Runes and Roman Letters in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Runes and Roman Letters in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts write by Victoria Symons. This book was released on 2016-10-24. Runes and Roman Letters in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents the first comprehensive study of Anglo-Saxon manuscript texts containing runic letters. To date there has been no comprehensive study of these works in a single volume, although the need for such an examination has long been recognized. This is in spite of a growing academic interest in the mise-en-page of early medieval manuscripts. The texts discussed in this study include Old English riddles and elegies, the Cynewulfian poems, charms, Solomon and Saturn I, and the Old English Rune Poem. The focus of the discussion is on the literary analysis of these texts in their palaeographic and runological contexts. Anglo-Saxon authors and scribes did not, of course, operate within a vacuum, and so these primary texts are considered alongside relevant epigraphic inscriptions, physical objects, and historical documents. Victoria Symons argues that all of these runic works are in various ways thematically focused on acts of writing, visual communication, and the nature of the written word. The conclusion that emerges over the course of the book is that, when encountered in the context of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, runic letters consistently represent the written word in a way that Roman letters do not.
Runes and Runic Inscriptions
Runes and Runic Inscriptions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Runes and Runic Inscriptions write by Raymond Ian Page. This book was released on 1998. Runes and Runic Inscriptions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays that comprise this study range from detailed discussion of the forms of particular runes in the runic alphabet to the wider matters on which runes throw light, such as magic, paganism, literacy and linguistic change.
An Introduction to English Runes
An Introduction to English Runes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Introduction to English Runes write by Raymond Ian Page. This book was released on 2006. An Introduction to English Runes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction to the use of runes as a practical script for a variety of purposes in Anglo-Saxon England. Runes are quite frequently mentioned in modern writings, usually imprecisely as a source of mystic knowledge, power or insight. This book sets the record straight. It shows runes working as a practical script for a variety of purposes in early English times, among both indigenous Anglo-Saxons and incoming Vikings. In a scholarly yet readable way it examines the introduction of the runic alphabet (the futhorc) to England in the fifth and sixth centuries, the forms and values of its letters, and the ways in which it developed, up until its decline at the end of the Anglo-Saxon period. It discusses how runes were used for informal and day-to-day purposes, on formal monuments, as decorative letters in prestigious manuscripts, for owners' or makers' names on everyday objects, perhaps even in private letters. For the first time, the book presents, together with earlier finds, the many runic objects discovered over the last twenty years, with a range of inscriptions on bone, metal and stone, even including tourists' scratched signatures found on the pilgrimage routes through Italy. It gives an idea of the immense range of informationon language and social history contained in these unique documents. The late R.I. PAGE was former Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge.
Runes and Roman Letters in the Writing of Old English Manuscripts
Runes and Roman Letters in the Writing of Old English Manuscripts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Runes and Roman Letters in the Writing of Old English Manuscripts write by Victoria Janess DeWilde Symons. This book was released on 2013. Runes and Roman Letters in the Writing of Old English Manuscripts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Runes and Roman Letters in the Writing of Old English Manuscripts
Runes and Roman Letters in the Writing of Old English Manuscripts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Runes and Roman Letters in the Writing of Old English Manuscripts write by V. J. D. W. Symons. This book was released on 2013. Runes and Roman Letters in the Writing of Old English Manuscripts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
