Language, lineage and location in the works of Osbern Bokenham. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Alice Spencer.
• Other Names: Spencer, Alice
• Contents: Chapter one. Introduction : identity and community in space and time. Part one. Osbern Bokenham : emerging from the "angle of oblyuyoun" ; part two. The discovery of the Abbotsford manuscript and its implications ; part three. The angelic margins and the inclusiveness of the exemplary : authority, community and identity -- Chapter two. Language : etymology, the vernacular, and the poetic voice. Part one. Introduction ; part two. Etymology, the Trinity and the Legenda Aurea ; part three. Etymology, national identity and the mother tongue in the Mappula Angliae and the lives of native saints ; part four. Natural language and orthodoxy -- Chapter three. Lineage. Part one. Introduction ; part two. Genealogy, gender and nation ; part three. Genealogy, gender and succession ; part four. Gender, fertility and language -- Chapter four. Location. Part one. Introduction ; part two. Sanctity and nation ; part three. Gender, vernacular and nation ; part four. Geographical space, authority and experience ; part five. Translating corpses and Corpora ; part six. Textual spaces : number, form, and the Trinity.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (145 pages)
• Subjects: 821/.109; Literature & literary studies; Christian communities & monasticism; Translation & interpretation; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443845373
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.