A History of Old English Literature
Samenvatting
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 studies
Provides wide–ranging coverage, including Anglo–Latin literature as well as non–canonical writings
Includes new chapters on manuscripts and on marginal and incidental texts
Incorporates expanded coverage of legal texts and scientific and scholastic texts, now treated in separate chapters
Demonstrates that the field of Anglo–Saxon studies is uniquely placed to contribute to current literary debates
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
<p>Preface to the First Edition (2003) vii</p>
<p>Preface to the Second Edition ix</p>
<p>Abbreviations x</p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>Anglo–Saxon England and Its Literature: A Social History 1</p>
<p>1 The Chronology and Varieties of Old English Literature 42</p>
<p>2 Anglo–Saxon Manuscripts 58</p>
<p>3 Literature of the Alfredian Period 83</p>
<p>4 Homilies 112</p>
<p>5 Saints Legends (Rachel S. Anderson) 133</p>
<p>6 Biblical Literature 157</p>
<p>7 Liturgical and Devotional Texts 177</p>
<p>8 Legal Texts 211</p>
<p>9 Scientific and Scholastic Texts 227</p>
<p>10 Wisdom Literature and Lyric Poetry 241</p>
<p>11 Germanic Legend and Heroic Lay 278</p>
<p>12 Additions, Annotations, and Marginalia 329</p>
<p>Conclusion</p>
<p>Making Old English New: Anglo–Saxonism and the Cultural Work of Old English Literature 354</p>
<p>Works Cited 367</p>
<p>Index 481</p>