Author : Janet Schrunk Ericksen
Release : 2020-11-19
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Reading Old English Biblical 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 Reading Old English Biblical Poetry write by Janet Schrunk Ericksen. This book was released on 2020-11-19. Reading Old English Biblical Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reading Old English Biblical Poetry considers the Junius 11 manuscript, the only surviving illustrated book of Old English poetry, in terms of its earliest readers and their multiple strategies of reading and making meaning. Junius 11 begins with the creation story and ends with the final vanquishing of Satan by Jesus. The manuscript is both a continuous whole and a collection with discontinuities and functionally independent pieces. The chapters of Reading Old English Biblical Poetry propose multiple models for reader engagement with the texts in this manuscript, including selective and sequential reading, reading in juxtaposition, and reading in contexts within and outside of the pages of Junius 11. The study is framed by particular attention to the materiality of the manuscript and how that might have informed its early reception, and it broadens considerations of reading beyond those of the manuscript's compiler and possible patron. As a book, Junius 11 reflects a rich and varied culture of reading that existed in and beyond houses of God in England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and it points to readers who had enough experience to select and find wisdom, narrative pleasure, and a diversity of other things within this or any book's contents.