The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901 - 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 The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901 write by John D. Niles. This book was released on 2015-09-28. The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Idea of Anglo Saxon England, 1066-1901 presents the first systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies have evolved from their beginnings to the twentieth century Tells the story of how the idea of Anglo-Saxon England evolved from the Anglo-Saxons themselves to the Victorians, serving as a myth of origins for the English people, their language, and some of their most cherished institutions Combines original research with established scholarship to reveal how current conceptions of English identity might be very different if it were not for the discovery – and invention – of the Anglo-Saxon past Reveals how documents dating from the Anglo-Saxon era have greatly influenced modern attitudes toward nationhood, race, religious practice, and constitutional liberties Includes more than fifty images of manuscripts, early printed books, paintings, sculptures, and major historians of the era
Printing Anglo-Saxon from Parker to Hickes and Wanley
Printing Anglo-Saxon from Parker to Hickes and Wanley - 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 Printing Anglo-Saxon from Parker to Hickes and Wanley write by Peter J. Lucas. This book was released on 2024-05-22. Printing Anglo-Saxon from Parker to Hickes and Wanley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers something new, a full-length study of printing Anglo-Saxon (Old English) from 1566 to 1705, combining analysis of content and form of production. It starts from the end-product and addresses the practical issues of providing for printing Anglo-Saxon authentically, and why this was done. The book tells a story that is largely Cambridge-orientated until Oxford made an impact, largely thanks to Franciscus Junius from Leiden. There is a catalogue of all books containing Anglo-Saxon, with full details of their use of manuscript or printed sources. This information allows us to see how knowledge of Anglo-Saxon grew and developed.
Reconstructing Alliterative Verse
Reconstructing Alliterative Verse - 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 Reconstructing Alliterative Verse write by Ian Cornelius. This book was released on 2017-07-20. Reconstructing Alliterative Verse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the history and development of English alliterative meter, and considers why the form has remained so enigmatic.
Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain
Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain - 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 Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain write by Tiffany Beechy. This book was released on 2023-06-15. Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This rich study takes Insular art on its own terms, revealing a distinctive and unorthodox theology that will inevitably change how scholars view the long arc of English piety and the English literary tradition. Drawing on a wide range of critical methodologies, Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain treats this era as a “contact zone” of cultural clash and exchange, where Christianity encountered a rich amalgam of practices and attitudes, particularly regarding the sensible realm. Tiffany Beechy illustrates how local cultures, including the Irish learned tradition, received the “Word that was made flesh,” the central figure of Christian doctrine, in distinctive ways: the Word, for example, was verbal, related to words and signs, and was not at all ineffable. Likewise, the Word was often poetic—an enigma—and its powerful presence was not only hinted at (as St. Augustine would have it) but manifest in the mouth or on the page. Beechy examines how these Insular traditions received and expressed a distinctly iterable Incarnation. Often disavowed and condemned by orthodox authorities, this was in large part an implicit theology, expressed or embodied in form (such as art, compilation, or metaphor) rather than in treatises. Beechy demonstrates how these forms drew on various authorities especially important to Britain—Bede, Gregory the Great, and Isidore most prominent among them. Beechy’s study provides a prehistory in the English literary tradition for the better-known experimental poetics of Middle English devotion. The book is unusual in the diversity of its primary material, which includes visual art, including the Book of Kells; obscure and often cursorily treated texts such as Adamnán’s De locis sanctis (“On the holy lands”); and the difficult esoterica of the wisdom tradition.
Fossil Poetry
Fossil Poetry - 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 Fossil Poetry write by Chris Jones. This book was released on 2018-08-08. Fossil Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fossil Poetry provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction and 'invention' of Anglo-Saxon in and by nineteenth-century poetry. Fossil Poetry takes its title from a famous passage on 'early' language in the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and uses the metaphor of the fossil to contextualize poetic Anglo-Saxonism within the developments that had been taking place in the fields of geology, palaeontology, and the evolutionary life sciences since James Hutton's apprehension of 'deep time' in his 1788 Theory of the Earth. Fossil Poetry argues that two, roughly consecutive phases of poetic Anglo-Saxonism took place over the course of the nineteenth century: firstly, a phase of 'constant roots' whereby Anglo-Saxon is constructed to resemble, and so to legitimize a tradition of English Romanticism conceived as essential and unchanging; secondly, a phase in which the strangeness of many of the 'extinct' philological forms of early English is acknowledged, and becomes concurrent with a desire to recover and recuperate the fossils of Anglo-Saxon within contemporary English poetry. The volume advances new readings of work by a variety of poets including Walter Scott, Henry Longfellow, William Wordsworth, William Barnes, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Morris, Alfred Tennyson, and Gerard Hopkins.
