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The essays here engage with the ways in which the Anglo-Saxons and
their literature have been received, confronted, and re-envisioned
in the modern imagination. An excellent collection... breaks new
ground in many areas. Should make a substantial impact on the
discussion of the contemporary influence of Anglo-Saxon Culture.
Conor McCarthy, author of Seamus Heaney and the Medieval
Imagination Britain's pre-Conquest past and its culture continues
to fascinate modern writers and artists. From Henry Sweet's
Anglo-Saxon Reader to Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, and from high
modernism to themusclebound heroes of comic book and Hollywood,
Anglo-Saxon England has been a powerful and often unexpected source
of inspiration, antagonism, and reflection. The essays here engage
with the ways in which the Anglo-Saxons and their literature have
been received, confronted, and re-envisioned in the modern
imagination. They offer fresh insights on established figures, such
as W.H. Auden, J.R.R. Tolkien, and David Jones, and on contemporary
writers such asGeoffrey Hill, Peter Reading, P.D. James, and
Heaney. They explore the interaction between text, image and
landscape in medieval and modern books, the recasting of mythic
figures such as Wayland Smith, and the metamorphosis of Beowulf
into Grendel - as a novel and as grand opera. The early medieval
emerges not simply as a site of nostalgia or anxiety in modern
revisions, but instead provides a vital arena for creativity,
pleasure, and artistic experiment. Contributors: Bernard
O'Donoghue, Chris Jones, Mark Atherton, Maria Artamonova, Anna
Johnson, Clare A. Lees, Sian Echard, Catherine A.M. Clarke, Maria
Sachiko Cecire, Allen J. Frantzen, John Halbrooks, Hannah J.
Crawforth, Joshua Davies, Rebecca Anne Barr
Examinations of the date of Beowulf have tremendous significance
for Anglo-Saxon culture in general. This book will be a milestone,
and deserves to be widely read. The early Beowulf that
overwhelmingly emerges here asks hard questions, and the same
strictly defined measures of metre, spelling, onomastics,
semantics, genealogy, and historicity all cry out to be tested
further and applied more broadly to the whole corpus of Old English
verse. Andy Orchard, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of
Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford. The datingof Beowulf has been a
central question in Anglo-Saxon studies for the past two centuries,
since it affects not only the interpretation of Beowulf, but also
the trajectory of early English literary history. By exploring
evidence for the poem's date of composition, these essays
contribute to a wide range of pertinent fields, including
historical linguistics, Old English metrics, onomastics, and
textual criticism. Many aspects of Anglo-Saxon literary culture are
likewise examined, as contributors gauge the chronological
significance of the monsters, heroes, history, and theology brought
together in Beowulf. Discussions of methodology and the history of
the discipline also figure prominently in this collection. Overall,
the dating of Beowulf here provides a productive framework for
evaluating evidence and drawing informed conclusions about its
chronological significance. These conclusions enhance our
appreciation of Beowulf and improve our understanding of the poem's
place in literary history. Leonard Neidorf is a Junior Fellow at
the Harvard Society of Fellows. Contributors: Frederick M. Biggs,
Thomas A. Bredehoft, George Clark, Dennis Cronan, Michael D.C.
Drout, Allen J. Frantzen, R.D. Fulk, Megan E. Hartman, Joseph
Harris, Thomas D. Hill, Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual, Tom
Shippey
A fresh approach to the implications of obtaining, preparing, and
consuming food, concentrating on the little-investigated routines
of everyday life. Food in the Middle Ages usually evokes images of
feasting, speeches, and special occasions, even though most
evidence of food culture consists of fragments of ordinary things
such as knives, cooking pots, and grinding stones, which are rarely
mentioned by contemporary writers. This book puts daily life and
its objects at the centre of the food world. It brings together
archaeological and textual evidence to show how words and
implements associated with food contributed to social identity at
all levels of Anglo-Saxon society. It also looks at the networks
which connected fields to kitchens and linked rural centres to
trading sites. Fasting, redesigned field systems, and the place
offish in the diet are examined in a wide-ranging,
interdisciplinary inquiry into the power of food to reveal social
complexity. Allen J. Frantzen is Emeritus Professor of English at
Loyola University Chicago.
Examinations of the date of Beowulf have tremendous significance
for Anglo-Saxon culture in general. This book will be a milestone,
and deserves to be widely read. The early Beowulf that
overwhelmingly emerges here asks hard questions, and the same
strictly defined measures of metre, spelling, onomastics,
semantics, genealogy, and historicity all cry out to be tested
further and applied more broadly to the whole corpus of Old English
verse. Andy Orchard, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of
Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford. The datingof Beowulf has been a
central question in Anglo-Saxon studies for the past two centuries,
since it affects not only the interpretation of Beowulf, but also
the trajectory of early English literary history. By exploring
evidence for the poem's date of composition, the essays in this
volume contribute to a wide range of pertinent fields, including
historical linguistics, Old English metrics, onomastics, and
textual criticism. Many aspects of Anglo-Saxon literary culture are
likewise examined, as contributors gauge the chronological
significance of the monsters, heroes, history, and theology brought
together in Beowulf. Discussions of methodology and the history of
the discipline also figure prominently in this collection. Overall,
the dating of Beowulf here provides a productive framework for
evaluating evidence and drawing informed conclusions about its
chronological significance. These conclusions enhance our
appreciation of Beowulf and improve our understanding of the poem's
place in literary history. Leonard Neidorf is a Junior Fellow at
the Harvard Society of Fellows. Contributors: Frederick M. Biggs,
Thomas A. Bredehoft, George Clark, Dennis Cronan, Michael D.C.
