Old English tradition: essays in honor of J.R. Hall
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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Brady, Lindy 1986- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Tempe, Arizona Arizona Center for Medieval & Remaissance Studies 2021
Schriftenreihe:Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 578
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Abstract: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.0The 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
Umfang:xxiii, 339 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
ISBN:9780866986366