Old English ecotheology : the Exeter Book / Courtney Catherine Barajas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barajas, Courtney Catherine, author.

Series:

Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exeter book.

Ecotheology.

Physical Description:

230 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This book examines the impact of environmental crises on early medieval English theology and poetry. Like their modern counterparts, theologians at the turn of the first millennium understood the interconnectedness of the Earth community, and affirmed the independent subjectivity of other-than-humans. The author argues for the existence of a specific Old English ecotheology, and demonstrates the influence of that theology on contemporaneous poetry. Taking the Exeter Book as a microcosm of the poetic corpus, she explores the impact of early medieval apocalypticism and environmental anxiety on Old English wisdom poems, riddles, elegies, and saints' lives.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Ælfric, Wulfstan, and the Exeter Book

Chapter Summaries

1. Old English Ecotheology

Medieval and Modern Ecotheology

Conclusions

2. The Web of Creation in Wisdom Poems

Gnome(ish) Wisdom in Old English Poetry

"The Web of Mysteries": Poetic Entanglement in The Order of the World

Mapping Kinship Connections in Maxims I

3. Identity, Affirmation, and Resistance in the Exeter Riddle Collection

Ambiguous interpretation in the Exeter riddle collection

Birds'-Eye View: Riddle 6 and Riddle 7

Heroic Horns and Wounded Wood: Riddles of Transformation

4. Trauma and Apocalypse in the Eco-elegies

Environmental Trauma & Natural Depression in The Wanderer

Apocalypse / Now: The Ruin

5. Mutual Custodianship in the Landscapes of Gudlac A

Home, Alone: GuoTac in the Wilderness

Lessons in Early Medieval English Environmentalism

Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

946372382X

9789463723824

OCLC:

1253755185