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Featuring essays from some of the most prominent voices in early
medieval studies, Dating Beowulf playfully redeploys the word
'dating', which usually heralds some of the most divisive critical
impasses in the field, to provocatively phrase a set of new
relationships with an Old English poem. The volume argues for the
relevance of the early Middle Ages to affect studies and
vice-versa, offering a riposte to antifeminist discourse and
opening avenues for future work by specialists in the history of
emotions, literary theorists, students of Old English literature
and medieval scholars alike. To this end, the essays embody a range
of critical approaches from queer theory to animal studies and
ecocriticism to actor-network theory. -- .
The study of Boethius's medieval reception has enjoyed a resurgence
of interest in recent years, with the publication of new editions,
translations, databases, and research reshaping our understanding
of his profound influence. This study offers the first holistic
survey of the reworkings of the Consolation in medieval England,
surveying the Old English Boethius together with Chaucer's Boece
and a host of understudied interlocutors for the first time in a
volume of this kind. Arranged into sections on "earlier" and
"later" periods, The Legacy of Boethius argues for a reassessment
of the medieval English Boethian tradition as a 600-year continuum
in vernacular reading and readership.
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