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UNINA9910787002003321 |
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Autore |
Yeager Stephen M. <1979-> |
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From lawmen to plowmen : Anglo-Saxon legal tradition and the School of Langland / / Stephen M. Yeager |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2014 |
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1-4426-9617-6 |
1-4426-9616-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (281 p.) |
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Collana |
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Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; ; 17 |
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English poetry - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism |
English language - Middle English, 1100-1500 - Versification |
Law and literature - England - History - To 1500 |
Religion and literature - England - History - To 1500 |
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England |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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From written record to memory : a brief history of Anglo-Saxon legal-homiletic discourse -- Leges Cnuti, Sermones Lupi : homily, law, and the legacy of Wulfstan -- Ecclesiastical Anglo-Saxonism in thirteenth-century Worcester : The First Worcester Fragment and The Proverbs of Alfred -- La[y]amon's Brut : law, literature, and the chronicle-poem -- Defining the Piers Plowman tradition -- Documents, dreams and the Langlandian legacy in Mum and the Sothsegger. |
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By comparing Anglo-Saxon charters, sermons, and law codes with Langland's Piers Plowman and similar poems, Yeager demonstrates that this legal and homiletical literature had an influential afterlife in the fourteenth-century poetry of William Langland and his imitators. |
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UNINA9910311935703321 |
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Colla Elliott <1965-> |
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Conflicted antiquities : Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian modernity / / Elliott Colla |
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Durham, NC, : Duke University Press, 2007 |
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9786613035561 |
9781283035569 |
1283035561 |
9780822390398 |
0822390396 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (360 p.) |
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Egyptology |
Nationalism - Egypt - History |
Egypt Antiquities |
Egypt Civilization 1798- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-328) and index. |
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Introduction: The Egyptian Sculpture Room -- The Artifaction of the Memnon Head -- Ozymandias -- Conflicted Antiquities: Islam's Pharaoh and Emergent Egyptology -- The Antiqakhana -- Pharaonic Selves -- Two Pharaohs -- The Discovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb: Archaeology, Politics, Literature -- Nahdat Misr -- Pharaonism after Pharaonism: Mahfouz and Qutb. |
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A cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. |
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