The Cambridge history of early medieval English literature / edited by Clare A. Lees.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lees, Clare A., editor.

Series:

New Cambridge history of English literature

The new Cambridge history of English literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 789 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Informed by multi-cultural, multidisciplinary perspectives, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature offers a new exploration of the earliest writing in Britain and Ireland, from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-twelfth century. Beginning with an account of writing itself, as well as of scripts and manuscript art, subsequent chapters examine the earliest texts from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and the tremendous breadth of Anglo-Latin literature. Chapters on English learning and literature in the ninth century and the later formation of English poetry and prose also convey the profound cultural confidence of the period. Providing a discussion of essential texts, including Beowulf and the writings of Bede, this History captures the sheer inventiveness and vitality of early medieval literary culture through topics as diverse as the literature of English law, liturgical and devotional writing, the workings of science and the history of women's writing.

Contents:

Introduction : literature in Britain and Ireland to 1150 / Clare A. Lees

Part I. Word, Script and Image

1. Writing in Britain and Ireland, c. 400 to c. 800 / Julia M.H. Smith

2. The art of writing : scripts and scribal production / Julia Crick

3. Art and writing : voice, image, object / Catherine E. Karkov

4. Of Bede's 'five languages and four nations' : the earliest writing from Ireland, Scotland and Wales / Máire Ní Mhaonaigh

5. Insular Latin literature to 900 / Rosalind Love

6. Bede and the northern kingdoms / S.M. Rowley

Part II. Early English Literature

7. Across borders : Anglo-Saxon England and the Germanic world / Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr.

8. English literature in the ninth century / Susan Irvine

9. The writing of history in the early Middle Ages : the Anglo-Saxon chronicle in context / Renée R. Trilling ; 10. The literary languages of Old English : words, styles, voices / Joshua Davies

11. Old English poetic form : genre, style, prosody / Haruko Momma

12. Beowulf : a poem in our time / Gillian R. Overing

13. Old English lyrics : a poetics of experience / Kathleen Davis

14. Literature in pieces : female sanctity and the relics of early women's writing / Diane Watt

15. Saintly lives : friendship, kinship, gender and sexuality / L.M.C. Weston

16. Sacred history and Old English religious poetry / Andrew Scheil

17. Performing Christianity : liturgical and devotional writing / Christopher A. Jones

18. Riddles, wonder and responsiveness in Anglo-Saxon literature / Patricia Dailey

Part III. Latin Learning and the Literary Vernaculars

19. In measure, and number, and weight : writing science / R.M. Liuzza

20. Legal documentation and the practice of English law / Lisi Oliver

21. Latinities, 893-1143 / David Townsend

22. The authority of English, 900-1150 / Elaine Treharne

23. Crossing the language divide : Anglo-Scandinavian language and literature / Russell Poole

24. European literature and eleventh-century England / Thomas O' Donnell, Matthew Townend and Elizabeth M. Tyler

25. Gaelic literature in Ireland and Scotland, 900-1150 / Thomas Owen Clancy

26. Writing in Welsh to 1150 : (re)creating the past, shaping the future / Sioned Davies.

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ISBN:

9781139035637 (ebook)

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