This stimulating Companion brings together leading scholars from America, the Antipodes, and Europe to point the way ahead for Anglo-Saxon studies. The scope of the volume is unparalleled, embracing not only the literature of the period, but also the cultural background and the discipline of Anglo-Saxon studies, past, present and future. The chapters are linked into five sections covering contexts, readings, genres, intertextualities and debates. The combination of the discussion of primary material and manuscript sources with critical analysis and readings breaks new ground: fresh approaches…mehr
This stimulating Companion brings together leading scholars from America, the Antipodes, and Europe to point the way ahead for Anglo-Saxon studies. The scope of the volume is unparalleled, embracing not only the literature of the period, but also the cultural background and the discipline of Anglo-Saxon studies, past, present and future. The chapters are linked into five sections covering contexts, readings, genres, intertextualities and debates. The combination of the discussion of primary material and manuscript sources with critical analysis and readings breaks new ground: fresh approaches are offered, genres of writing not normally studied are opened up, and readers are shown how texts can be read in their particular cultural milieu. The complete volume is essential reading for upper-level students or faculty who want a current and challenging overview of the field.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Phillip Pulsiano is late Professor of English at Villanova University. He authored numerous articles on Old and Middle English poetry and prose, and co-edited the Garland Encyclopaedia of Medieval Scandinavia (with Paul Acker and Kirsten Wolf). He had completed the first volume of The Old English Psalters (for Toronto University Press), and had undertaken significant research on Latin female saints' lives from the medieval period, and (with Joseph P. McGowan) the prose texts in the Beowulf -manuscript: work that will be published posthumously. Elaine M. Treharne is Professor of Early English at Florida State University. She is author of The Old English Life of St Nicholas with the Old English Life of St Giles (1997), co-editor of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and their Heritage (with Philip Pulsiano), Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century (with Mary Swan), and Readings in Medieval Texts (with David Johnson). She is the author of Old and Middle English: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2003) and an editor for Review of English Studies and Literature Compass. She currently works on the ideology of early English texts and their physical contexts.
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Contributors x Preface xv Acknowledgements xvi Abbreviations xvii Map 1 Late Anglo-Saxon England xviii Part I Contexts and Perspectives 1 1 An Introduction to the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Vernacular Literature 3 Elaine Treharne and Phillip Pulsiano 2 An Introduction to the Corpus of Anglo-Latin Literature 11 Joseph P. McGowan 3 Transmission of Literature and Learning: Anglo-Saxon Scribal Culture 50 Jonathan Wilcox 4 Authorship and Anonymity 71 Mary Swan 5 Audience(s), Reception, Literacy 84 Hugh Magennis 6 Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Production: Issues of Making and Using 102 Michelle P. Brown Part II Readings: Cultural Framework and Heritage 119 7 The Germanic Background 121 Patrizia Lendinara 8 Religious Context: Pre-Benedictine Reform Period 135 Susan Irvine 9 The Benedictine Reform and Beyond 151 Joyce Hill 10 Legal and Documentary Writings 170 Carole Hough 11 Scientific and Medical Writings 188 Stephanie Hollis 12 Prayers, Glosses and Glossaries 209 Phillip Pulsiano Part III Genres and Modes 231 13 Religious Prose 233 Roy M. Liuzza 14 Religious Poetry 251 Patrick W. Conner 15 Secular Prose 268 Donald G. Scragg 16 Secular Poetry 281 Fred C. Robinson 17 Anglo-Latin Prose 296 Joseph P. McGowan Part IV Intertextualities: Sources and Influences 325 18 Biblical and Patristic Learning 327 Thomas Hall 19 The Irish Tradition 345 Charles D. Wright 20 Continental Germanic Influences 375 Rolf Bremmer 21 Scandinavian Relations 388 Robert E. Bjork Part V Debates and Issues 401 22 English in the Post-Conquest Period 403 Elaine Treharne 23 Anglo-Saxon Studies: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries 415 Timothy Graham 24 Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Nineteenth Century: England, Denmark, America 434 J. R. Hall 25 Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Nineteenth Century: Germany, Austria, Switzerland 455 Hans Sauer 26 By the Numbers: Anglo-Saxon Scholarship at the Century's End 472 Allen Frantzen 27 The New Millennium 496 Nicholas Howe Selected Further Reading 506 Index 511
Contributors x Preface xv Acknowledgements xvi Abbreviations xvii Map 1 Late Anglo-Saxon England xviii Part I Contexts and Perspectives 1 1 An Introduction to the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Vernacular Literature 3 Elaine Treharne and Phillip Pulsiano 2 An Introduction to the Corpus of Anglo-Latin Literature 11 Joseph P. McGowan 3 Transmission of Literature and Learning: Anglo-Saxon Scribal Culture 50 Jonathan Wilcox 4 Authorship and Anonymity 71 Mary Swan 5 Audience(s), Reception, Literacy 84 Hugh Magennis 6 Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Production: Issues of Making and Using 102 Michelle P. Brown Part II Readings: Cultural Framework and Heritage 119 7 The Germanic Background 121 Patrizia Lendinara 8 Religious Context: Pre-Benedictine Reform Period 135 Susan Irvine 9 The Benedictine Reform and Beyond 151 Joyce Hill 10 Legal and Documentary Writings 170 Carole Hough 11 Scientific and Medical Writings 188 Stephanie Hollis 12 Prayers, Glosses and Glossaries 209 Phillip Pulsiano Part III Genres and Modes 231 13 Religious Prose 233 Roy M. Liuzza 14 Religious Poetry 251 Patrick W. Conner 15 Secular Prose 268 Donald G. Scragg 16 Secular Poetry 281 Fred C. Robinson 17 Anglo-Latin Prose 296 Joseph P. McGowan Part IV Intertextualities: Sources and Influences 325 18 Biblical and Patristic Learning 327 Thomas Hall 19 The Irish Tradition 345 Charles D. Wright 20 Continental Germanic Influences 375 Rolf Bremmer 21 Scandinavian Relations 388 Robert E. Bjork Part V Debates and Issues 401 22 English in the Post-Conquest Period 403 Elaine Treharne 23 Anglo-Saxon Studies: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries 415 Timothy Graham 24 Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Nineteenth Century: England, Denmark, America 434 J. R. Hall 25 Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Nineteenth Century: Germany, Austria, Switzerland 455 Hans Sauer 26 By the Numbers: Anglo-Saxon Scholarship at the Century's End 472 Allen Frantzen 27 The New Millennium 496 Nicholas Howe Selected Further Reading 506 Index 511
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"The latest addition to Blackwell's comprehensive surveys ofliterature and culture, this volume offers an impressive array ofessays by reputable scholars ... This Companion will be avaluable introduction for upper-level undergraduate and graduatestudents and useful resource for faculty." Choice
"A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature is an impressiveanthology of erudite essays written by scholars around the world onthe topic of Anglo-Saxon literature, particularly that of thesixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Prose, poetry, religious,and secular literature are all discussed at length in thiscollege-level analysis and presentation, which is very highlyrecommended for academic literary studies in general, and medievalstudies in reference collections in particular." The Midwest Book Review
"Many of the world's leading Anglo-Saxonists have contributed tothis volume which provides a very useful overview of currentpreoccupations of those who study and teach Old Englishliterature." Literature and History
"Stimulating introductions that bring out the wider potential oftheir topics for understanding the Anglo-Saxon past ... much tooffer the more experienced reader as well as the novice." Literature and History
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