| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 344 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction. Case study of Psalm 50.1-3 in the old and middle English / Francis Leneghan -- Translation. -- Some Anglo-Saxon psalters and their glosses / Jane Roberts -- Eadwine psalter and twelfth century English vernacular literary culture / Mark Faulkner -- 'In eching for the beste' : the fourteenth century English prose psalter and the art of psalm translation / Annie Sutherland -- Wycliffite psalms / Elizabeth Solopova -- Rolle's English Psalter and the possibilities of vernacular scriptural commentary / Katherine Zieman -- Adaptation. -- Making the psalter sing : the old English Metrical psalms, rhythm and Rumination / Francis Leneghan -- Psalms in the Old English office of prime / Daniel Anlezark -- Psalms genres in old English poetry / Jane Toswell -- Articulating the psalms in middle English alliterative poetry : some passages of Piers Plowman, St Erkenwald and Pearl / Mike Rodman Jones -- Voice. -- Maidstone's psalms and the King's speech / Lynn Staley -- Songs of the threshold : Enargeia and the psalter / Vincent Gillespie -- Psalms as public interiorities : Eleanor Hull's voices / David Lawton -- Vox ecclesiae, vox Christi : the psalms and medieval English ecclesiology / Michael P. Kuczynski |
| Summary |
The Book of Psalms had a profound impact on English literature from the Anglo-Saxon to the late medieval period. This collection examines the various ways in which they shaped medieval English thought and contributed to the emergence of an English literary canon. It brings into dialogue experts on both Old and Middle English literature, thus breaking down the traditional disciplinary binaries of both pre- and post-Conquest English and late medieval and Early Modern, as well as emphasizing the complex and fascinating relationship between Latin and the vernacular languages of England. Its three main themes, translation, adaptation and voice, enable a rich variety of perspectives on the Psalms and medieval English literature to emerge |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Psalms -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. Psalms fast |
| Subject |
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Medieval influences.
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RELIGION / Christian Theology / Systematic
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RELIGION / Christianity / General
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RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament
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English literature -- Medieval influences
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Literature, Medieval
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| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Atkin, Tamara, 1981- editor.
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Leneghan, Francis, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781782049456 |
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1782049452 |
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