A history of Old English literature /
Fulk, R. D.
A history of Old English literature / R.D. Fulk and Christopher M. Cain. - Second edition. - 1 online resource. - Blackwell histories of literature . - Blackwell histories of literature. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 edition responds to the renewed historicism in medieval studiesProvides wide-ranging coverage, including Anglo-Latin literature as well as non-canonical writingsIncludes new chapters on manuscripts and on marginal and incidental textsIncorporates expande.
9781118441121 1118441125 9781118441114 1118441117 9781118441152 111844115X 9781118441138 1118441133 1118453239 9781118453230
2013004127
To 1500
English literature--History and criticism.--Old English, ca. 450-1100
Christian hagiography--History--To 1500.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Christian hagiography.
English literature--Old English.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR173
829/.09
A history of Old English literature / R.D. Fulk and Christopher M. Cain. - Second edition. - 1 online resource. - Blackwell histories of literature . - Blackwell histories of literature. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 edition responds to the renewed historicism in medieval studiesProvides wide-ranging coverage, including Anglo-Latin literature as well as non-canonical writingsIncludes new chapters on manuscripts and on marginal and incidental textsIncorporates expande.
9781118441121 1118441125 9781118441114 1118441117 9781118441152 111844115X 9781118441138 1118441133 1118453239 9781118453230
2013004127
To 1500
English literature--History and criticism.--Old English, ca. 450-1100
Christian hagiography--History--To 1500.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Christian hagiography.
English literature--Old English.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR173
829/.09