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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fulk, R. D. (Robert Dennis)
Other Authors: Cain, Christopher M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Blackwell histories of literature.
Subjects:
To 1500
English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism.
Christian hagiography > History > To 1500.
Littérature anglaise > ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais) > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Christian hagiography
English literature > Old English
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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