Seasons for Fasting, a late Old English poem probably composed in
the early eleventh century, focuses on proper fasting observances
in England. This poem, composed in eight-line stanzas, survives
only in a sixteenth-century transcript made by the antiquary
Laurence Nowell. With its topics, vocabulary, sources, and style
derived from those of contemporary ecclesiastical prose, it belongs
to a school of late tenth/early eleventh century poetry that only
now is coming to be recognized and defined. The Old English Poem
Seasons for Fasting: A Critical Edition provides a new text and
translation of the poem, accompanied by an extensive introduction,
commentary, and glossary. The introduction includes analyses of the
poem's manuscript origins, sources, language, meter, style, and
structure. The text is collated with all previous editions. The
commentary elucidates points of grammar and style, and justifies
all editorial decisions. The glossary covers every instance of each
word in the poem. Since its discovery among the papers of Laurence
Nowell in 1934, the poem has had only four editions, two of the
text with basic notes, and two in doctoral theses with more
commentary and analysis. This new edition brings the latest
resources on manuscript study, lexicon (through the Concordance and
Dictionary of Old English A-G), poetics, and cultural milieu to
bear on this fascinating poem. The apparatus, including the
glossary, will allow fellow scholars to extend these findings
through links to their own work.
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