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Runes and Roman Letters in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (Hardcover, Digital original)
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Runes and Roman Letters in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (Hardcover, Digital original)
Series: Erganzungsbande zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde
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This book presents the first comprehensive study of Anglo-Saxon
manuscript texts containing runic letters. To date there has been
no comprehensive study of these works in a single volume, although
the need for such an examination has long been recognized. This is
in spite of a growing academic interest in the mise-en-page of
early medieval manuscripts. The texts discussed in this study
include Old English riddles and elegies, the Cynewulfian poems,
charms, Solomon and Saturn I, and the Old English Rune Poem. The
focus of the discussion is on the literary analysis of these texts
in their palaeographic and runological contexts. Anglo-Saxon
authors and scribes did not, of course, operate within a vacuum,
and so these primary texts are considered alongside relevant
epigraphic inscriptions, physical objects, and historical
documents. Victoria Symons argues that all of these runic works are
in various ways thematically focused on acts of writing, visual
communication, and the nature of the written word. The conclusion
that emerges over the course of the book is that, when encountered
in the context of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, runic letters
consistently represent the written word in a way that Roman letters
do not.
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