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The Ruthwell Cross and its Texts
Author: Kerstin Majewski
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2022-10-24
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 3110785471
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Ruthwell Cross is one of the finest Anglo-Saxon high crosses that have come down to us. The longest epigraphic text in the Old English Runes Corpus is inscribed on two sides of the monument: it forms an alliterative poem, in which the Cross itself narrates the crucifixion episode. Parts of the inscription are irrevocably lost. This study establishes a historico-cultural context for the Ruthwell Cross’s texts and sculptures. It shows that The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem is an integral part of a Christian artefact but also an independent text. Although its verses match closely with lines of The Dream of the Rood in the Vercelli Book, a comparative analysis gives new insight into their complex relationship. An annotated transliteration of the runes offers intriguing information for runologists. Detailed linguistic and metrical analyses finally yield a new reconstruction of the lost runes. All in all, this study takes a fresh look at the Ruthwell Cross and provides the first scholarly edition of the reconstructed Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem—one of the earliest religious poems of Anglo-Saxon England. It will be of interest to scholars and students of historical linguistics, medieval English literature and culture, art history, and archaeology.
The Ruthwell Cross and Its Story ... With Seven Illustrations
Ruthwell Cross and Its History : a Handbook for Tourists and Students
The Wisdom of Exeter
Author: E.J. Christie
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-09-21
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1501512900
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This interdisciplinary volume collects original essays in literary criticism and literary theory, philology, codicology, metrics, and art history. Composed by prominent scholars in Anglo-Saxon studies, these essays honor the depth and breadth of Patrick W. Conner’s influence in our discipline. As a scholar, teacher, editor, administrator and innovator, Pat has contributed to Anglo-Saxon studies for four decades. It is hard to say which of his legacies is most profound.
Fragments of History
Author: Fred Orton
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A study of the two premier survivals of pre-Viking Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture. This book shows the reader how to understand the monuments as social products in relation to a history of which our knowledge is so fragmentary, and concludes with a discussion of their underlying premises.
Ritual and the Rood
Author: Éamonn Ó Carragáin
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780802090089
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In bringing together these scattered witnesses to the sustained brilliance of Anglo-Saxon artistic achievement across several centuries, ?amonn ? Carrag?in has produced a study of great significance to Anglo-Saxon history.
A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972
Author: Stanley B. Greenfield
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2008-07-28
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1556356374
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Greenfield and Robinson state in their preface that they have sought to include every book, monograph, article, note, and review published on Old English literature since the invention of printing. They have come as close to doing so as two descendants of Adam possibly can, undeterred by the trouble at Babel. (By my count, thirty different languages are represented in the bibliography, sixteen of them frequently.) Rarely has any bibliography in any other discipline equalled the thoroughness and accuracy of this one. It is a contribution for which Greenfield and Robinson will long receive from their colleagues that measure of gratitude reserved for Old English scholarship's most bounteous treasure-givers."--Carl T. Berkhout"What astonishes is how well [Greenfield and Robinson] have succeeded in what they set out to do, how uniformly excellent their volume is in all its profusion of information and detail. . . . The Bibliography will bring scholars that peculiar joy in complex intellectual work done well that only they know; it will be immensely useful, virtually indispensable--if not a vade mecum because of its size . . . then at least an enchiridion with which they will fight their battles on behalf of Beowulf and Brunanburb and the Blickling Homilies."--The Old English Newsletter"[A] volume long needed, [the Bibliography] will now become an indispensable reference work for every student of Old English literature from the beginner to the acknowledged authority."--British Book News
The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems
Author: Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-08-10
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1000920933
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems (1942) contains the many verse texts, most of them short, which are scattered here and there in manuscripts not primarily devoted to Anglo-Saxon poetry. Some, like Battle of Maldon, are well-known, while others are less so. Each verse text is accompanied by an introduction, bibliography and extensive notes.
Holy Cross, Life-Giving Tree
Author: Donnel O'Flynn
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2017-07-17
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0819233676
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A historical perspective of the image of the cross as one of life instead of death What would Christianity be like if the principle of a new creation were its guiding idea, and the Cross as Life-Giving Tree its central image? After exploring this principle’s deep roots in tradition, worship, and art, this book proposes Hildegard of Bingen’s concept of virditas—“green-ness”—as a way to know it in daily life. It claims the Cross as healer of division, both among followers of Jesus and among the nations. Holy Cross, Life-Giving Tree is illustrated with Cross images from throughout the Christian world and compares eastern Christian liturgies of the Cross with those of the west. It recounts the origins of the early Jerusalem cult of the Cross, and invites readers to meditate on Scripture passages used by ancient artists. Each of its six chapters ends with reflection questions for going deeper. Holy Cross, Life-Giving Tree is designed for use by study groups or by individuals.
