Saints and scholars : new perspectives on Anglo-Saxon literature and culture in honour of Hugh Magennis /: new perspectives on Anglo-Saxon literature and culture in honour of Hugh Magennis. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Stuart McWilliams.
• Editors: McWilliams, Stuart
• Other Names: McWilliams, Stuart; Magennis, Hugh
• Contents: Frontcover; Contents; List of Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; I. Hagiography and the Homiletic Tradition; 1. A Note on the Sensational Old English Life of St Margaret; 2. A Place to Weep: Joseph in the Beer-Room and Anglo-Saxon Gestures of Emotion; 3. Aldhelm's Choice of Saints for his Prose De Virginitate; 4. Shepherding the Shepherds in the Ways of Pastoral Care; 5. 'Consider Lazarus': A Context for Vercelli Homily VII; 6. More than a Female Joseph; 7. Ã#x86;lfric, Leofric and In Natale Plurimorum Apostolorum; II. Aspects of Community and Consumption. 8. Stories from the Court of King Alfred9. De Duodecim Abusiuis, Lordship and Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England; 10. Reluctant Appetites: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes towards Fasting; 11. A Note on the Function of the Inscribed Strip from the Staffordshire Hoard; 12. The Shining of the Sun in the Twelve Nights of Christmas; 13. Sin and Laughter in Late Anglo-Saxon England; 14. Marginal Activity? Post-Conquest Old English Readers and their Notes; III. Reflections on Old English Scholarship; 15. Old English for Non-specialists in the Nineteenth Century: A Road not Taken. 16. The Beginnings of English Poetry: Philological and Textual Challenges for the Creative ImaginationPoems; The Honey Vision; The Scholar; Hugh Magennis: A Bibliography; Index; Tabula Gratulatoria; Backcover.
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge, Suffolk : D.S. Brewer
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (290 pages), portrait
• Subjects: 829.09; English literature -- Old English, approximately 450-1100 -- History and criticism; English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100; Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature; Civilization, Medieval, in literature; Civilization, Anglo-Saxon; Saints in literature; Scholars in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Medieval; Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature; Civilization, Medieval, in literature; English literature -- Old English; Civilization, Anglo-Saxon; Saints in literature; Scholars in literature; Kultur; Altenglisch; Literatur; England; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781846158711; 1846158710
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.; Note: Print version record.
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