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

• Paperback | Engels | WV Medieveal European Studies
• 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

• Paperback | Engels | WV Medieveal European Studies
• The Book of Emperors is the first complete translation of the Kaiserchronik from Middle High German to English. Lees meer

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Larry D Benson

• Paperback | Engels | WV Medieveal European Studies
• 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

• Paperback | Engels | WV Medieveal European Studies
• 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

• Paperback | Engels | WV Medieveal European Studies
• 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

• Paperback | Engels | WV Medieveal European Studies
• Examines the issues facing the textual transmission of Anglo-Saxon writings. Eight established scholars consider the ideas of textual identity, author... Lees meer

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

Allen J Frantzen, John Hines

• Paperback | Engels | WV Medieveal European Studies
• 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

• Paperback | Engels | WV Medieveal European Studies
• Ths is the third and final volume of an ambitious research initiative begun in 1999 concerned with the image of the cross, showing how its very materi... Lees meer

Naked Before God

Benjamin C Withers, Jonathan Wilcox

• Paperback | Engels | WV Medieveal European Studies
• 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