TY - BOOK AU - Major,Tristan TI - Undoing Babel: The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature T2 - Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series SN - 9781487511265 U1 - 820.9/382 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Toronto PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Babel, Tower of, in literature KW - English literature KW - Old English, ca. 450-1100 KW - History and criticism KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Genesis 10–11 --; Introduction --; Chapter One. Early Jewish and Christian Antiquity --; Chapter Two. Latin Christian Antiquity --; Chapter Three. The Early Anglo-Saxon School at Canterbury --; Chapter Four. Bede and Alcuin --; Chapter Five. Alfred the Great and the Literature of His Reign --; Chapter Six. The Tenth and Early Eleventh Centuries --; Chapter Seven. The Biblical Poems of Junius 11 --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - The Tower of Babel narrative is one of the most memorable accounts of the Bible, and its interpretative potential has produced a vast array of literary adaptations. Undoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel narrative amongst Anglo-Saxon authors from late antiquity to the eleventh century. Tristan Major’s illuminating and original insight into Anglo-Latin and Old English works, including the writings of Aldhelm, Bede, Alcuin, Ælfric, and Wulfstan, reveals the cultural ideologies and anxieties that transformed the Babel narrative. In doing so, Major argues that these Babel narratives provide a basis for understanding the world’s ethnic and linguistic diversity as well as a theological stimulus to evangelize non-Christian and non-European people. Undoing Babel highlights the depth of literary innovation in this period and disproves any notion of a single Anglo-Saxon reception of biblical sources UR - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487511265 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487511265 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487511265/original ER -