| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 339 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Explorations in medieval culture,
2352-0299 ;
volume 11
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Explorations in medieval culture ; v. 11.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Anglo-Saxon predecessors and precedents / Jay Paul Gates and Brian T. O'Camb -- The legacy of King Edgar in the laws of Archbishop Wulfstan / Nicole Marafioti -- Exile and migration in the vernacular lives of Edward "the Confessor" / Erin Michelle Goeres -- Quidam proditor partis Danicae : Aelred's re-imagining of the Anglo-Saxon past / Jay Paul Gates -- The hermitic Topos : "selling" shared sanctity to Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and English audiences / Maren Clegg Hyer -- Looking for holy grandmothers in late medieval nunneries / Cynthia Turner Camp -- Peace weaving and gold giving : Anglo-Saxon queenship in Havelok the Dane / Larissa Tracy -- Writing, rewriting, and disrupting the Anglo-Saxon past in Chaucer's Man of Law's tale / Kathleen Smith -- The case of Poema Morale : Old English homiletic influence in early Middle English verse / Carla María Thomas -- The familiar wisdom of treasured friends and the landscape of conquest in the Proverbs of Alfred / Brian T. O'Camb -- The idea of Bede in English political prophecy / Eric Weiskott. |
| Summary |
"This volume of essays focuses on how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons. Drawing from a reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, each contributor shows how individual poets, ecclesiasts, legists, and institutions claimed Anglo-Saxon predecessors for rhetorical purposes in response to social, cultural, and linguistic change. Contributors trouble simple definitions of identity and period, exploring how medieval authors looked to earlier periods of history to define social identities and make claims for their present moment based on the political fiction of an imagined community of a single, distinct nation unified in identity by descent and religion. Contributors are Cynthia Turner Camp, Irina Dumitrescu, Jay Paul Gates, Erin Michelle Goeres, Mary Kate Hurley, Maren Clegg Hyer, Nicole Marafioti, Brian O'Camb, Kathleen Smith, Carla María Thomas, Larissa Tracy, and Eric Weiskott"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Anglo-Saxons -- Historiography.
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Anglo-Saxons -- Historiography. |
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Anglo-Saxons. |
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon -- Historiography.
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon -- Historiography. |
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon. |
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Civilization, Medieval -- Historiography.
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Civilization, Medieval -- Historiography. |
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Civilization, Medieval. |
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Middle Ages -- Historiography.
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Middle Ages -- Historiography. |
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Literature, Medieval -- Appreciation -- England.
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Literature, Medieval -- Appreciation. |
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England. |
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Anglo-Saxons in literature.
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Anglo-Saxons in literature. |
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Middle Ages in literature.
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Middle Ages in literature. |
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Literature and history -- Great Britain.
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Literature and history. |
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Great Britain. |
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Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 -- Historiography.
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Historiography. |
| Chronological Term |
449-1066 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Gates, Jay Paul, editor.
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O'Camb, Brian, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Remembering the medieval present Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] 9789004395152 (DLC) 2019032904 |
| ISBN |
9004408339 electronic book |
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9789004408333 (electronic book) |
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9789004395152 board |
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