A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7609-5
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 941 g

This acclaimed volume explores and unravels the contexts, readings, genres, intertextualities and debates within Anglo-Saxon studies.
- Brings together specially-commissioned contributions from a team of leading European and American scholars.
- Embraces both the literature and the cultural background of the period.
- Combines the discussion of primary material and manuscript sources with critical analysis and readings.
- Considers the past, present and future of Anglo-Saxon studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pulsiano, Phillip

Treharne, Elaine

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors x

Preface xv

Acknowledgements xvi

Abbreviations xvii

Map 1 Late Anglo-Saxon England xviii

Part I Contexts and Perspectives 1

1 An Introduction to the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Vernacular Literature 3
Elaine Treharne and Phillip Pulsiano

2 An Introduction to the Corpus of Anglo-Latin Literature 11
Joseph P. McGowan

3 Transmission of Literature and Learning: Anglo-Saxon Scribal Culture 50
Jonathan Wilcox

4 Authorship and Anonymity 71
Mary Swan

5 Audience(s), Reception, Literacy 84
Hugh Magennis

6 Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Production: Issues of Making and Using 102
Michelle P. Brown

Part II Readings: Cultural Framework and Heritage 119

7 The Germanic Background 121
Patrizia Lendinara

8 Religious Context: Pre-Benedictine Reform Period 135
Susan Irvine

9 The Benedictine Reform and Beyond 151
Joyce Hill

10 Legal and Documentary Writings 170
Carole Hough

11 Scientific and Medical Writings 188
Stephanie Hollis

12 Prayers, Glosses and Glossaries 209
Phillip Pulsiano

Part III Genres and Modes 231

13 Religious Prose 233
Roy M. Liuzza

14 Religious Poetry 251
Patrick W. Conner

15 Secular Prose 268
Donald G. Scragg

16 Secular Poetry 281
Fred C. Robinson

17 Anglo-Latin Prose 296
Joseph P. McGowan

Part IV Intertextualities: Sources and Influences 325

18 Biblical and Patristic Learning 327
Thomas Hall

19 The Irish Tradition 345
Charles D. Wright

20 Continental Germanic Influences 375
Rolf Bremmer

21 Scandinavian Relations 388
Robert E. Bjork

Part V Debates and Issues 401

22 English in the Post-Conquest Period 403
Elaine Treharne

23 Anglo-Saxon Studies: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries 415
Timothy Graham

24 Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Nineteenth Century: England, Denmark, America 434
J. R. Hall

25 Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Nineteenth Century: Germany, Austria, Switzerland 455
Hans Sauer

26 By the Numbers: Anglo-Saxon Scholarship at the Century’s End 472
Allen Frantzen

27 The New Millennium 496
Nicholas Howe

Selected Further Reading 506

Index 511

Über Autor(innen)

Phillip Pulsiano is late Professor of English at Villanova University. He authored numerous articles on Old and Middle English poetry and prose, and co-edited the Garland Encyclopaedia of Medieval Scandinavia (with Paul Acker and Kirsten Wolf). He had completed the first volume of The Old English Psalters (for Toronto University Press), and had undertaken significant research on Latin female saints' lives from the medieval period, and (with Joseph P. McGowan) the prose texts in the Beowulf-manuscript: work that will be published posthumously.

Elaine M. Treharne is Professor of Early English at Florida State University. She is author of The Old English Life of St Nicholas with the Old English Life of St Giles (1997), co-editor of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and their Heritage (with Philip Pulsiano), Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century (with Mary Swan), and Readings in Medieval Texts (with David Johnson). She is the author of Old and Middle English: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2003) and an editor for Review of English Studies and Literature Compass. She currently works on the ideology of early English texts and their physical contexts.