LEADER 04772nam 2200805 450 001 996552371103316 005 20230621135908.0 010 $a1-5261-1600-6 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526115997 035 $a(CKB)3800000000216132 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39720 035 $a(UkMaJRU)992979627124201631 035 $a(DE-B1597)660345 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526115997 035 $a(EXLCZ)993800000000216132 100 $a20191127h20172017 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture /$fJames Paz 210 1$aManchester, UK :$cManchester University Press,$d2017. 210 4$d©2017 215 $a1 online resource (x, 236 pages) $cillustrations; digital file(s) 225 1 $aManchester Medieval Literature and Culture 311 $a1-5261-0110-6 311 $a1-5261-1599-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments --Introduction: On Anglo- Saxon things --1. Ęschere?s head, Grendel?s mother and the swordthat isn?t a sword: Unreadable things in Beowulf --2. The ?thingness? of time in the Old English riddles of the Exeter Book and Aldhelm?s Latin enigmata --3. The riddles of the Franks Casket: Enigmas, agencyand assemblage --4. Assembling and reshaping Christianity in the Livesof St Cuthbert and Lindisfarne Gospels --5. The Dream of the Rood and the Ruthwellmonument: Fragility, brokenness and failure --Afterword: Old things with new things to say --Bibliography --Index. 330 3 $a"Anglo-Saxon ?things? could talk. Nonhuman voices leap out from the Exeter Book Riddles, telling us how they were made or how they behave. The Franks Casket is a box of bone that alludes to its former fate as a whale that swam aground onto the shingle, and the Ruthwell monument is a stone column that speaks as if it were living wood, or a wounded body. In this book, James Paz uncovers the voice and agency that these nonhuman things have across Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture. He makes a new contribution to ?thing theory? and rethinks conventional divisions between animate human subjects and inanimate nonhuman objects in the early Middle Ages. Anglo-Saxon writers and craftsmen describe artefacts and animals through riddling forms or enigmatic language, balancing an attempt to speak and listen to things with an understanding that these nonhumans often elude, defy and withdraw from us. But the active role that things have in the early medieval world is also linked to the Germanic origins of the word, where a žing is a kind of assembly, with the ability to draw together other elements, creating assemblages in which human and nonhuman forces combine. Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture invites us to rethink the concept of voice as a quality that is not simply imposed upon nonhumans but which inheres in their ways of existing and being in the world. It asks us to rethink the concept of agency as arising from within groupings of diverse elements, rather than always emerging from human actors alone." 410 0$aManchester Medieval Literature and Culture (Manchester, England). 606 $aEnglish literature$yOld English, ca. 450-1100$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCivilization, Anglo-Saxon 606 $aMaterial culture$zGreat Britain$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aLiterature$2mup 606 $aAnglo-Saxon$2bicssc 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval$2bisach 606 $aAnglo-Saxon / Old English$2thema 607 $aGreat Britain$2fast 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast 608 $aHistory.$2fast 610 $abeowulf 610 $amaterial culture 610 $afranks casket 610 $aanglo-saxon 610 $amiddle ages 610 $aexeter book 610 $aaldhelm 610 $ast cuthbert 610 $athing theory 610 $adream of the rood 610 $aGrendel's mother 610 $aKingdom of Northumbria 610 $aOld English 610 $aRunes 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCivilization, Anglo-Saxon. 615 0$aMaterial culture$xHistory 615 7$aLiterature 615 7$aAnglo-Saxon 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval 615 7$aAnglo-Saxon / Old English 676 $a829.09 700 $aPaz$b James$0951436 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996552371103316 996 $aNonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture$92150942 997 $aUNISA