Secular Learning in Anglo-Saxon England

Secular Learning in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: László Sándor Chardonnens
Publisher: Brill Rodopi
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789042035461

The fruits of Anglo-Saxon learning continue to captivate Anglo-Saxonists and scholars of natural science and medicine, witness recent publications such as Martin Blake's edition of Ælfric's De temporibus anni (2009), and the proceedings of the Storehouses of Wholesome Learning and Leornungcræft projects. In 1992, Stephanie Hollis and Michael Wright took stock of secular learning in the vernacular, in their monumental annotated bibliography Old English Prose of Secular Learning. The present volume surveys and evaluates advances in the study of Anglo-Saxon secular learning from the past two decades. It also consolidates an ongoing interest in scholarship by Anglo-Saxons by presenting nine original essays that focus on the disciplines of law, encyclopaedic notes, computus, medicine, charms, and prognostication, with a focus on learning in the vernacular, or the relationship between Latin and the vernacular. This volume is of interest for Anglo-Saxonists who work with vernacular sources of learning, and for historians of law, natural science, medicine, divination and magic.

Old English Prose of Secular Learning

Old English Prose of Secular Learning
Author: Stephanie Hollis
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1992
Genre: Anglo-Saxons
ISBN: 9780859913430

First title in a new series of annotated bibliographies -- includes prose proverbs, romances, computistical texts, Enchiridion, magico- medical literature, etc.

The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium)

The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium)
Author: Kazutomo Karasawa
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2015
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1843844095

First modern text and English translation of an important Anglo-Saxon poem dealing with the liturgical year.

Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England

Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Michael Lapidge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 494
Release: 1985
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521259029

An collection of essays by specialists in the field examining Anglo-Saxon learning and text interpretation and transmission.

Alfredian Prologues and Epilogues

Alfredian Prologues and Epilogues
Author: Susan Irvine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2024-02-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0192884697

The Old English literary works traditionally associated with King Alfred are furnished with an array of prologues, epilogues, and other frame texts. These texts give fascinating glimpses into the ideas and contexts underlying the composition and reception of the Alfredian corpus. They draw attention to the ways in which authority and authorship interacted in the period and to contemporary perceptions of poetry and prose. This new edition addresses the contextual, critical, and theoretical issues raised by the frame texts, including their relationship to earlier traditions of prologue and epilogue, their engagement with English as a literary language, and their implications for the authorship debate. The texts are edited here for the first time in a single volume, with a facing-page modern English translation and a wide range of explanatory material.

Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture

Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 669
Release: 2015-10-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004306455

The spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ’s wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured saints who miraculously heal through divine intervention, to graphic accounts of battlefield and tournament wounds—evidence of which survives in the archaeological record—and literary episodes of fatal (or not so fatal) wounds. This volume offers a comprehensive look at the complexity of wounding and wound repair in medieval literature and culture, bringing together essays from a wide range of sources and disciplines including arms and armaments, military history, medical history, literature, art history, hagiography, and archaeology across medieval and early modern Europe. Contributors are Stephen Atkinson, Debby Banham, Albrecht Classen, Joshua Easterling, Charlene M. Eska, Carmel Ferragud, M.R. Geldof, Elina Gertsman, Barbara A. Goodman, Máire Johnson, Rachel E. Kellett, Ilana Krug, Virginia Langum, Michael Livingston, Iain A. MacInnes, Timothy May, Vibeke Olson, Salvador Ryan, William Sayers, Patricia Skinner, Alicia Spencer-Hall, Wendy J. Turner, Christine Voth, and Robert C. Woosnam-Savage.

Aspects of knowledge

Aspects of knowledge
Author: Marilina Cesario
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2018-04-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1526107023

This edited collection explores how knowledge was preserved and reinvented in the Middle Ages. Rather than focusing on a historical period or specific cultural and historical events, it eschews traditional categories of periodisation and discipline, establishing connections and cross-sections between different departments of knowledge. The essays cover the period from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, examining the history of science (computus, prognostication), the history of art, literature, theology (homilies, prayers, hagiography, contemplative texts), music, historiography and geography. Aspects of knowledge is aimed at an academic readership, including advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as specialists in medieval literature, history of science, history of knowledge, geography, theology, music, philosophy, intellectual history, history of language and material culture.

The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints

The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints
Author: Rhonda L McDaniel
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2018-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1580443109

In The Third Gender, McDaniel addresses the idea of the "third gender" in early hagiography and Latin treatises on virginity and then examines Aelfric's treatment of gender in his translations of Latin monastic Lives for his non-monastic audiences. She first investigates patristic ideas about a "third gender" by describing this concept within the theoretical frameworks of monasticism and then turns to creating a historical and theological cultural context within which to locate an interpretation of Aelfric's portrayals of male and female saints.