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Hardcover:
9780631220565 | Blackwell Pub, May 9, 2016, cover price $94.95
Paperback:
9780631220572 | Blackwell Pub, May 16, 2016, cover price $49.95
Product Description: *The Idea of Anglo Saxon England, 1066-1901 presents the first systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies have evolved from their beginnings to the twentieth century * Tells the story of how the idea of Anglo-Saxon England evolved from the Anglo-Saxons themselves to the Victorians, serving as a myth of origins for the English people, their language, and some of their most cherished institutions * Combines original research with established scholarship to reveal how current conceptions of English identity might be very different if it were not for the discovery and invention of the Anglo-Saxon past * Reveals how documents dating from the Anglo-Saxon era have greatly influenced modern attitudes toward nationhood, race, religious practice, and constitutional liberties * Includes more than fifty images of manuscripts, early printed books, paintings, sculptures, and major historians of the er...read more
Hardcover:
9781118943328 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, September 28, 2015, cover price $94.95 | About this edition: *The Idea of Anglo Saxon England, 1066-1901 presents the first systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies have evolved from their beginnings to the twentieth century * Tells the story of how the idea of Anglo-Saxon England evolved from the Anglo-Saxons themselves to the Victorians, serving as a myth of origins for the English people, their language, and some of their most cherished institutions * Combines original research with established scholarship to reveal how current conceptions of English identity might be very different if it were not for the discovery and invention of the Anglo-Saxon past * Reveals how documents dating from the Anglo-Saxon era have greatly influenced modern attitudes toward nationhood, race, religious practice, and constitutional liberties * Includes more than fifty images of manuscripts, early printed books, paintings, sculptures, and major historians of the era
The Genesis of the Book: Studies in the Scribal Culture of Medieval England in Honour of A. N. Doane
Product Description: This volume is about the book itself, as shaped and made by medieval scribes and as conditioned by the cultural understandings that were present in the world where those scribes lived. Questions relating to the provenance, compilation, script, function, and use - both medieval and modern - of manuscripts are raised and are resolved in a fresh manner...read more
Hardcover:
9782503534732 | Brepols Pub, May 9, 2012, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This volume is about the book itself, as shaped and made by medieval scribes and as conditioned by the cultural understandings that were present in the world where those scribes lived.
Product Description: It would be difficult to imagine what human life would be like without storiesâfrom myths recited by Pueblo Indian healers in the kiva, ballads sung in Slovenian market squares, folktales and legends told by the fireside in Italy, to jokes told at a dinner table in Des Moinesâfor it is chiefly through storytelling that people possess a past...read more
Hardcover:
9780812235043 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, August 23, 1999, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: It would be difficult to imagine what human life would be like without stories--from myths recited by Pueblo Indian healers in the kiva, ballads sung in Slovenian market squares, folktales and legends told by the fireside in Italy, to jokes told at the dinner table in Des Moines--for it is chiefly through storytelling that people possess a past.
Paperback:
9780812221077 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, March 19, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: It would be difficult to imagine what human life would be like without storiesâfrom myths recited by Pueblo Indian healers in the kiva, ballads sung in Slovenian market squares, folktales and legends told by the fireside in Italy, to jokes told at a dinner table in Des Moinesâfor it is chiefly through storytelling that people possess a past.
Product Description: Frederick Klaeber's Beowulf has long been the standard edition for study by students and advanced scholars alike. Its wide-ranging coverage of scholarship, its comprehensive philological aids, and its exceptionally thorough notes and glossary have ensured its continued use in spite of the fact that the book has remained largely unaltered since 1936...read more
Hardcover:
9780802098436 | 4th edition (Univ of Toronto Pr, April 5, 2008), cover price $107.00 | About this edition: Frederick Klaeber's Beowulf has long been the standard edition for study by students and advanced scholars alike.
Paperback:
9780802095671 | 4th edition (Univ of Toronto Pr, April 5, 2008), cover price $44.95
Hardcover:
9780866983686 | Mrts, June 30, 2007, cover price $89.00
Product Description: Old English Heroic Poems and the Social Life of Texts develops the theme that all stories- all 'beautiful lies', if one considers them as such - have a potentially myth-like function as they enter and re-enter the stream of human consciousness...read more
Hardcover:
9782503520803 | Brepols Pub, April 30, 2007, cover price $124.00 | About this edition: Old English Heroic Poems and the Social Life of Texts develops the theme that all stories- all 'beautiful lies', if one considers them as such - have a potentially myth-like function as they enter and re-enter the stream of human consciousness.
Product Description: Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of the Texts consists of a close study of a number of verse texts, most of which are preserved in the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. All of these texts are enigmatic. Some are riddles; others are riddle-like in their manner of simultaneously giving and withholding information...read more
Hardcover:
9782503515304 | Brepols Pub, November 30, 2006, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of the Texts consists of a close study of a number of verse texts, most of which are preserved in the Exeter Book of Old English poetry.
Hardcover:
9780803212374 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The most revered work composed in Old English, Beowulf is one of the landmarks of European literature.
Paperback:
9780859896214 | New edition (Gardners Books, August 1, 1998), cover price $41.70 | also contains A Beowulf Handbook | About this edition: The most revered work composed in Old English, 'Beowulf' is a landmark of European literature.
Paperback:
9780803261501 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $32.95
9780859896214 | New edition (Gardners Books, August 1, 1998), cover price $41.70 | also contains A Beowulf Handbook | About this edition: The most revered work composed in Old English, 'Beowulf' is a landmark of European literature.
Product Description: "Teaches us the extent to which the discipline of Anglo-Saxon studies is a construct motivated variously by political, economic, cultural, gender-based, and racialist impulses. Thus it also teaches us both humility before the limits upon our supposed 'disinterestedness' and optimism, if chastened, in our collegial ability to reform and improve our disciplinary investments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780813015323 | Univ Pr of Florida, November 1, 1997, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: "Teaches us the extent to which the discipline of Anglo-Saxon studies is a construct motivated variously by political, economic, cultural, gender-based, and racialist impulses.
Paperback:
9780819172686 | Univ Pr of Amer, August 1, 1989, cover price $44.99
Product Description: The papers in this volume contribute to a more precise assessment of the interconnections between England and Scandinavia during the period from the establishment of the Danelaw to the Norman Conquest. The essays fall into three groups of concern: history, myth, and the language of poetry...read more
Hardcover:
9780819172679 | Univ Pr of Amer, March 1, 1989, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: The papers in this volume contribute to a more precise assessment of the interconnections between England and Scandinavia during the period from the establishment of the Danelaw to the Norman Conquest.
Product Description: Professor John Niles (PhD, UC Berkeley) develops a new view of the first great work of English literature and the native poetic tradition from which it arose. His lucid commentary analyzes all aspects of the poem's style, meaning, and historical context...read more
Hardcover:
9780674067257 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 1, 1983, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Professor John Niles (PhD, UC Berkeley) develops a new view of the first great work of English literature and the native poetic tradition from which it arose.
Hardcover:
9780859910613 | Longwood Pr Ltd, June 1, 1981, cover price $29.50
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