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Anglo-Saxon England (Paperback)
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Anglo-Saxon England (Paperback)
Series: Anglo-Saxon England, Volume 31
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One of the most important manuscripts surviving from pre-Conquest
England receives penetrating analysis by several scholars. The
'Junius Manuscript' is evaluated from a number of intersecting
perspectives, including codicology, decoration, script and
punctuation; the confluence of these permits a fresh and convincing
dating of this crucially important witness to Old English poetry.
This demonstration is strikingly corroborated by an independent
analysis of the textual transmission of one of the poems contained
in the manuscript - Daniel - which is analysed in connection with
another poetic version of the same biblical text, here entitled
Three Youths, preserved in the 'Exeter Book'. AElfric's conception
of the creation and fall of the angels is also studied, and this
takes us back to a poem in the 'Junius Manuscript', that known as
Genesis A. It is shown that AElfric's conception of the angels,
which has no antecedent in the Bible itself, could possibly have
been framed by his reading of Genesis A. The usual comprehensive
bibliography of the previous year's publications is provided.
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