The Cambridge history of early medieval English literature /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. ©2013 |
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| Description: | xv, 789 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The new Cambridge history of English literature New Cambridge history of English literature. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8967003 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: literature in Britain and Ireland, 500-1150
- Part I. Word, Script and Image:
- 1. Writing in Britain and Ireland, 400-800
- 2. The art of writing: scripts and scribal production
- 3. Art and writing: voice, image, object
- 4. Of Bede's 'Five Languages and Four Nations': the earliest writing from Ireland, Scotland and Wales
- 5. Insular Latin literature to 900
- 6. Bede and the northern kingdoms
- Part II. Early English Literature:
- 7. Across borders: Anglo-Saxon England and the Germanic world
- 8. English literature in the ninth century
- 9. The writing of history in the early Middle Ages: the Anglo-Saxon chronicle in context
- 10. The literary languages of Old English: words, styles, voices
- 11. Old English poetic form: genre, style, prosody
- 12. Beowulf: a poem in our time
- 13. Old English lyrics: a poetics of experience
- 14. Literature in pieces: female sanctity and the relics of early women's writing
- 15. Saintly lives: friendship, kinship, gender and sexuality
- 16. Sacred history and Old English religious poetry
- 17. Performing Christianity: liturgical and devotional writing
- 18. Riddles, wonder and responsiveness in Anglo-Saxon literature
- Part III. Latin Learning and the Literary Vernaculars:
- 19. In measure, and number, and weight: writing science
- 20. Legal documentation and the practice of English law
- 21. Latinities, 893-1143
- 22. The authority of English, 900-1150
- 23. Crossing the language divide: Anglo-Scandinavian language and literature
- 24. European literature and eleventh-century England
- 25. Gaelic literature in Ireland and Scotland, 900-1150
- 26. Writing in Welsh to 1150: re-creating the past, shaping the future
