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Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Center

Herausgegeben von: Lindy Brady

Übersicht
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Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Center is a scholarly series of monographs and essay collections that present research on the history, literature, and material culture of early medieval England in its wider chronological and geographical context, including its links with the European Continent and the Celtic world. The series places particular emphasis on the study of manuscripts.

The series’ Editorial Board comprises:

Lindy Brady, Edge Hill University, UK (Series Editor)
Thomas A. Bredehoft, Chancery Hill Books and Antiques, USA
Kees Dekker, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands
Nicole Guenther Discenza, University of South Florida, USA
Helen Foxhall Forbes, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy
Susan Kim, Illinois State University, USA
Rosalind Love, Robinson College, Cambridge University, UK

Submissions

Proposals or completed manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent to Erin Sweany (erin.e.sweany@wmich.edu) for literary studies or Emily Winkler (emily.winkler@history.ox.ac.uk) for historical studies, acquisitions editors for the series, or Lindy Brady (lindy.brady@edgehill.ac.uk), the series editor. All proposals and submissions are evaluated by members of the International Advisory Board of the Center and undergo independent peer review.

Fachgebiete

Buch 2024

Thought and Action in Old English Poetry and Prose

Eleni Ponirakis

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Cognitive approaches to early medieval texts have tended to focus on the mind in isolation. By examining the interplay between mental and physical acts deployed in Old English poetry and prose, this study identifies new patterns and offers new perspectives. In these texts, the performance of right or wrong action is not linked to natural inclination dictated by birth; it is the fruit of right or wrong thinking. The mind consciously directed and controlled is open to external influences, both human and diabolical. This struggle to produce right thought and action reflects an emerging democratization of heroism that crosses societal and gender boundaries, becoming intertwined with socio-political, soteriological, and cultural meaning. In a study of influential prose texts, including the Alfredian translations and the sermons of Ælfric, alongside close readings of three poems from different genres – The Seafarer, The Battle of Maldon, and Juliana –, Ponirakis demonstrates how early medieval authors create patterns of interaction between the mental and the physical. These provide hidden keys to meaning which, once found, unlock new readings of much studied texts. In addition, these patterns of balance, distribution, and opposition, reveal a startling similarity of approach across genre and form, taking the discussion of the early medieval conception of the mind, soul, and emotion, not to mention conventional generic divisions, onto new ground.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501514418
ISBN:: 9781501514418
ISBN:: 9781501518522
ISBN:: 9781501514456
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Gattungen und Medien
Fachgebiet:: Lyrik
Fachgebiet:: Prosa
Fachgebiet:: Philosophie
Fachgebiet:: Philosophische Anthropologie
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

Buch 2023

Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Women in Tenth-Century England

Rebecca Hardie

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Æthelflæd (c. 870–918), political leader, military strategist, and administrator of law, is one of the most important ruling women in English history. Despite her multifaceted roles and family legacy, however, her reign and relationship with other women in tenth-century England have never been the subject of a book-length study. This interdisciplinary collection of essays redresses a notable hiatus in scholarship of early medieval England. Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Women in Tenth-Century England argues for a reassessment of women’s political, military, literary, and domestic agency. It invites deeper reflection on the female kinships, networks, and communities that give meaning to Æthelflæd’s life, and through this shows how medieval history can invite new engagements with the past.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501512421
ISBN:: 9781501512421
ISBN:: 9781501512254
ISBN:: 9781501517617
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen in den Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Gender, Geschlecht
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Mittelalter
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Westeuropa
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

Buch 2022

The Gaelic Background of Old English Poetry before Bede

Colin A. Ireland

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Seventh-century Gaelic law-tracts delineate professional poets (filid) who earned high social status through formal training. These poets cooperated with the Church to create an innovative bilingual intellectual culture in Old Gaelic and Latin. Bede described Anglo-Saxon students who availed themselves of free education in Ireland at this culturally dynamic time. Gaelic scholars called sapientes (“wise ones”) produced texts in Old Gaelic and Latin that demonstrate how Anglo-Saxon students were influenced by contact with Gaelic ecclesiastical and secular scholarship. Seventh-century Northumbria was ruled for over 50 years by Gaelic-speaking kings who could access Gaelic traditions. Gaelic literary traditions provide the closest analogues for Bede’s description of Cædmon’s production of Old English poetry. This ground-breaking study displays the transformations created by the growth of vernacular literatures and bilingual intellectual cultures. Gaelic missionaries and educational opportunities helped shape the Northumbrian “Golden Age”, its manuscripts, hagiography, and writings of Aldhelm and Bede.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513879
ISBN:: 9781501513879
ISBN:: 9781501522147
ISBN:: 9781501513930
ISBN:: 9781501520280
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Literaturen anderer Länder und Spachen
Fachgebiet:: Weitere Länder und Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Gattungen und Medien
Fachgebiet:: Lyrik
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

