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The Ruthwell Cross and its Texts : A New Reconstruction and an Edition of The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem / Kerstin Majewski.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde ; 132Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (XXVI, 397 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110785395
  • 9783110785470
  • 9783110785449
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  • 829.109
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations and Symbols -- Acknowledgements -- Review of Literature -- Introduction -- Part I: The Ruthwell Cross and its Texts -- 1 The Ruthwell Cross: An Overview -- 2 The Cross in Text and Stone: Situating the Ruthwell Cross in a Particular Historical Context -- 3 The Challenge to Situate The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem in a Literary Context -- 4 Text, Material, and Memory -- 5 The Figure Sculpture and the Roman Inscriptions -- 6 The Runic Inscriptions on the Ruthwell Cross -- 7 A New Reconstruction of The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem -- Part II: An Edition of The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem -- The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem -- Notes -- Glossary -- 8 Summary and Conclusion -- 9 Appendices -- 10 Bibliography -- 11 Index
Dissertation note: Dissertation LMU München 2021. Summary: The Ruthwell Cross is one of the finest Anglo-Saxon high crosses that have come down to us. The longest epigraphic text in the Old English Runes Corpus is inscribed on two sides of the monument: it forms an alliterative poem, in which the Cross itself narrates the crucifixion episode. Parts of the inscription are irrevocably lost. This study establishes a historico-cultural context for the Ruthwell Cross’s texts and sculptures. It shows that The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem is an integral part of a Christian artefact but also an independent text. Although its verses match closely with lines of The Dream of the Rood in the Vercelli Book, a comparative analysis gives new insight into their complex relationship. An annotated transliteration of the runes offers intriguing information for runologists. Detailed linguistic and metrical analyses finally yield a new reconstruction of the lost runes. All in all, this study takes a fresh look at the Ruthwell Cross and provides the first scholarly edition of the reconstructed Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem—one of the earliest religious poems of Anglo-Saxon England. It will be of interest to scholars and students of historical linguistics, medieval English literature and culture, art history, and archaeology.
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Dissertation LMU München 2021.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations and Symbols -- Acknowledgements -- Review of Literature -- Introduction -- Part I: The Ruthwell Cross and its Texts -- 1 The Ruthwell Cross: An Overview -- 2 The Cross in Text and Stone: Situating the Ruthwell Cross in a Particular Historical Context -- 3 The Challenge to Situate The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem in a Literary Context -- 4 Text, Material, and Memory -- 5 The Figure Sculpture and the Roman Inscriptions -- 6 The Runic Inscriptions on the Ruthwell Cross -- 7 A New Reconstruction of The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem -- Part II: An Edition of The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem -- The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem -- Notes -- Glossary -- 8 Summary and Conclusion -- 9 Appendices -- 10 Bibliography -- 11 Index

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The Ruthwell Cross is one of the finest Anglo-Saxon high crosses that have come down to us. The longest epigraphic text in the Old English Runes Corpus is inscribed on two sides of the monument: it forms an alliterative poem, in which the Cross itself narrates the crucifixion episode. Parts of the inscription are irrevocably lost. This study establishes a historico-cultural context for the Ruthwell Cross’s texts and sculptures. It shows that The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem is an integral part of a Christian artefact but also an independent text. Although its verses match closely with lines of The Dream of the Rood in the Vercelli Book, a comparative analysis gives new insight into their complex relationship. An annotated transliteration of the runes offers intriguing information for runologists. Detailed linguistic and metrical analyses finally yield a new reconstruction of the lost runes. All in all, this study takes a fresh look at the Ruthwell Cross and provides the first scholarly edition of the reconstructed Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem—one of the earliest religious poems of Anglo-Saxon England. It will be of interest to scholars and students of historical linguistics, medieval English literature and culture, art history, and archaeology.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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