M R Rambaran-Olm

John the Baptist's Prayer or the Descent Into Hell from the Exeter Book

Text, Translation and Critical Study

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Edition, translation and full critical study of a hitherto marginalised text, bringing it to full attention for the first time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781843843665
• ISBN-10: 1843843668
• Artikelnr.: 38130414

Autorenporträt

M.R. Rambaran-Olm

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Paleography, Codicology and Language The descensus motif
Literary Analysis Selected Comparative Studies and Analogous Literature
Afterword Apparatus: Text and Translation Commentary Appendix 1: The
Doctrine of the descensus according to Post-Apostolic and Medieval
Commentators from the First Century to the end of the Eleventh Century AD
Appendix 2: Scriptural References Appendix 3: Other Sources and Analogues
Appendix 4: Transcription and Images of folio 120r Glossary Bibliography