Beowulf and the Grendel-Kin

Helen Damico

• Paperback | Engels | WV Medieveal European Studies
• In "Beowulf and the Grendel-kin: Politics and Poetry in Eleventh-Century England," Helen Damico presents the first concentrated discussion of the init... Lees meer

Bede and Aethelthryth

Stephen J Harris

• Paperback | Engels | WV Medieveal European Studies | nr. 18
• Asks why Christians in Britain around the year 700 enjoyed Latin poetry. What did they see in it? What did they get from it? This book attempts to rec... Lees meer

Heliand

James E Cathey

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• This work presents the reader with explanatory commentary that encompasses both the scientific and the poetic and treats them both with equal felicity... Lees meer

The Book of Emperors

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• The Book of Emperors is the first complete translation of the Kaiserchronik from Middle High German to English. Lees meer

The Old English Poem Seasons for Fasting

Mary P Richards

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• The Old English Poem Seasons for Fasting: A Critical Edition provides a new text and translation of the poem, accompanied by an extensive introduction... Lees meer

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Larry D Benson

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• With a foreword by Daniel Donoghue, the close verse translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight includes facing pages of the original fourteenth-ce... Lees meer

Isidorean Perceptions of Order

Mercedes Salvador-Bello

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• This book discusses the considerable influence exerted by Isidore's Etymologiaeon upon the compilation of early medieval enigmata. Either in the form ... Lees meer

Ancient Privileges

Stefan Jurasinski

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• One of the great triumphs of nineteenth-century philology was the development of the wide array of comparative data that underpins the grammars of the... Lees meer

Old English Literature in Its Manuscript Context

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• This revised edition of Reading Old English aims to equip readers (advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and autodidacts) with the necessary too... Lees meer

Caedmon's Hymn and Material Culture in the World of Bede

Allen J Frantzen, John Hines

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• The essays in this book use the nine-line poem known as Cædmon's Hymn as a lens on the world of Bede's Ecclesiastical History. Lees meer

Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World

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• Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter is the third and final volume of an ambitious research ini... Lees meer

Innovation and Tradition in the Writings of the Venerable Bede

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• Essays are by Roger Ray, Faith Wallis, Calvin B. Kendall, George Hardin Brown, Scott DeGregorio, Arthur G. Holder, Lawrence T. Martin, Walter Goffart,... Lees meer

Naked Before God

Benjamin C Withers, Jonathan Wilcox

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• At different times and in different places, the human form has been regarded in different ways. The Ancient Greeks thought it was an admirable subject... Lees meer

Via Crucis

Charles D. Wright

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• This book originated as a series of papers delivered at a Symposium on Irish and Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture in Honor of J.E. Cross, held in conjunct... Lees meer