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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.
Scholarship on early medieval England has seen an exponential
increase in scholarly work by and about women over the past twenty
years, but the field has remained peculiarly resistant to the
transformative potential of feminist critique. Since 2016, Medieval
Studies has been rocked by conversations about the state of the
field, shifting from #MeToo to #WhiteFeminism to the purposeful
rethinking of the label "Anglo-Saxonist." This volume takes a step
toward decentering the traditional scholarly conversation with
thirteen new essays by American, Canadian, European, and UK
professors, along with independent scholars and early career
researchers from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Topics range
from virginity, women's literacy, and medical discourse to affect,
medievalism, and masculinity. The theoretical and political
commitments of this volume comprise one strand of a multivalent
effort to rethink the parameters of the discipline and to create a
scholarly community that is innovative, inclusive, and diverse.
Old English literature thrived in late tenth-century England. Its
success was the result of a concerted effort by the leaders of the
Benedictine Reform movement to encourage both widespread literacy
and a simple literary style. The manuscripts written in this era
are the source for the majority of the Old English literature that
survives today, including literary classics such as Beowulf. Yet
the same monks who copied and compiled these important Old English
texts themselves wrote in a rarified Latin, full of esoteric
vocabulary and convoluted syntax and almost incomprehensible even
to the well-educated. Comparing works by the two most prolific
authors of the era, Byrhtferth of Ramsey and Aelfric of Eynsham,
Rebecca Stephenson explains the politics that encouraged the
simultaneous development of a simple English style and an esoteric
Latin style. By examining developments in Old English and
Anglo-Latin side by side, The Politics of Language opens up a
valuable new perspective on the Benedictine Reform and literacy in
the late Anglo-Saxon period.
For the Anglo-Saxons, Latin was a language of choice that revealed
a multitude of beliefs and desires about themselves as subjects,
believers, scholars, and artists. In this groundbreaking
collection, ten leading scholars explore the intersections between
identity and Latin language and literature in Anglo-Saxon England.
Ranging from the works of the Venerable Bede and St Boniface in the
eighth century to Osbern's account of eleventh-century Canterbury,
Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon Literature offers new insights
into the Anglo-Saxons' ideas about literary form, monasticism,
language, and national identity. Latin prose, poetry, and musical
styles are reconsidered, as is the relationship between Latin and
Old English. Monastic identity, intertwined as it was with the
learning of Latin and reformation of the self, is also an important
theme. By offering fresh perspectives on texts both famous and
neglected, Latinity and Identity will transform readers' views of
Anglo-Latin literature.
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