A History of Old English Literature
R. D. Fulk, Christopher M. CainThis revised edition of A History of Old English Literature draws extensively on the latest scholarship to have evolved over the last decade. The text incorporates additional material throughout, including two new chapters on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and incidental and marginal texts.
- This revised edition responds to the renewed historicism in medieval studies
- Provides wide-ranging coverage, including Anglo-Latin literature as well as non-canonical writings
- Includes new chapters on manuscripts and on marginal and incidental texts
- Incorporates expanded coverage of legal texts and scientific and scholastic texts, now treated in separate chapters
- Demonstrates that the field of Anglo-Saxon studies is uniquely placed to contribute to current literary debates
Chapter none Introduction (pages 1–41):
Chapter 1 The Chronology and Varieties of Old English Literature (pages 42–57):
Chapter 2 Anglo?Saxon Manuscripts (pages 58–82):
Chapter 3 Literature of the Alfredian Period (pages 83–111):
Chapter 4 Homilies (pages 112–132):
Chapter 5 Saints’ Legends (pages 133–156): Rachel S. Anderson
Chapter 6 Biblical Literature (pages 157–176):
Chapter 7 Liturgical and Devotional Texts (pages 177–210):
Chapter 8 Legal Texts (pages 211–226):
Chapter 9 Scientific and Scholastic Texts (pages 227–240):
Chapter 10 Wisdom Literature and Lyric Poetry (pages 241–277):
Chapter 11 Germanic Legend and Heroic Lay (pages 278–328):
Chapter 12 Additions, Annotations, and Marginalia (pages 329–353):
Categorie:
Anno:
2013
Edizione:
2
Casa editrice:
Wiley-Blackwell
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
504
ISBN 10:
1118453239
ISBN 13:
9781118453230
File:
PDF, 3.96 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013