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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829967503321

Titolo

A companion to Anglo-Saxon literature / / edited by Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine Treharne [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Publishers, 2001

ISBN

1-78268-283-X

1-4051-6530-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 529 p. ) : map ;

Collana

Blackwell companions to literature and culture  A companion to Anglo-Saxon literature

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; ; 11

Altri autori (Persone)

PulsianoPhillip <1955->

TreharneElaine M

PulsianoPhillip <1955-2000.>

Disciplina

829.09

Soggetti

English literature - Old English, approximately 450-1100 - History and criticism

English literature - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - History and criticism

English literature - History and criticism - Old English, ca. 450-1100

English Literature

English

Languages & Literatures

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Handbooks, manuals, etc.

History

Great Britain History Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 Handbooks, manuals, etc

England Civilization To 1066 Handbooks, manuals, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [506]-510) and index.

Nota di contenuto

An introduction to the corpus of Anglo-Saxon vernacular literature / Elaine Treharne and Phillip Pulsiano -- An introduction to the corpus of Anglo-Latin literature / Joseph P. McGowan -- Transmission of literature and learning : Anglo-Saxon scribal culture / Jonathan Wilcox -- Authorship and anonymity / Mary Swan -- Audience(s), reception,



literacy / Hugh Magennis -- Anglo-Saxon manuscript production : issues of making and using / Michelle P. Brown -- The Germanic background / Patrizia Lendinara -- Religious context : pre-Benedictine reform period / Susan Irvine -- The Benedictine reform and beyond / Joyce Hill -- Legal and documentary writings / Carole Hough -- Scientific and medical writings / Stephanie Hollis -- Prayers, glosses and glossaries / Phillip Pulsiano -- Religious prose / Roy M. Liuzza -- Religious poetry / Patrick W. Conner -- Secular prose / Donald G. Scragg -- Secular poetry / Fred C. Robinson -- Anglo-Latin prose / Joseph P. McGowan -- Biblical and patristic learning / Thomas Hall -- The Irish tradition / Charles D. Wright.

Continental Germanic influences / Rolf Bremmer -- Scandinavian relations / Robert E. Bjork -- English in the post-conquest period / Elaine Treharne -- Anglo-Saxon studies : sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Timothy Graham -- Anglo-Saxon studies in the nineteenth century : England, Denmark, America / J.R. Hall -- Anglo-Saxon studies in the nineteenth century : Germany, Austria, Switzerland / Hans Sauer -- By the numbers : Anglo-Saxon scholarship at the century's end / Allen Frantzen -- The new millennium / Nicholas Howe.