Old English Ecotheology The Exeter Book

Old English Ecotheology examines the impact of environmental crises on early medieval English theology and poetry. Like their modern counterparts, theologians at the turn of the first millennium understood the interconnectedness of the Earth community, and affirmed the independent subjectivity of other-than-humans. The author argues for the existence of a specific Old English ecotheology, and demonstrates the influence of that theology on contemporaneous poetry. Taking the Exeter Book as a microcosm of the poetic corpus, she explores the impact of early medieval apocalypticism and environmental anxiety on Old English wisdom poems, riddles, elegies, and saints' lives.

A propos de l'auteur

Courtney Catherine Barajas is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Medieval and Modern Studies at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Courtney Barajas
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre de poche
• Date de parution: 01.12.2025
• Catégorie: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Général, dictionnaires; Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Antiquité
• EAN: 9781041183709
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4118370-9
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Thème: Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures
• Catégories: Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, POETRY / Medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, ecocriticism;ecotheology;old english poetry;climate change;environment, human-nonhuman relations, saints' lives analysis, wisdom literature studies, environmental anxiety in Old English texts, apocalypticism in literature, early medieval poetry