Inhabited Spaces

Nicole Discenza

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• We tend to think of early medieval people as unsophisticated about geography because their understandings of space and place often differed from ours,... Lees meer

Old English Literature and the Old Testament

• Paperback | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the Bible in the medieval world. For the Anglo-Saxons, literary culture emerged from sustained... Lees meer

Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• Most studies of Jews in medieval England begin with the year 1066, when Jews first arrived on English soil. Yet the absence of Jews in England before ... Lees meer

Weaving Words and Binding Bodies

Megan Cavell

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• References to weaving and binding are ubiquitous in Anglo-Saxon literature. Several hundred instances of such imagery occur in the poetic corpus, invo... Lees meer

Undoing Babel

Tristan Major

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• The Tower of Babel narrative is one of the most memorable accounts of the Bible, and its interpretative potential has produced a vast array of literar... Lees meer

Compelling God

Stephanie Clark

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• While prayer is generally understood as "communion with God" modern forms of spirituality prefer "communion" that is non-petitionary and wordless. Thi... Lees meer

Joinings

Jonathan Davis-Secord

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• The first comprehensive study of the use of compound words in Old English poetry, homilies, and philosophy, Joinings explores the effect of compounds ... Lees meer

Stealing Obedience

Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• Narratives of monastic life in Anglo-Saxon England depict individuals as responsible agents in the assumption and performance of religious identities.... Lees meer

Epistolary Acts

Jordan Zweck

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• As challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter (especially on... Lees meer

New Readings in the Vercelli Book

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• The late tenth-century Vercelli Book (Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare CXVII) contains one of the earliest surviving collections of homilies and poetry... Lees meer

From Lawmen to Plowmen

Stephen Yeager

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• The reappearance of alliterative verse in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries remains one of the most puzzling issues in the literary history of me... Lees meer

The Aesthetics of Nostalgia

Renee R Trilling

• Paperback | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• Heroic poetry was central to the construction of Anglo-Saxon values, beliefs, and community identity and its subject matter is often analyzed as a win... Lees meer

On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems

John M Hill

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• What makes one Anglo-Saxon poem better than another? Why does Beowulf still have the power to move us after so many centuries? What might have been ae... Lees meer

Land and Book

Scott Thompson Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly ... Lees meer

Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England

Patrick McBrine

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• Biblical poetry, written between the fourth and eleventh centuries, is an eclectic body of literature that disseminated popular knowledge of the Bible... Lees meer

Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture counters the generally received wisdom that early medieval childhood and adolescence were an u... Lees meer

Traditional Subjectivities

Britt Mize

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• Why is Old English poetry so preoccupied with mental actions and perspectives, giving readers access to minds of antagonists as freely as to those of ... Lees meer

Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England

Brandon Hawk

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England is the first in-depth study of Christian apocrypha focusing specifically on the use of extra-biblical narra... Lees meer

Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse

Thomas A Bredehoft

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse re-examines the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition from the eighth to the eleventh centuries and reconsiders the s... Lees meer

The King's Body

Nicole Marafioti

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• The King's Body investigates the role of royal bodies, funerals, and graves in English succession debates from the death of Alfred the Great in 899 th... Lees meer

The Politics of Language

Rebecca Stephenson

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• Old English literature thrived in late tenth-century England. Its success was the result of a concerted effort by the leaders of the Benedictine Refor... Lees meer

England in Europe

Elizabeth Muir Tyler

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written for Emma the wife of the Æthelred II and Cnut, and... Lees meer

Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon Literature

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• For the Anglo-Saxons, Latin was a language of choice that revealed a multitude of beliefs and desires about themselves as subjects, believers, scholar... Lees meer

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

Helmut Gneuss, Michael Lapidge

• Paperback | Engels | Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts is the first publication to list every surviving manuscript or manuscript fragment written in Anglo-Saxon England between the ... Lees meer