Anglo-Saxon Keywords: Frantzen/Anglo-Saxon Keywords

__Anglo-Saxon Keywords__ presents a series of entries that reveal the links between modern ideas and scholarship and the central concepts of Anglo-Saxon literature, language, and material culture. * Reveals important links between central concepts of the Anglo-Saxon period and issues we think about today * Reveals how material culture—the history of labor, medicine, technology, identity, masculinity, sex, food, land use—is as important as the history of ideas * Offers a richly theorized approach that intersects with many disciplines inside and outside of medieval studies Content: Anglo-Saxon Keywords offers 75 essays written by leading medievalist, Allen J. Frantzen, about a wide range of topics that link modern culture to the central concepts of Anglo-Saxon literature, language, and material culture. These keywords, many adapted from the famous work by Raymond Williams, will enable students at any level, generalists, and specialists working outside the period to become better acquainted with Anglo-Saxon texts and cultural forces. Anglo-Saxonists already familiar with these concepts will find that the book offers new connections to recent intellectual and social traditions. --From dust jacket Anglo-Saxon Keywords presents a series of entries that reveal the links between modern ideas and scholarship and the central concepts of Anglo-Saxon literature, language, and material culture.

• Reveals important links between central concepts of the Anglo-Saxon period and issues we think about today
• Reveals how material culture-the history of labor, medicine, technology, identity, masculinity, sex, food, land use-is as important as the history of ideas
• Offers a richly theorized approach that intersects with many disciplines inside and outside of medieval studies