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Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 30) - Hardcover

 
9780521623728: Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 30)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521623723 ISBN 13: 9780521623728
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

This innovative collection of essays aims to redefine the limits of Old English scholarship by studying some of the latest reworkings of texts composed earlier in the Anglo-Saxon period and their implications for the development of literary production across time. The essays in the volume constitute new work on a wide range of texts, including homilies, saints' lives, psalters and biblical material; some focus on individual manuscripts incorporating paleographic and orthographic studies; others use modern critical theory to examine later Old English texts; and all highlight the need to redefine our attitude to late recopying. The volume engages with important issues, including the nature of textual transmission and recomposition and its relationship to late Old English reader response.

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Book Description

This volume makes a case for the importance of texts written in Old English in the twelfth (and early thirteenth) century, a period hitherto neglected by scholars because of its late date. The ten newly commissioned essays will be of great interest to historians, linguists, English, Anglo-Norman and Latin literature scholars and manuscript specialists, covering a wide variety of significant issues (production, audience, contents, uses amongst others). There is no comparable monograph available on twelfth-century Old English; this book marks the first substantial publication in this new and growing field.

Review

"At a time when scholars are questioning traditional periodization, this volume will prove invaluable both as a resource on work already accomplished on twelfth-century Old English and as a multifaceted approach to rethinking the limits of the field." SPECULUM

"Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century is an admirably scholarly collection of essays, and it opens up new directions for the study of English literary activity in the twelfth century." JEGP

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521623723
ISBN 13 
9780521623728
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
236
Editor
Swan Mary, Treharne Elaine M.