Phoenix

Zusammenfassung The edition of this poem from the Exeter Book includes appendices of the two Latin sources of the poem and the prose versions of the phoenix story in Old English and Old Icelandic! and a glossary. Preface, v; Abbreviations, viii; Introduction, 1; The Manuscript, 1; Language, 3; The Development of the Phoenix Story, 8; Paradise, 13; Sources, Authorship and Date, 17; The Form, 24; Select Bibliography, 36; Additional Bibliography, 43; Text; The Phoenix, 49; Notes, 68; Appendices; I (a) Carmen de ave phoenice, 92; (b) Ambrose's Hexameron Bk. V, ch. 79-80, 96; II (a) The Prose Phoenix, 98; (b) An Old Norse Version of The Prose Phoenix, 100; Glossaries; Old English, 104; Latin, 125; Illustrations of the phoenix from Bestiaries, Frontispiece.

Product details

• Authors: N. F. Blake, N.F. Blake
• Assisted by: N. F. Blake (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Exeter Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.1990
• EAN: 9780859893428
• ISBN: 978-0-85989-342-8
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies; Exeter Mediaeval Texts & Studies; Exeter Medieval Texts and Stud; Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies; Exeter Medieval Texts and Stud
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages