Unlocking the Wordhord : : Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr. /

Unlocking the Wordhord : : Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr. / / Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Mark C. Amodio.

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The Anglo-Saxons placed a great deal of importance on wisdom and learning, something Beowulf makes dramatically clear when he uses his 'wordhord' to command respect and admiration from his friends and foes alike. Modern day scholars no longer have recourse to the living language and cultur...

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Amodio, Mark C.,
O'Brien O'Keeffe, Katherine,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction / Amodio, Mark C. / O'Brien O'Keeffe, Katherine
  • Falling into Place: Dislocation in the Junius Book / Howe, Nicholas
  • Ælfric Revises: The Lives of Martin and the Idea of the Author / Szarmach, Paul E.
  • 'Beowulf and Scribal Performance / Doane, A.N.
  • How Genres Leak in Traditional Verse / Foley, John Miles
  • A Reading of Brunanburh / Scragg, Donald
  • 'Ic' and 'We' in Eleventh-Century Old English Liturgical Verse / Keefer, Sarah Larratt
  • Cynewulf and the Passio S. lulianae / Lapidge, Michael
  • King Cnut's Grant of Sandwich to Christ Church, Canterbury: A New Reading of a Damaged Annal in Two Copies of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle / Graham, Timothy
  • The Fables of the Bayeux Tapestry: An Anglo-Saxon Perspective / Berlin, Gail Ivy
  • N.F.S. Grundtvig's 1840 Edition of the Old English Phoenix: A Vision of a Vision of Paradise / Bjork, Robert E.
  • Hrothgar's 'admirable courage' / Roberts, Jane
  • Questions of Fairness: Fair, Not Fair, and Foul / Paolo Healey, Antonette di
  • Bravery and the Vocabulary of Bravery in Beowulf and the Battle ofMaldon / Bately, Janet
  • Sex in the Dictionary of Old English / Frank, Roberta
  • A Select Bibliography of the Writings of Edward B. Irving Jr.
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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