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Source of wisdom : Old English and early medieval Latin studies in honour of Thomas D. Hill / edited by Charles D. Wright, Frederick M. Biggs, and Thomas N. Hall.
LIBRA PR260 .S65 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Toronto Old English series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Latin literature, Medieval and modern--England--History and criticism.
- Latin literature, Medieval and modern.
- England.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 420 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Bufffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- Part I Beowulf
- Beasts of Battle, South and North / Joseph Harris 3
- The Fates of Men in Beowulf / James H. Morey 26
- Folio 179 of the Beowulf Manuscript / Frederick M. Biggs 52
- Part II Old English Religious and Sapiential Poetry
- Trinitarian Language: Augustine, The Dream of the Rood, and Aelfric / James W. Earl 63
- The Leaps of Christ and The Dream of the Rood / James W. Marchand 80
- 'Du eart se weallstan': Architectural Metaphor and Christological Imagery in the Old English Christ I and the Book of Kells / Johanna Kramer 90
- Remembering in Circles: The Wife's Lament, Conversatio, and the Community of Memory / Sachi Shimomura 113
- A Word to the Wise: Thinking, Knowledge, and Wisdom in The Wanderer / Alice Sheppard 130
- Part III Old English Prose
- Alfred's Nero / Paul E. Szarmach 147
- The 'Remigian' Glosses on Boethius's Consolatio Philosophiae in Context / Joseph Wittig 168
- Why Ditch the Dialogues? Reclaiming an Invisible Text / David F. Johnson 201
- Hagiography and Violence: Military Men in Aelfric's Lives of Saints / E. Gordon Whatley 217
- A New Latin Source for Two Old English Homilies (Fadda I and Blickling I): Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo App. 125, and the Ideology of Chastity in the Anglo-Saxon Benedictine Reform / Charles D. Wright 239
- Christ's Birth through Mary's Right Breast: An Echo of Carolingian Heresy in the Old English Adrian and Ritheus / Thomas N. Hall 266
- Part IV Old English beyond the Conquest
- The Peterborough Chronicle and the Invention of 'Holding Court' in Twelfth-Century England / Andrew Galloway 293
- Echoes of Old English Alliterative Collocations in Middle English Alliterative Proverbs / Susan E. Deskis 311
- Part V Early Medieval Latin
- Bede's Style: A Neglected Historiographical Model for the Style of the Historia Ecclesiastica? / Danuta Shanzer 329
- Crux-busting on the Danube: uel Coniectanea in Cosmographiam Aethici, ut dicitur, Istri / Michael W. Herren 353
- The Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius and Scriptural Study at Salisbury in the Eleventh Century / Michael W. Twomey 370
- Appendix 1 Publications of Thomas D. Hill 387
- Appendix 2 Dissertations Directed by Thomas D. Hill 399.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "Publications of Thomas D. Hill": pages [387]-400.
- ISBN:
- 9780802093677
- 0802093671
- OCLC:
- 154746533
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