Juliana (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

William Strunk

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0267877609 ISBN 13: 9780267877607

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore the Exeter Book and the poem Juliana through a concise scholarly introduction.

This edition explains the manuscript’s history, its content, and how editors have shaped the text over time. It highlights key poems, notes the book’s physical condition, and reveals how runic signatures helped identify the author behind Juliana and related works.

The material presents the Exeter Book as a 10th–11th century manuscript, with many leaves preserved and others damaged or replaced. It names famous poems and situates Juliana among works like Christ, Guthlac, the Wanderer, and the Seafarer, while tracing the modern discovery and publication of the text. It also describes methods used by editors to correct errors and assemble a readable edition from multiple manuscripts and variants. Readers will gain a clear view of how scholarship progressed from Wanley to Kemble and beyond.

• Learn what a medieval manuscript looks like, including its leaves, size, and condition.
• See how editors reconstruct a text from multiple copies and how variants are handled.
• Discover how runes and acrostics contributed to identifying the author behind Juliana.
• Get context for the book’s place in Anglo-Saxon poetry and manuscript study.

Ideal for readers of poetry history, manuscript studies, and early English literature who want a focused overview without spoilers of the poems’ plots.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0267877609
• ISBN 13: 9780267877607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 185