Buch 2020

The Wisdom of Exeter

Anglo-Saxon Studies in Honor of Patrick W. Conner

E.J. Christie

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This interdisciplinary volume collects original essays in literary criticism and literary theory, philology, codicology, metrics, and art history. Composed by prominent scholars in Anglo-Saxon studies, these essays honor the depth and breadth of Patrick W. Conner’s influence in our discipline. As a scholar, teacher, editor, administrator and innovator, Pat has contributed to Anglo-Saxon studies for four decades. It is hard to say which of his legacies is most profound.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513060
ISBN:: 9781501513060
ISBN:: 9781501512902
ISBN:: 9781501517822
Fachgebiet:: Kunst
Fachgebiet:: Epochen
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

Buch 2020

Late Anglo-Saxon Prayer in Practice

Before the Books of Hours

Kate H. Thomas

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This monograph examines Anglo-Saxon prayer outside of the communal liturgy. With a particular emphasis on its practical aspects, it considers how small groups of prayers were elaborated into complex programs for personal devotion, resulting in the forerunners of the Special Offices.

With examples being taken chiefly from major eleventh-century collections of prayers, liturgy and medical remedies, the methodologies of Anglo-Saxon compilers are examined, followed by five chapters on specialist kinds of prayer: to the Trinity and saints, for liturgical feasts and the canonical hours, to the Holy Cross, for protection and healing, and confessions. Analyzing prayer in a wide range of different situations, this book argues that Anglo-Saxon manuscripts may have included far more private offices than have so far been recognized, if we see them for what they were.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110661958
ISBN:: 9783110661958
ISBN:: 9781580443616
ISBN:: 9783110660494
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Sozialgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Religionsgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Praktische Theologie
Fachgebiet:: Liturgik
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

Buch 2020

Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon

Megan E. Hartman

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This book traces the development of hypermetric verse in Old English and compares it to the cognate traditions of Old Norse and Old Saxon. The study illustrates the inherent flexibility of the hypermetric line and shows how poets were able to manipulate this flexibility in different contexts for different practical and rhetorical purposes. This mode of analysis is therefore able to show what degree of control the poets had over the traditional alliterative line, what effects they were able to produce with various stylistic choices, and how attention to poetic style can aid in literary analysis.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513688
ISBN:: 9781501513688
ISBN:: 9781501518324
ISBN:: 9781501513558
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Literaturen anderer Länder und Spachen
Fachgebiet:: Skandinavische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

Buch 2019

Darkness, Depression, and Descent in Anglo-Saxon England

Ruth Wehlau

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This collection of essays examines the motifs of darkness, depression, and descent in both literal and figurative manifestations within a variety of Anglo-Saxon texts, including the Old English Consolation of Philosophy, Beowulf, Guthlac, The Junius Manuscript, The Wonders of the East, and The Battle of Maldon. Essays deal with such topics as cosmic emptiness, descent into the grave, and recurrent grief. In their analyses, the essays reveal the breadth of this imagery in Anglo-Saxon literature as it is used to describe thought and emotion, as well as the limits to knowledge and perception. The volume investigates the intersection between the burgeoning interest in trauma studies and darkness and the representation of the mind or of emotional experience within Anglo-Saxon literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110661972
ISBN:: 9783110661972
ISBN:: 9781580443678
ISBN:: 9783110660487
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen in den Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Emotion
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Mittelalter
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Kulturgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2024

The Third Gender and Ælfric's Lives of Saints

Rhonda L. McDaniel

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In The Third Gender, McDaniel addresses the idea of the third gender in early hagiography and Latin treatises on virginity and then examines Ælfric's treatment of gender in his translations of Latin monastic Lives for his non-monastic audiences. She first investigates patristic ideas about a third gender by describing this concept within the theoretical frameworks of monasticism provided by the four Latin Doctors and illustrated in the early Latin Lives of Roman martyrs, revealing the importance of memory in the construction of the monastic third gender. In the second section McDaniel turns to creating a historical and theological cultural context within which to locate an interpretation of Ælfric's portrayals of male and female saints in his Old English translations of Lives of Saints, applying this context to Ælfric's Lives and providing insights into the ideas about monastic gender that Ælfric translated (or declined to translate) for his non-monastic audience.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9781580443104
ISBN:: 9781580443104
ISBN:: 9781501512834
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Mittelalter
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Westeuropa
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: Medieval Institute Publications