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Unlocking the Wordhord

Author : Edward Burroughs Irving
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802048226
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Unlocking the Wordhord written by Edward Burroughs Irving and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anglo-Saxons placed a great deal of importance on wisdom and learning, something Beowulf makes dramatically clear when he uses his 'wordhord' to command respect and admiration from his friends and foes alike. Modern day scholars no longer have recourse to the living language and culture of the Anglo-Saxons, and as a result must turn to their 'wordhords' - the literary, historical, and cultural artefacts that have survived in various degrees of intactness - to learn about life in Anglo-Saxon England. This collection of essays, gathered to honour the memory of the noted Anglo-Saxonist Edward B. Irving, Jr., brings together an international group of leading scholars who take the measure of Anglo-Saxon literary, textual, and lexical studies in the present moment. Ranging from philological and structural studies to ones that explicitly engage a variety of contemporary theoretical issues, they reflect the rich diversity of approaches to be found among Anglo-Saxonists. Subjects addressed include comparative work on Old English and Latin, and on Old English, ancient Greek, and South Slavic, notions of authorship and textual integrity, techniques of editing, heroic poetry, religious verse, lexicography, oral tradition, and material textuality. Offering a fresh reading of some popular pieces and inviting attention to some less-familiar texts, these previously unpublished essays illustrate the latest state of particular techniques for literary/critical analysis, textual recovery, and lexical studies.

The Wordhord

Author : Hana Videen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069123275X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Wordhord written by Hana Videen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English—and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakers Old English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer’s Middle English, Old English—the language of Beowulf—defies comprehension by untrained modern readers. Used throughout much of Britain more than a thousand years ago, it is rich with words that haven’t changed (like word), others that are unrecognizable (such as neorxnawang, or paradise), and some that are mystifying even in translation (gafol-fisc, or tax-fish). In this delightful book, Hana Videen gathers a glorious trove of these gems and uses them to illuminate the lives of the earliest English speakers. We discover a world where choking on a bit of bread might prove your guilt, where fiend-ship was as likely as friendship, and where you might grow up to be a laughter-smith. The Wordhord takes readers on a journey through Old English words and customs related to practical daily activities (eating, drinking, learning, working); relationships and entertainment; health and the body, mind, and soul; the natural world (animals, plants, and weather); locations and travel (the source of some of the most evocative words in Old English); mortality, religion, and fate; and the imagination and storytelling. Each chapter ends with its own “wordhord”—a list of its Old English terms, with definitions and pronunciations. Entertaining and enlightening, The Wordhord reveals the magical roots of the language you’re reading right now: you’ll never look at—or speak—English in the same way again.

The Wordhord

Author : Hana Videen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691232741
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Before the Word was Queer

Author : Stephen Turton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316518736
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Before the Word was Queer written by Stephen Turton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uncovers how same-sex sexuality has been represented in English dictionaries from the early modern to the interwar period.

Scribal Memory and Word Selection

Author : Raymond F. Person Jr.
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 1628373342
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Scribal Memory and Word Selection written by Raymond F. Person Jr. and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What were ancient scribes doing when they copied a manuscript of a literary work? This question is especially problematic when we realize that ancient scribes preserved different versions of the same literary texts. In Scribal Memory and Word Selection: Text Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Raymond F. Person Jr. draws from studies of how words are selected in everyday conversation to illustrate that the same word-selection mechanisms were at work in scribal memory. Using examples from manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, Person provides new ways of understanding the cognitive-linguistic mechanisms at work during the composition/transmission of texts. Person reveals that, while our modern perspective may consider textual variants to be different literary texts, from the perspective of the ancient scribes and their audiences, these variants could still be understood as the same literary text.

Performing the Gospel

Author : Richard A. Horsley
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451411669
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Performing the Gospel written by Richard A. Horsley and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous thinking regarding "oral tradition" imagined a one-way process of transmission, handing down the fairly intact textual chunks that would constitute what we know as the end result, the written Gospels.

Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry

Author : Thomas Birkett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317070992
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry written by Thomas Birkett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry is the first book-length study to compare responses to runic heritage in the literature of Anglo-Saxon England and medieval Iceland. The Anglo-Saxon runic script had already become the preserve of antiquarians at the time the majority of Old English poetry was written down, and the Icelanders recording the mythology associated with the script were at some remove from the centres of runic practice in medieval Scandinavia. Both literary cultures thus inherited knowledge of the runic system and the traditions associated with it, but viewed this literate past from the vantage point of a developed manuscript culture. There has, as yet, been no comprehensive study of poetic responses to this scriptural heritage, which include episodes in such canonical texts as Beowulf, the Old English riddles and the poems of the Poetic Edda. By analysing the inflection of the script through shared literary traditions, this study enhances our understanding of the burgeoning of literary self-awareness in early medieval vernacular poetry and the construction of cultural memory, and furthers our understanding of the relationship between Anglo-Saxon and Norse textual cultures. The introduction sets out in detail the rationale for examining runes in poetry as a literary motif and surveys the relevant critical debates. The body of the volume is comprised of five linked case studies of runes in poetry, viewing these representations through the paradigm of scriptural reconstruction and the validation of contemporary literary, historical and religious sensibilities.

How to Read a Word

Author : Elizabeth Knowles
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199574898
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book How to Read a Word written by Elizabeth Knowles and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to investigating various aspects of individual words, such as their meaning, date of first use, and spelling, with research tools, resources, and examples.

Word as Bond in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the Restoration

Author : J. Douglas Canfield
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512801259
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Word as Bond in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the Restoration written by J. Douglas Canfield and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, the transmission of power in feudal European society depended on a code of fidelity, of political allegiance, and truth to one's word. The word as bond extended to include not only the pledge of allegiance between subject and king, but the troth-plight between lovers, the vow of friendship, and the judicial oath. Society was ultimately based upon a gentleman's or gentlewoman's word that was itself underwritten by the Word of God. J. Douglas Canfield argues that English literature of the feudal epoch placed this master trope of word as bond at the center of conflict. The trope does not passively reflect social reality; rather, it helps to define, to constitute the society and its values. Both society and literature were preoccupied by the contest between fidelity on the one hand and its antithesis, betrayal (with the political and sexual anarchy that it threatened) on the other. In literature, the conflict was usually resolved through supernatural aid, the intervention of the Logos, which guaranteed the validity of the word. Canfield analyzes over 25 representative works, focusing on Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Dryden, in the five dominant modes of aristocratic literature-romance, comedy, lyric, tragedy, and satire. In each chapter, he offers three examples, one from the Middle Ages, one from the Renaissance, and one from the Restoration. Canfield's study proceeds synchronically, attempting to show that the trope is always under stress. The language of heroic romance coexists with the language of subversive comedy and absurdist satire. In an Afterword, he suggests why the trope disappears—not from the discourse, where it remains to this day, but from the center of conflict in English literature after 1688.

The Art and Thought of the "Beowulf" Poet

Author : Leonard Neidorf
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501766910
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Art and Thought of the "Beowulf" Poet written by Leonard Neidorf and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet, Leonard Neidorf explores the relationship between Beowulf and the legendary tradition that existed prior to its composition. The Beowulf poet inherited an amoral heroic tradition, which focused principally on heroes compelled by circumstances to commit horrendous deeds: fathers kill sons, brothers kill brothers, and wives kill husbands. Medieval Germanic poets relished the depiction of a hero's unyielding response to a cruel fate, but the Beowulf poet refused to construct an epic around this traditional plot. Focusing instead on a courteous and pious protagonist's fight against monsters, the poet creates a work that is deeply untraditional in both its plot and its values. In Beowulf, the kin-slayers and oath-breakers of antecedent tradition are confined to the background, while the poet fills the foreground with unconventional characters, who abstain from transgression, display courtly etiquette, and express monotheistic convictions. Comparing Beowulf with its medieval German and Scandinavian analogues, The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet argues that the poem's uniqueness reflects one poet's coherent plan for the moral renovation of an amoral heroic tradition. In Beowulf, Neidorf discerns the presence of a singular mind at work in the combination and modification of heroic, folkloric, hagiographical, and historical materials. Rather than perceive Beowulf as an impersonally generated object, Neidorf argues that it should be read as the considered result of one poet's ambition to produce a morally edifying, theologically palatable, and historically plausible epic out of material that could not independently constitute such a poem.

Survival and Success of an Apocryphal Childhood of Jesus

Author : Marijana Vukovic
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110752786
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Survival and Success of an Apocryphal Childhood of Jesus written by Marijana Vukovic and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the transformations of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas in the Middle Ages. It also connects the different representations of children, childhood, everyday- and family life in the distinct textual versions to the ancient and medieval settings in which they appear. The text survived and influenced ideas and mentalities that shaped medieval minds in the East and the West, but also enhanced anti-Jewish sentiments.

Unriddling the Exeter Riddles

Author : Patrick J. Murphy
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271078170
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Unriddling the Exeter Riddles written by Patrick J. Murphy and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vibrant and enigmatic Exeter Riddles (ca. 960–980) are among the most compelling texts in the field of medieval studies, in part because they lack textually supplied solutions. Indeed, these ninety-five Old English riddles have become so popular that they have even been featured on posters for the London Underground and have inspired a sculpture in downtown Exeter. Modern scholars have responded enthusiastically to the challenge of solving the Riddles, but have generally examined them individually. Few have considered the collection as a whole or in a broader context. In this book, Patrick Murphy takes an innovative approach, arguing that in order to understand the Riddles more fully, we must step back from the individual puzzles and consider the group in light of the textual and oral traditions from which they emerged. He offers fresh insights into the nature of the Exeter Riddles’ complexity, their intellectual foundations, and their lively use of metaphor.

Medieval Futurity

Author : Will Rogers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501513702
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Futurity written by Will Rogers and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays asks contributors to take the capaciousness of the word "queer" to heart in order to think about what medieval queers would have looked like and how they may have existed on the margins and borders of dominant, normative sexuality and desire. The contributors work with recent trends in queer medieval studies, blending together modern concepts of sexuality and desire with the queer configurations of eroticism, desire, and materiality as they might have existed for medieval audiences.

The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook

Author : Mark C. Amodio
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118286502
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook written by Mark C. Amodio and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook presents an accessible introduction to the surviving works of prose and poetry produced in Anglo-Saxon England, from AD 410-1066. Makes Anglo-Saxon literature accessible to modern readers Helps readers to overcome the linguistic, aesthetic and cultural barriers to understanding and appreciating Anglo-Saxon verse and prose Introduces readers to the language, politics, and religion of the Anglo-Saxon literary world Presents original readings of such works as Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Edgar, King of the English, 959-975

Author : Alexander R. Rumble
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843839288
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Edgar, King of the English, 959-975 written by Alexander R. Rumble and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh assessments of Edgar's reign, reappraising key elements using documentary, coin, and pictorial evidence.

New Readings in the Vercelli Book

Author : Andy Orchard
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 080209869X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book New Readings in the Vercelli Book written by Andy Orchard and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Readings in the Vercelli Book addresses central questions concerning the manuscript's intended use, mode of compilation, and purpose, and offers a variety of approaches on such topics as orthography, style, genre, theme, and source-study.

Traditional Elegy

Author : R. Scott Garner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199842414
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Traditional Elegy written by R. Scott Garner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though often assumed by scholars to be a product of traditional, and perhaps oral, compositional practices comparable to those found in early Greek epic, archaic elegy has not until this point been analyzed in similar detail with respect to such verse-making techniques. This volume is intended to redress some of this imbalance by exploring several issues related to the production of Greek elegiac poetry. By investigating elegy's metrical partitioning and its localizing patterns of repeated phraseology, Traditional Elegy makes clear that the oral-formulaic processes lying at the heart of Homeric epic bear close resemblance to those that also originally made archaic elegy possible. However, the volume's argument is then able to be pressed even further by looking at the most common metrical "anomaly" in early elegy-epic correption-in order to demonstrate that elegiac poets in the Archaic Period were not simply mimicking an earlier productive style but were actively engaging with such traditional techniques in order to produce and reproduce their own poems. Because correption exhibits several patterns of employment that depend upon the meshing and adapting of traditional phraseological units, it becomes clear that in elegy--just as it is in epic--this metrical phenomenon is inextricably entwined with traditional techniques of verse-composition, and we therefore have strong evidence that elegiac poets of the Archaic Period were still making active use of these oral-formulaic techniques, even if actual oral composition itself cannot be proven for any individual author or poetic fragment. The implications of such findings are quite large, as they require a wholesale shift in our modern methods of inquiry into elegy for a wide range of concerns of meter, phraseology, and even the much broader issues of intended meaning and overall aesthetics.