Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse
Title | Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse PDF eBook |
Author | Samantha Zacher |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 191 |
Release | 2013-12-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1441150935 |
The Bible played a crucial role in shaping Anglo-Saxon national and cultural identity. However, access to Biblical texts was necessarily limited to very few individuals in Medieval England. In this book, Samantha Zacher explores how the very earliest English Biblical poetry creatively adapted, commented on and spread Biblical narratives and traditions to the wider population. Systematically surveying the manuscripts of surviving poems, the book shows how these vernacular poets commemorated the Hebrews as God's 'chosen people' and claimed the inheritance of that status for Anglo-Saxon England. Drawing on contemporary translation theory, the book undertakes close readings of the poems Exodus, Daniel and Judith in order to examine their methods of adaptation for their particular theologico-political circumstances and the way they portray and problematize Judaeo-Christian religious identities.
Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse
Title | Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse PDF eBook |
Author | Samantha Zacher |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 217 |
Release | 2013-12-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1441121102 |
The Bible played a crucial role in shaping Anglo-Saxon national and cultural identity. However, access to Biblical texts was necessarily limited to very few individuals in Medieval England. In this book, Samantha Zacher explores how the very earliest English Biblical poetry creatively adapted, commented on and spread Biblical narratives and traditions to the wider population. Systematically surveying the manuscripts of surviving poems, the book shows how these vernacular poets commemorated the Hebrews as God's 'chosen people' and claimed the inheritance of that status for Anglo-Saxon England. Drawing on contemporary translation theory, the book undertakes close readings of the poems Exodus, Daniel and Judith in order to examine their methods of adaptation for their particular theologico-political circumstances and the way they portray and problematize Judaeo-Christian religious identities.
Old English Biblical Verse
Title | Old English Biblical Verse PDF eBook |
Author | Paul G. Remley |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 496 |
Release | 1996-06-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 052147454X |
An extended study of the Old Testament poems of the Junius collection as a group.
The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England
Title | The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Marsden |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 544 |
Release | 1995-11-02 |
Genre | Bibles |
ISBN | 9780521464772 |
This 1995 book is a study of the transmission of the Vulgate Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England.
Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture
Title | Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Samantha Zacher |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 377 |
Release | 2016-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1442646675 |
The thirteen essays in Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture examine visual and textual representations of Jews before 1066.
Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England
Title | Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick McBrine |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 399 |
Release | 2017-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0802098533 |
Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England provides an accessible introduction to biblical epic poetry.
Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture
Title | Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Irvine |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 349 |
Release | 2018-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1487502028 |
Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture counters the generally received wisdom that early medieval childhood and adolescence were an unremittingly bleak experience. The contributors analyse representations of children and their education in Old English, Old Norse and Anglo-Latin writings, including hagiography, heroic poetry, riddles, legal documents, philosophical prose and elegies. Within and across these linguistic and generic boundaries some key themes emerge: the habits and expectations of name-giving, expressions of childhood nostalgia, the role of uneducated parents, and the religious zeal and rebelliousness of youth. After decades of study dominated by adult gender studies, Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture rebalances our understanding of family life in the Anglo-Saxon era by reconstructing the lives of medieval children and adolescents through their literary representation.