The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature New Cambridge History of English Literature

Informed by multi-cultural, multidisciplinary perspectives, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature offers a new exploration of the earliest writing in Britain and Ireland, from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-twelfth century. Beginning with an account of writing itself, as well as of scripts and manuscript art, subsequent chapters examine the earliest texts from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and the tremendous breadth of Anglo-Latin literature. Chapters on English learning and literature in the ninth century and the later formation of English poetry and prose also convey the profound cultural confidence of the period. Providing a discussion of essential texts, including Beowulf and the writings of Bede, this History captures the sheer inventiveness and vitality of early medieval literary culture through topics as diverse as the literature of English law, liturgical and devotional writing, the workings of science and the history of women's writing-- Provided by Publisher. Contents 8 Illustrations 11 Acknowledgements 14 Abbreviations 14 Introduction: literature in Britain and Ireland to 1150 18 I WORD, SCRIPT AND IMAGE 34 1 . Writing in Britain and Ireland, c. 400 to c. 800 36 2 . The art of writing: scripts and scribal production 67 3 . Art and writing: voice, image, object 90 4 . Of Bede’s ‘five languages and four nations 116 5 . Insular Latin literature to 900 137 6 . Bede and the northern kingdoms 175 II EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE 200 7 . Across borders: Anglo-Saxon England and the Germanic world 202 8 . English literature in the ninth century 226 9 . The writing of history in the early Middle Ages: 249 10 . The literary languages of Old English: words, styles, voices 274 11 . Old English poetic form: genre, style, prosody 295 12 . Beowulf: a poem in our time 326 13 . Old English lyrics: a poetics of experience 349 14 Literature in pieces: female sanctity and the relics of early women’s writing 374 15 . Saintly lives: friendship, kinship, gender and sexuality 398 16 . Sacred history and Old English religious poetry 423 17 . Performing Christianity: liturgical and devotional writing 444 18 . Riddles, wonder and responsiveness in Anglo-Saxon literature 468 III LATIN LEARNING AND THE LITERARY VERNACULARS 490 19 . In measure, and number, and weight: writing science 492 20 . Legal documentation and the practice of English law 516 21 . Latinities, 893–1143 547 22 . The authority of English, 900–1150 571 23 Crossing the language divide: Anglo-Scandinavian language and literature 596 24 . European literature and eleventh-century England 624 25 . Gaelic literature in Ireland and Scotland, 900–1150 654 26 . Writing in Welsh to 1150: (re)creating the past, shaping the future 677 Index of manuscripts 779 Index 783 EARLY,MEDIEVAL,ENGLISH,LITERATURE EARLY MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE

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