Rethinking the Humanities through Premodern Texts
Focusing on case studies from 1050 to 1250, the book critiques the restrictive and hierarchical nature of contemporary scholarly categories in the Humanities. It reveals how these categories can limit understanding and interpretation, encouraging readers to reconsider traditional frameworks and their implications for historical analysis.
This coursebook examines the material history of human communication, allowing students and teachers to examine how communication's production, form, materiality, and reception are crucial to our interpretations of culture, history, and society.
Bringing together the insights of new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the state of Medieval Literature today. It discusses texts such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and authors from Ælfric to Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.
Looking at literature from Medieval Britain and Ireland, including Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman poetry, prose and drama, this Very Short Introduction covers the earliest beginnings of print culture, and considers major themes of these works, such as sin and salvation, kingship and authority, myth and the monstrous.
The book explores the political influence of the English language from the reign of Cnut to the early thirteenth century. It examines the strategic use of English by monarchs, their courts, and prominent church figures during significant events between 1020 and 1220, highlighting its role in shaping governance and societal structures in medieval England.
Living through Conquest is the first ever investigation of the political clout of English from the reign of Cnut to the earliest decades of the thirteenth century. It focuses on why and how the English language was used by kings and their courts and by leading churchmen and monastic institutions at key moments from 1020 to 1220.
The third edition of this successful anthology contains an imaginative selection of canonical and non-canonical material, arranged by date of manuscript, with full translations offered for all the Old and earlier Middle English material, along with marginal glosses for the later texts
This acclaimed volume explores and unravels the contexts, readings, genres, intertextualities and debates within Anglo-Saxon studies.Brings together specially-commissioned contributions from ateam of leading European and American scholars.Embraces both the literature and the cultural background of theperiod.Combines the discussion of primary material and manuscriptsources with critical analysis and readings.Considers the past, present and future of Anglo-Saxonstudies
Old and Middle English Poetry gathers together the essential texts from the earliest writings in the vernacular up to the time of Chaucer.