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Anglo-Saxon Prognostics
Author | : R. M. Liuzza |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843842556 |
Edition and translation of prognostic guides and calendars, intended as an effort to foretell the future.
Old English Tradition, Volume 578
Author | : John Monfasani |
Publisher | : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2021-01-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780866986366 |
Old English Tradition contains eighteen new essays by leading scholars in the field of Old English literary studies. The collection is centered around five key areas of research--Old English poetics, Anglo-Saxon Christianity, Beowulf, codicology, and early Anglo-Saxon studies--on which the work of scholar J. R. Hall, the volume's honorand, has been influential over the course of his career. The volume's contents range from fresh insights on individual Old English poems such as The Wife's Lament and Beowulf; new studies in Old English metrics and linguistics; codicological examinations of individual manuscripts; fresh editions of understudied texts; and innovative examinations of the role of early antiquarians in shaping the field of Old English literary studies as we know it today.
The Golden Dragon
Author | : Alf J. Mapp |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2014-08-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1590773780 |
King Alfred. Everybody knows that he is called “the Great,” but few remember why. Forgetfulness is strange, for few men have led lives so full of physical, mental, and spiritual adventure, or influenced in so many ways the lives of people in every part of the globe. The Golden Dragon is his fascinating and moving story, told afresh with the aid of recent archaeological evidence and research in four languages. Alfred’s achievements have melted cynicism. Gibbon called him “the greatest of English kings”; Hume, “the greatest man in history.” Voltaire declared, “I know not whether there has ever been a man on earth worthier of posterity’s respect.” When his kingdom was reduced to thirty acres, he fought back with such courage and genius that he expelled the Viking invaders and made possible the saving of Western civilization. His list of accomplishments is amazing: transcendent diplomat, Europe’s greatest naval designer, notable architect, law giver, founder of the oldest literary tradition in the Occident, originator of a system of public education, and producer of translations that have endured a thousand years. The author’s research led him to the conclusion that the ninth-century English kin was the superior of Charlemagne in almost every respect, and indeed was one of the greatest geniuses Western civilization has ever produced. Alfred’s courage, faith, and temperance are enduring examples for modern men.
The Transformation of the Roman World AD 400-900
Author | : Leslie Webster |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780520210608 |
Book accompanies 5 exhibitions. Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-255) and index.
Magic Words
Author | : Craig Conley |
Publisher | : Weiser Books |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1609250508 |
Magic Words: A Dictionary is a oneofakind resource for armchair linguists, popculture enthusiasts, Pagans, Wiccans, magicians, and trivia nuts alike. Brimming with the most intriguing magic words and phrases from around the world and illustrated throughout with magical symbols and icons, Magic Words is a dictionary like no other. More than sevenhundred essay style entries describe the origins of magical words as well as historical and popular variations and fascinating trivia. With sources ranging from ancient Medieval alchemists to modern stage magicians, necromancers, and wizards of legend to miracle workers throughout time, Magic Words is a must have for any scholar of magic, language, history, and culture.
A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972
Author | : Stanley B. Greenfield |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2008-07-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1556356374 |
"Greenfield and Robinson state in their preface that they have sought to include every book, monograph, article, note, and review published on Old English literature since the invention of printing. They have come as close to doing so as two descendants of Adam possibly can, undeterred by the trouble at Babel. (By my count, thirty different languages are represented in the bibliography, sixteen of them frequently.) Rarely has any bibliography in any other discipline equalled the thoroughness and accuracy of this one. It is a contribution for which Greenfield and Robinson will long receive from their colleagues that measure of gratitude reserved for Old English scholarship's most bounteous treasure-givers."--Carl T. Berkhout"What astonishes is how well [Greenfield and Robinson] have succeeded in what they set out to do, how uniformly excellent their volume is in all its profusion of information and detail. . . . The Bibliography will bring scholars that peculiar joy in complex intellectual work done well that only they know; it will be immensely useful, virtually indispensable--if not a vade mecum because of its size . . . then at least an enchiridion with which they will fight their battles on behalf of Beowulf and Brunanburb and the Blickling Homilies."--The Old English Newsletter"[A] volume long needed, [the Bibliography] will now become an indispensable reference work for every student of Old English literature from the beginner to the acknowledged authority."--British Book News