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Record Nr.

UNISA996248191003316

Titolo

Old English Literature in its Manuscript Context / / edited by Joyce Tally Lionarons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Morgantown, W. Va., : West Virginia University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-935978-38-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Medieval European studies ; ; 5

Altri autori (Persone)

LionaronsJoyce Tally

Disciplina

829/.09

Soggetti

Manuscripts, English (Old)

Manuscripts, Medieval - England

English literature - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - Criticism, Textual

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Collection of essays from a 1997 summer seminar held at the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Nostalgia and the Rhetoric of Lack; Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 41 and the B Text; The Dilemma of the Chapter Headings; Authority and Cædmon's Hymn; Anglo-Saxon Orthodoxy; Textual Appropriation and Scribal (Re)Performance in a Composite Homily; De Temporibus Anticristi; Multilingual Glosses, Bilingual Text; Cambridge, Trinity College R.9.17; Cambridge University Library Hh.1.10; British Library, Cotton Faustina A.x; Three Tables of Contents, One Old English Homiliary in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 178

The Old English Colophon and Anglo-Latin Table of ContentsThe Thirteenth-Century Table of Contents; Parker's Early Modern Table of Contents; The Boundaries Between Verse and Prosein Old English Literature; Old English Verse Passages Identified as Verse in Context; Verse in Prose Contexts without Explicit or Contextual Indicators; Conclusions; Glastonbury and the Early History of the Exeter Book; Parker's Purposes for His Manuscripts; Index of Manuscripts; General Index; Back cover