Language & Literature

ISBN: 9781487501006
Published by : University of Toronto Press
Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
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As challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter (especially one from God), it is even harder to understand why letters would have so captured the imagination o... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781487502027
Published by : University of Toronto Press
Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
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Childhood and 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 e... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781487500542
Published by : University of Toronto Press
Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
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The Tower of Babel narrative is one of the most memorable accounts of the Bible, and its interpretative potential has produced a vast array of literary adaptations. Undoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel n... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789089649447
Published by : Amsterdam University Press
Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people's actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating how Anglo-Saxons inte... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781487500740
Published by : University of Toronto Press
The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is a complimentary volume to The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose (UTP 2013). While its predecessor dealt primarily with medieval prose texts about the saints, this volume... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781526101105
Published by : Manchester University Press
Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture uncovers the voice and agency possessed by nonhuman things across Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture. It makes a new contribution to 'thing theory' and rethinks conventional d... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781783272181
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The First Life of St Samson of Dol (Vita Prima Samsonis) is a key text for the study of early Welsh, Cornish, Breton and indeed west Frankish history. In the twentieth century it was the subject of unresolved scholarly controversy that tended to l... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781501705113
Published by : Cornell University Press
Beowulf, like The Iliad and The Odyssey, is a foundational work of Western literature that originated in mysterious circumstances. In The Transmission of "Beowulf," Leonard Neidorf addresses philological questions that are fundamental to... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674975699
Published by : Harvard University Press
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Old Norse mythology is elusive: it is the label used to describe the religious stories of the pre-Christian North, featuring such well-known gods as Odin and Thor, yet most of the narratives have come down to us in manuscripts from the Middle Ages... .... Learn More