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A history of Old English literature / R.D. Fulk and Christopher M. Cain.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell histories of literaturePublisher: Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013Edition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118441121
  • 1118441125
  • 9781118441114
  • 1118441117
  • 9781118441152
  • 111844115X
  • 9781118441138
  • 1118441133
  • 1118453239
  • 9781118453230
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: History of Old English literature.DDC classification:
  • 829/.09 23
LOC classification:
  • PR173
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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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 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.

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