Religious piety has rarely been animated as vigorously as in Old
English Poems of Christ and His Saints. Ranging from lyrical to
dramatic to narrative, the individual poems show great
inventiveness in reimagining perennial Christian topics. In
different poems, for example, Christ expels Lucifer from heaven,
resists the devil's temptation on earth, mounts the cross with zeal
to face death, harrows hell at the urging of John the Baptist,
appears in disguise to pilot a ship, and presides over the Last
Judgment. Satan and the fallen angels lament their plight in a
vividly imagined hell and plot against Christ and his saints. In
Andreas the poet relates, in language reminiscent of Beowulf, the
tribulations of the apostles Andrew and Matthew in a city of
cannibals. In The Vision of the Cross (also known as The Dream of
the Rood), the cross speaks as a Germanic warrior intolerably torn
between the imperative to protect his Lord and the duty to become
his means of execution. In Guthlac A, an Anglo-Saxon warrior
abandons his life of violence to do battle as a hermit against
demons in the fens of Lincolnshire. As a collection these ten
anonymous poems vividly demonstrate the extraordinary hybrid that
emerges when traditional Germanic verse adapts itself to Christian
themes. Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints complements the
saints' lives found in The Old English Poems of Cynewulf, DOML 23.
General
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library |
| Release date: |
November 2013 |
| First published: |
November 2013 |
| Editors: |
Mary Clayton
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| Dimensions: |
210 x 145 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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| Pages: |
432 |
| Edition: |
New |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-05318-2 |
| Languages: |
English
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| Subtitles: |
English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
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| Categories: |
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Literature: texts >
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| LSN: |
0-674-05318-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780674053182 |
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