How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems / / Daniel Donoghue.
The scribes of early medieval England wrote out their vernacular poems using a format that looks primitive to our eyes because it lacks the familiar visual cues of verse lineation, marks of punctuation, and capital letters. The paradox is that scribes had those tools at their disposal, which they de...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 7 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. How to Read
- Chapter 2. From Orality to Punctuation
- Chapter 3. Verse Syntax
- Chapter 4. Eye Movement
- Less a Conclusion Than an Opening Up
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments