Textual Identities in Early Medieval England - Essays in Honour of Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe (Hardcover)

New approaches to a range of Old English texts. Throughout her career, Professor Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe has focused on the often-overlooked details of early medieval textual life, moving from the smallest punctum to a complete reframing of the humanities' biggest questions. In her hands, the traditional tools of medieval studies -- philology, paleography, and close reading - become a fulcrum to reveal the unspoken worldviews animating early medieval textual production. The essays collected here both honour and reflect her influence as a scholar and teacher. They cover Latin works, such as the writings of Prudentius and Bede, along with vernacular prose texts: the Pastoral Care, the OE Boethius, the law codes, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and AElfric's Lives of Saints. The Old English poetic corpus is also considered, with a focus on less-studied works, including Genesis and Fortunes of Men. This diverse array of texts provides a foundation for the volume's analysis of agency, identity, and subjectivity in early medieval England; united in their methodology, the articles in this collection all question received wisdom and challenge critical consensus on key issues of humanistic inquiry, among them affect and embodied cognition, sovereignty and power, and community formation.

General

Imprint:	D.S. Brewer
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Anglo-Saxon Studies
Release date:	March 2022
First published:	2022
Editors:	Rebecca Stephenson • Jacqueline Fay (Author) • Renee R Trilling (Author)
Contributors:	Leslie Lockett (Author) • Nicole Discenza (Customer) • Jennifer Lorden • Benjamin Saltzman (Person) • Stacy S. Klein • Emily V Thornbury (Person) • Jacob Hobson
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	346
ISBN-13:	978-1-84384-624-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
LSN:	1-84384-624-1
Barcode:	9781843846246

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