Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England

This book writes the cultural and intellectual history of distraction through the study of the affective practices of a particular community of medieval writers and readers: the influential circle of Æthelwold (Bishop of Winchester, 963-984).

Info autore

Erica Weaver is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published widely in New Literary History, Representations, Anglo-Saxon England, and elsewhere, and her article on the Old English Boethius was awarded the Paul E. Szarmach Prize. She is also co-editor, with A. Joseph McMullen, of The Legacy of Boethius in Medieval England: The Consolation and its Afterlives and, with Daniel C. Remein, of Dating Beowulf: Studies in Intimacy. She studied English and Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Columbia University, summa cum laude, before completing her PhD in English at Harvard.

Riassunto

This book writes the cultural and intellectual history of distraction through the study of the affective practices of a particular community of medieval writers and readers: the influential circle of Ã?thelwold (Bishop of Winchester, 963-984).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Erica Weaver, Erica (Assistant Professor of English Weaver
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 13.03.2025
• EAN: 9780198922094
• ISBN: 978-0-19-892209-4
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica classica; History, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, RELIGION / Christianity / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, RELIGION / Monasticism, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, Christianity, Medieval History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Cognition & cognitive psychology, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Cognition and cognitive psychology, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Religious communities and monasticism, Christian communities & monasticism