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Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature
, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 442 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:17 b/w, 7 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503599571.
Summary Across three thematically-linked sections, this volume charts the development of competing geographical, national, and imperial identities and communities in early medieval England. Literary works in Old English and Latin are considered alongside theological and historical texts from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Accounts of travel, foreign contacts, conversion, migration, landscape, nation, empire, and conquest are set within the continual flow of people and ideas from East to West, from continent to island and back, across the period. The fifteen contributors investigate how the early medieval English positioned themselves spatially and temporally in relation to their insular neighbours and other peoples and cultures. Several chapters explore the impact of Greek and Latin learning on Old English literature, while others extend the discussion beyond the parameters of Europe to consider connections with Asia and the Far East. Together these essays reflect ideas of inclusivity and exclusivity, connectivity and apartness, multiculturalism and insularity that shaped pre-Conquest England. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments, List of Figures, List of Abbreviations Introduction: Foreign Contacts, Landscapes, and Empire-Building ? MARK ATHERTON, KAZUTOMO KARASAWA, AND FRANCIS LENEGHAN Here, There, and Everywhere? Alfred and the East ? DANIEL ANLEZARK The Wanderings of Saturn: Psychogeography, Psalms, and Solomon and Saturn ? RACHEL BURNS Otherwheres in the Prose Texts of the Nowell Codex ? S. C. THOMSON Rome away from Rome: India, Rome, and England in Ælfric's 'Life of St Thomas' ? LUISA OSTACCHINI Christ Embracing the World: Ælfric's Description of the Crucifixion in 'De Passione Domini' ? KAZUTOMO KARASAWA A Place in the World Babel and Beyond: Thinking Through Migration in Genesis A ? DANIEL THOMAS The Sound-World of Early Medieval England: A Case Study of the Exeter Book Storm Riddle ? BRITTON BROOKS The Place of Stillness: Greek Patristic Thought in Cynewulf's Juliana ? ELENI PONIRAKIS St Rumwold in the Borderland ? HANNAH BAILEY The World of Ealdorman Byrhtnoth: A Landscape Biography ? MARK ATHERTON Nation and Empire Mapping Empire: Two World Maps in Early Medieval England ? HELEN APPLETON Good Neighbours? Representations of Britons, Welsh, Picts, and Scots in Pre-Conquest English Sources ? CAITLIN ELLIS From (North-)East to West: Geographical Identities and Political Communities in the Ninth- to Eleventh-Century Anglo-Scandinavian World ? RYAN LAVELLE Kings, People, and Lands: The Rhetoric of The Battle of Brunanburh?PAUL CAVILL End of Empire? Reading?The Death of Edward?in MS Cotton Tiberius B I ? FRANCIS LENEGHAN Index
Saints' Lives for Medieval English Nuns, I. A Study of the 'Lyves and Dethes' in Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604
, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, xxxii + 398 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:24 b/w, 8 col., 5 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503545516.
Summary Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604 contains a unique prose legendary almost entirely of female saints, all of whom are virgins, martyrs, or nuns. The manuscript, which also has varied post-medieval items, is written in one hand probably dating from c. 1480 to c. 1510. This previously unstudied Middle English collection features twenty-two universal and native saints, both common (like John the Baptist and Æthelthryth) and rare (such as Wihtburh and Domitilla). These texts are dependent on a complex mixture of Latin sources and analogues. Specific linguistic and art-historical features, as well as attention to the predominant female saints of Ely and post-medieval provenance, suggest an East Anglian convent for the original readership. Through an exploration of the manuscript and its later ownership (both recusant and antiquarian), a discussion of its linguistic attributes, a consideration of local female monastic and book history, a comparison of hagiographical texts, and a wide-ranging source and analogue study, this Study fully contextualises these Middle English lives. The book concludes with a survey of the structural and stylistic aspects of the texts, followed by three appendices, and an extensive bibliography. The texts are edited for the first time in its companion volume, Saints' Lives for Medieval English Nuns, II: An Edition of the 'Lyves and Dethes' in Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface I. The Manuscript II. Language and Dialectal Provenance III. Convent and Geographical Location IV. Hagiographical Context and the Selection of Saints V. Latin Sources and Analogues VI. Reading the ?Lyves and Dethes' Conclusion Appendix 1. Universal Latin Saints' Lives: Sources and Analogues Appendix 2. Latin and Middle English Versions of Athelthryth Appendix 3. Middle English Translations of John the Evangelist Bibliography Index
Presence of Medieval English Literature Studies at the Interface of History, Author, and Text in a Selection of Middle English Literary Landmarks,
Turnhout, Brepols, 2012 Hardback, X+304 p., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503536804.
Negotiations between history, author, and text in a selection of Middle English literary landmarks. The modern period has read its own contingent values into Middle English literature, and a modern canon of vernacular medieval literary texts has evolved as a result. While this book works with a selection of texts that have achieved such canonical status, it brings to light some of the ways in which they nevertheless resist the flattening domestications and expectations of modern taste. It illustrates how they formerly existed as constituents of a past world richer, stranger, and less familiar than much modern opinion has supposed. Thus the book aims to recuperate lost senses in which the age in which these texts were conceived and written was present within them, as well as ways in which they may have been present to their age. This twin idea of ?presence? is the thread that binds a series of chapters on English verse and prose written between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries together. While they may be read as discrete studies of individual literary landmarks, the chapters also entail an implicit and ramifying demonstration of the shortcomings of some modern views of what makes certain currently prized Middle English texts worth reading, and of how the vernacular literature of medieval England is retrospectively to be defined and periodized. Languages : English, Italian, Latin.
Mortality and Imagination. The Life of the Dead in Medieval English Literature,
Turnhout, Brepols, 2012 Hardback, XIII+304 p., 11 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503524313.
More than any single volume has so far attempted, Mortality and Imagination is devoted to the history and literary 'life' of the dead in medieval writing. There have been many books on the medieval culture of death, but this book is the first devoted to the use and representation of the dead in English medieval writing. Mortality and Imagination is a history of the literary 'life' of the dead - in their narrative, aesthetic, and ideological formulation - a theme which up to now has been explored only fragmentarily, available only in studies of particular genres. Kenneth Rooney's book explores a wider range of texts and genres than has been attempted before, and reads the vernacular representation of the dead against the impact of one of the most intriguing cultural phenomena of the Middle Ages - the macabre - a rhetorical and artistic idiom designed to evoke the dead at their most horrifying. Tracing the models for the representation of the dead available to English writers, he offers fresh readings of texts both familiar and neglected, including sermons, tale collections, romances, drama, lyrics, and other genres in the period c.1100-1550. This book is a stimulating appraisal of the impact, in medieval insular contexts, of an international idea of great longevity and significance, and makes an important contribution to the study of death, belief, and society in pre-modern Europe. Languages : English, Old English, French.
Gathering of Medieval English Recipes
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2008 Hardcover. 170 p., 160 x 240 mm, Languages: English, Middle English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503528984.
This book is a collection of medieval English culinary recipes which have not been edited before. Some of them come from brief collections which have not been previously published, or are found in isolation or very small groups in manuscripts which do not contain such collections. Others come from collections which have been used, or viewed, primarily for collation, but which contain other recipes which had not yet been noted. It was the author's object to gather together all the recipes which had not been edited and published, or are not currently being edited by others, to make the record of English recipes of this period as complete as possible. The volume concludes with a supplement to the recently published Concordance of English Recipes: Thirteenth Through Fifteenth Centuries, adding all the "new" recipes to that Concordance, except for a few which are so fragmentary as not to deserve listing.
