Reading Old English Biblical Poetry: The Book and the Poem in Junius 11 (Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series)
Janet Schrunk Ericksen
Reading Old English Biblical Poetry considers the Junius 11 manuscript, the only surviving illustrated book of Old English poetry, in terms of its earliest readers and their multiple strategies of reading and making meaning. Junius 11 begins with the Creation story and ends with the final vanquishing of Satan by Jesus. The study is framed by particular attention to the materiality of the manuscript and how that might have informed its early reception, and it broadens considerations of reading beyond those of the manuscript’s compiler and possible patron. As a book, Junius 11 reflects a rich and varied culture of reading that existed in and beyond houses of God in England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and it points to readers who had enough experience to select and find wisdom, narrative pleasure, and a diversity of other things within this orany book’s contents.
年:
2020
出版社:
University of Toronto Press
语言:
english
页:
234
ISBN 10:
1487507461
ISBN 13:
9781487507466
文件:
PDF, 1.67 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2020