Rewriting Old English in the twelfth century

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Label

Rewriting Old English in the twelfth century

Statement of responsibility

edited by Mary Swan and Elaine M. Treharne

Contributor

• Swan, Mary
• Treharne, Elaine

Subject

• Christian literature, English (Old) -- Criticism, Textual
• Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• England -- Intellectual life -- 1066-1485
• English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Criticism, Textual
• History
• Manuscripts, English (Old)
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- England
• Paleography, English
• Scriptoria -- England -- History -- To 1500
• Transmission of texts
• Transmission of texts -- England -- History -- To 1500

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History

Language

eng

Summary

• "This innovative collection of essays aims to redefine the limits of Old English scholarship by studying some of the latest reworking of texts composed earlier in the Anglo-Saxon period and their implications for the development of literary production across time. The essays in the volume constitute new work on a wide range of texts, including homilies, saints' lives, psalters and biblical material; some focus on individual manuscripts incorporating palaeographic and orthographic studies; others use modern critical theory to examine later Old English texts; and all highlight the need to redefine our attitude to late recopying. The volume engages with important issues, including the nature of textual transmission and recomposition and its relationship to late Old English reader-response; attitudes to earlier material as evidenced in its recopying and adaptation; and the character of surviving manuscripts and what these tell us about the twelfth-century scribes and scriptoria, reading and readers."--Jacket
• "This innovative collection of essays aims to redefine the limits of Old English scholarship by studying some of the latest reworking of texts composed earlier in the Anglo-Saxon period and their implications for the development of literary production across time. The essays in the volume constitute new work on a wide range of texts, including homilies, saints' lives, psalters and biblical material; some focus on individual manuscripts incorporating palaeographic and orthographic studies; others use modern critical theory to examine later Old English texts; and all highlight the need to redefine our attitude to late recopying. The volume engages with important issues, including the nature of textual transmission and recomposition and its relationship to late Old English reader-response; attitudes to earlier material as evidenced in its recopying and adaptation; and the character of surviving manuscripts and what these tell us about the twelfth-century scribes and scriptoria, reading and readers."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• Cambridge studies in Anglo-Saxon England, v. 30

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

829

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

PR179.T48

LC item number

R49 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge studies in Anglo-Saxon England

Series volume

30