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"It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the Bible in the medieval world. For the Anglo-Saxons, literary culture emerged from sustained and intensive biblical study. Further, at least to judge from the Old English texts which survive, the Old Testament was the primary influence,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Fox, Michael, 1967-, Sharma, Manish, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2012.
Series:Toronto Anglo-Saxon series.
Subjects:
Bible > In literature.
Bible.
Bibel > Altes Testament
Bibeln.
To 1500
English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism.
Christian literature, English (Old) > History and criticism.
Christianity and literature > England > History > To 1500.
Littérature anglaise > ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature chrétienne anglaise (vieil anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Bible dans la littérature.
Christianisme et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Christian literature, English (Old)
Christianity and literature.
English literature > Old English.
Literature.
Altenglisch
Literatur
Rezeption
Rezeption.
Altenglisch.
Literatur.
Bibliska motiv i litteraturen.
Fornengelsk litteratur > historia.
Engelsk religiös litteratur > forntiden > medeltiden.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""The Old Testament and Old English Prose""; ""Ã?lfric's Interrogationes Sigewulfi""; ""Ã?lfric's Judith""; ""Circumscribing the Text: Views on Circumcision in Old English Literature""; ""The Old Testament and the Poems of the Junius Manuscript""; ""Genesis A ad litteram""; ""The Economy of the Word in the Old English Exodus""; ""Daniel and the Dew-Laden Wind: Sources and Structures""; ""The Old Testament and Other Old English Poems""; ""Rex regum et cyninga cyning: 'Speaking Hebrew' in Cynewulf's Elene""
  • ""The City as Speaker of the Old Testament in Andreas""""Cyningas sigefÃ?ste Ã?urh God: Contributions from Anglo-Saxon England to Early Advocacy for Ã?láfr Haraldsson""; ""Happiness and the Psalms""; ""The Old English Kentish Psalm and Polysystems Theory""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""

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