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Informationen zum Autor Phillip Pulsiano is late Professor of English at Villanova University. He authored numerous articles on Old and Middle English poetry and prose, and co-edited the Garland Encyclopaedia of Medieval Scandinavia (with Paul Acker and Kirsten Wolf). He had completed the first volume of The Old English Psalters (for Toronto University Press), and had undertaken significant research on Latin female saints' lives from the medieval period, and (with Joseph P. McGowan) the prose texts in the Beowulf -manuscript: work that will be published posthumously. Elaine M. Treharne is Professor of Early English at Florida State University. She is author of The Old English Life of St Nicholas with the Old English Life of St Giles (1997), co-editor of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and their Heritage (with Philip Pulsiano), Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century (with Mary Swan), and Readings in Medieval Texts (with David Johnson). She is the author of Old and Middle English: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2003) and an editor for Review of English Studies and Literature Compass . She currently works on the ideology of early English texts and their physical contexts. Klappentext This stimulating Companion brings together leading scholars from America, the Antipodes, and Europe to point the way ahead for Anglo-Saxon studies. The scope of the volume is unparalleled, embracing not only the literature of the period, but also the cultural background and the discipline of Anglo-Saxon studies, past, present and future. The chapters are linked into five sections covering contexts, readings, genres, intertextualities and debates. The combination of the discussion of primary material and manuscript sources with critical analysis and readings breaks new ground: fresh approaches are offered, genres of writing not normally studied are opened up, and readers are shown how texts can be read in their particular cultural milieu. The complete volume is essential reading for upper-level students or faculty who want a current and challenging overview of the field. Zusammenfassung This acclaimed volume explores and unravels the contexts! readings! genres! intertextualities and debates within Anglo-Saxon studies. * Brings together specially-commissioned contributions from a team of leading European and American scholars. * Embraces both the literature and the cultural background of the period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors x Preface xv Acknowledgements xvi Abbreviations xvii Map 1 Late Anglo-Saxon England xviii Part I Contexts and Perspectives 1 1 An Introduction to the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Vernacular Literature 3 Elaine Treharne and Phillip Pulsiano 2 An Introduction to the Corpus of Anglo-Latin Literature 11 Joseph P. McGowan 3 Transmission of Literature and Learning: Anglo-Saxon Scribal Culture 50 Jonathan Wilcox 4 Authorship and Anonymity 71 Mary Swan 5 Audience(s), Reception, Literacy 84 Hugh Magennis 6 Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Production: Issues of Making and Using 102 Michelle P. Brown Part II Readings: Cultural Framework and Heritage 119 7 The Germanic Background 121 Patrizia Lendinara 8 Religious Context: Pre-Benedictine Reform Period 135 Susan Irvine 9 The Benedictine Reform and Beyond 151 Joyce Hill 10 Legal and Documentary Writings 170 Carole Hough 11 Scientific and Medical Writings 188 Stephanie Hollis 12 Prayers, Glosses and Glossaries 209 Phillip Pulsiano Part III Genres and Modes 231 13 Religious Prose 233 Roy M. Liuzza 14 Religious Poetry 251 Patrick W. Conner ...