Drout, Allen J. Frantzen, R.D. Fulk, Megan E. Hartman, Joseph
Harris, Thomas D. Hill, Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual, Tom
Shippey
A fresh approach to the implications of obtaining, preparing, and
consuming food, concentrating on the little-investigated routines
of everyday life. Food in the Middle Ages usually evokes images of
feasting, speeches, and special occasions, even though most
evidence of food culture consists of fragments of ordinary things
such as knives, cooking pots, and grinding stones, which are rarely
mentioned by contemporary writers. This book puts daily life and
its objects at the centre of the food world. It brings together
archaeological and textual evidence to show how words and
implements associated with food contributed to social identity at
all levels of Anglo-Saxon society. It also looks at the networks
which connected fields to kitchens and linked rural centres to
trading sites. Fasting, redesigned field systems, and the place
offish in the diet are examined in a wide-ranging,
interdisciplinary inquiry into the power of food to reveal social
complexity. Allen J. Frantzen is Professor of English at Loyola
University Chicago.
Alfred's life, work and influence studied through writings of his
age. Alfred and the great achievements of his reign are once more
at the centre of scholarly discussion, and the studies in this
collection make a significant contribution to the continuing
debate. Focusing particularly on the writingsof Alfred's age, the
contributions, by leading scholars in the field, examine Alfred's
life, work and influence: there are accounts of law and morality;
examinations of translations and their sources; and investigations
of wordsand events, throwing new light on all major aspects of
Alfred's reign. As a whole, the volume is an appropriate tribute to
Janet Bately, whose writings on the age of Alfred are known and
admired by both historians and literary scholars throughout the
world. Professor JANE ROBERTS teaches in the Department of English,
King's College, London; Professor JANET L. NELSON, Director of the
Centre for Late Antiques and Medieval Studies, teaches in the
Department of History, King's College, London; Professor MALCOLM
GODDEN is Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the
University of Oxford. Contributors and contents: ANDREW BREEZE,
J.E. CROSS, ANDREW HAMER, ROBERTA FRANK, ALLEN J. FRANTZEN, M.R.
GODDEN, WALTER GOFFART, LYNNE GRUNDY, CYRIL HART, JOYCE HILL, SIMON
KEYNES, ANN KNOCK, BRUCE MITCHELL, JANET L. NELSON, BARBARA RAW,
JANE ROBERTS, D.G. SCRAGG, ALFRED B. SMYTH, E.G. STANLEY, PAULE.
SZARMACH, PATRICK WORMALD
The essays in this book use the nine-line poem known as ""Caedmon's
Hymn"" as a lens on the world of Bede's Ecclesiastical History. A
cowherd who is given a divine gift, Caedmon retells the great
narratives of Christian history in the traditional form of
Anglo-Saxon verse. An immense amount has been written about this
episode, much of it concentrating on the hymn's significance in the
history of English literature. Relatively little attention has been
paid to what the story of Caedmon and his hymn might tell us about
the material as well as the textual culture of Bede's world. The
essays in this collection seek to connect ""Caedmon's Hymn"" to
Bede s material world in various ways. Each chapter begins with the
hymn and moves from the text to the worlds of scientific thought,
settlements and social hierarchy, monastic reform, ordinary things,
and others. The connections explored here are a sampling of the
material concerns this one text, ""Caedmon's Hymn,"" raises.
In the popular imagination, World War I stands for the horror of
all wars. The unprecedented scale of the war and the mechanized
weaponry it introduced to battle brought an abrupt end to the
romantic idea that soldiers were somehow knights in shining armor
who always vanquished their foes and saved the day. Yet the concept
of chivalry still played a crucial role in how soldiers saw
themselves in the conflict.
Here for the first time, Allen J. Frantzen traces these chivalric
ideals from the Great War back to their origins in the Middle Ages
and shows how they resulted in highly influential models of
behavior for men in combat. Drawing on a wide selection of
literature and images from the medieval period, along with
photographs, memorials, postcards, war posters, and film from both
sides of the front, Frantzen shows how such media shaped a
chivalric ideal of male sacrifice based on the Passion of Jesus
Christ. He demonstrates, for instance, how the wounded body of
Christ became the inspiration for heroic male suffering in battle.
For some men, the Crucifixion inspired a culture of revenge, one in
which Christ's bleeding wounds were venerated as badges of valor
and honor. For others, Christ's sacrifice inspired action more in
line with his teachings--a daring stay of hands or reason not to
visit death upon one's enemies.
Lavishly illustrated and eloquently written, "Bloody Good" will be
must reading for anyone interested in World War I and the influence
of Christian ideas on modern life.
This study challenges the long-held belief that the early Middle
Ages tolerated and even fostered same-sex relations and that
intolerance of homosexuality developed only late in the medieval
period. Th e text argues that early medieval Christians did not
tolerate same-sex acts and, furthermore, that men and women during
this time who preferred homosexual relations pursued their desires
in spite of official sanctions. This was an age before people
recognized the existence - or the possibility - of the "closet".
This work focuses on Anglo-Saxon literature but also includes
examinations of contemporary opera, dance and theatre. The text
employs the figure of the shadow to illustrate the coexistence of
homosexual and heterosexual relations in the Middle Ages. The
figure is introduced through an analysis of a man's part sung by a
woman in operas such as Gounod's "Faust". The reverse figure - men
taking women's parts - is traced in two dances by Mark Morris, "The
Hard Nut" and "Dido and Aeneas". Also analyzed is the white
Anglo-Saxon Protestant in Tony Kushner's play, "Angels in America"
and the poems, "Beowulf" and "The Wanderer".
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