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Reading Old English Biblical Poetry : The Book and the Poem in Junius 11 / Janet Schrunk Ericksen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto Anglo-Saxon SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]Copyright date: 2020Description: 1 online resource (234 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781487505257
  • 9781487536299
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 829/.2 23/eng/20230216
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reading Junius 11 -- 1 The Thrice-Told Tale -- 2 Seeing and Believing in Daniel and Genesis B -- 3 Boceras and Exodus -- 4 Wisdom Literature at the Back of the Book -- 5 The Book in the Library -- Afterword: Closing the Book -- Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts -- General Index
Summary: Reading Old English Biblical Poetry considers the Junius 11 manuscript, the only surviving illustrated book of Old English poetry, in terms of its earliest readers and their multiple strategies of reading and making meaning. Junius 11 begins with the Creation story and ends with the final vanquishing of Satan by Jesus. The study is framed by particular attention to the materiality of the manuscript and how that might have informed its early reception, and it broadens considerations of reading beyond those of the manuscript’s compiler and possible patron. As a book, Junius 11 reflects a rich and varied culture of reading that existed in and beyond houses of God in England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and it points to readers who had enough experience to select and find wisdom, narrative pleasure, and a diversity of other things within this orany book’s contents.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781487536299

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reading Junius 11 -- 1 The Thrice-Told Tale -- 2 Seeing and Believing in Daniel and Genesis B -- 3 Boceras and Exodus -- 4 Wisdom Literature at the Back of the Book -- 5 The Book in the Library -- Afterword: Closing the Book -- Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts -- General Index

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Reading Old English Biblical Poetry considers the Junius 11 manuscript, the only surviving illustrated book of Old English poetry, in terms of its earliest readers and their multiple strategies of reading and making meaning. Junius 11 begins with the Creation story and ends with the final vanquishing of Satan by Jesus. The study is framed by particular attention to the materiality of the manuscript and how that might have informed its early reception, and it broadens considerations of reading beyond those of the manuscript’s compiler and possible patron. As a book, Junius 11 reflects a rich and varied culture of reading that existed in and beyond houses of God in England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and it points to readers who had enough experience to select and find wisdom, narrative pleasure, and a diversity of other things within this orany book’s contents.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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