeth Okasha
  • The shining of the sun in the Twelve nights of Christmas / Marilina Cesario
  • Sin and laughter in late Anglo-Saxon England : the case of Old English (h)leahtor / Donald Scragg
  • Marginal activity? Post-conquest Old English readers and their notes / Mary Swan
  • Old English for non-specialists in the nineteenth century : a road not taken / Chris Jones
  • The beginnings of English poetry : philologica and textual challenges for the creative imagination / John J. Thompson and Ivan Herbison.

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