Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature

Reveals the rich emotional experience of teaching and learning as revealed in Anglo-Saxon literature.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Letters: Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People; 2. Prayer: Solomon and Saturn I; 3. Violence: Ælfric Bata's colloquies; 4. Recollection: Andreas; 5. Desire: the life of St Mary of Egypt; Conclusion: the ends of teaching.

About the author

Irina Dumitrescu is Junior Professor of English Medieval Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. She is the editor of Rumba Under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi (2016). Her scholarship has been published in journals such as PMLA, Exemplaria, The Chaucer Review, Anglia, Postmedieval, Forum for Modern Language Studies, and in various international collections. Her literary essays have appeared in the Yale Review, Southwest Review, The Atlantic, and Longreads, and been reprinted in Best American Essays 2016.

Summary

This engaging study explores how early medieval writers reflected on the nature of education and the acquisition of wisdom. By studying representations of teaching and learning in five early English texts, Irina Dumitrescu sheds light on the underappreciated emotional and cognitive complexities of Anglo-Saxon instruction.

Product details

• Authors: Irina Dumitrescu, Irina (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-U Dumitrescu, Irina (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn) Dumitrescu, DUMITRESCU IRINA
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781108416863
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41686-3
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; Cambridge Studies in Medieval; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Irland, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Historical & comparative linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Anglo-Saxon / Old English, Historical and comparative linguistics, Anglo-Saxon, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc