| Description |
1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
A note on the sensational Old English Life of St. Margaret / Elaine Treharne -- A place to weep : Joseph in the beer-room and Anglo-Saxon gestures of emotion / Jonathan Wilcox -- Aldhelm's choice of saints for his prose De virginitate / Juliet Mullins -- Shepherding the shepherds in the ways of pastoral care : Ælfric and Cambridge University library, MS Gg. 3-28 / Robert K. Upchurch -- Consider Lazarus : a context for Vercelli Homily VII / Jane Roberts -- More than a female Joseph : the sources of the late-fifth-century Passio Sanctae Eugeniae / E. Gordon Whatley -- Ælfric, Leofric and In natele plurimorum apostolorum / Joyce Hill -- Stories from the court of King Alfred / Malcolm Godden -- De duodecim Abusiuis, lordship and kingship in Anglo-Saxon England / Mary Clayton -- Reluctant appetites : Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards fasting / Christina Lee -- A note on the function of the inscribed strip from the Staffordshire hoard / Elisabeth Okasha -- The shining of the sun in the Twelve nights of Christmas / Marilina Cesario -- Sin and laughter in late Anglo-Saxon England : the case of Old English (h)leahtor / Donald Scragg -- Marginal activity? Post-conquest Old English readers and their notes / Mary Swan -- Old English for non-specialists in the nineteenth century : a road not taken / Chris Jones -- The beginnings of English poetry : philologica and textual challenges for the creative imagination / John J. Thompson and Ivan Herbison |
| Summary |
"Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, and their subsequent appropriations, unite the essays collected here. They offer fresh and exciting perspectives on a variety of issues, from gender to religion and the afterlives of Old English texts, from reconsiderations of neglected works to reflections on the place of Anglo-Saxon in the classroom. As is appropriate, they draw especially on Hugh Magennis' own interests in hagiography and issues of community and reception. Taken together, they provide a "state of the discipline" account of the present, and future, of Anglo-Saxon studies. The volume also includes contributions from the leading Irish poets Ciaran Carson and Medbh McGuckian."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
EBL |
| SUBJECT |
Magennis, Hugh 1946- gnd |
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English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.
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Saints in literature.
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Scholars in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Medieval.
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon
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English literature -- Old English
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Saints in literature
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Scholars in literature
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Kultur
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Altenglisch
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Literatur
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McWilliams, Stuart, editor.
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Magennis, Hugh, honouree
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| ISBN |
9781846158711 |
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1846158710 |
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