Description |
1 online resource (446 pages) |
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Toronto Old English Studies |
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Toronto Old English Studies
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Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Note on Quotations -- Part I: Beowulf -- Beasts of Battle, South and North -- The Fates of Men in Beowulf -- Folio 179 of the Beowulf Manuscript -- Part II: Old English Religious and Sapiential Poetry -- Trinitarian Language: Augustine, The Dream of the Rood, and Ælfric -- The Leaps of Christ and The Dream of the Rood -- 'Đu eart se weallstan': Architectural Metaphor and Christological Imagery in the Old English Christ I and the Book of Kells -- Remembering in Circles: The Wife's Lament, Conversatio, and the Community of Memory -- A Word to the Wise: Thinking, Knowledge, and Wisdom in The Wanderer -- Part III: Old English Prose -- Alfred's Nero -- The 'Remigian' Glosses on Boethius's Consolatio Philosophiae in Context -- Why Ditch the Dialogues? Reclaiming an Invisible Text -- Hagiography and Violence: Military Men in Ælfric's Lives of Saints -- A New Latin Source for Two Old English Homilies (Fadda I and Blickling I): Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo App. 125, and the Ideology of Chastity in the Anglo-Saxon Benedictine Reform -- Christ's Birth through Mary's Right Breast: An Echo of Carolingian Heresy in the Old English Adrian and Ritheus -- Part IV: Old English beyond the Conquest -- The Peterborough Chronicle and the Invention of 'Holding Court' in Twelfth-Century England -- Echoes of Old English Alliterative Collocations in Middle English Alliterative Proverbs -- Part V: Early Medieval Latin -- Bede's Style: A Neglected Historiographical Model for the Style of the Historia Ecclesiastica? -- Crux-busting on the Danube: uel Coniectanea in Cosmographiam Aethici, ut dicitur, Istri -- The Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius and Scriptural Study at Salisbury in the Eleventh Century -- Appendix 1. Publications of Thomas D. Hill -- Appendix 2. Dissertations Directed -- Contributors -- Index -- Index of Manuscripts |
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B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Y -- Z -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z |
Summary |
Source of Wisdom is, ultimately, a contribution to the understanding of medieval English literature and the textual traditions that contributed to its development |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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"Publications of Thomas D. Hill": pages 387-400 |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Hill, Thomas D., 1940-
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SUBJECT |
Hill, Thomas D., 1940- fast |
Subject |
English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism
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Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- England -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
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English literature -- Old English
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Latin literature, Medieval and modern
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England
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Festschriften
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Festschriften.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Biggs, Frederick
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Hall, Thomas N
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ISBN |
9781442684812 |
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144268481X |
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