Wolves In Beowulf And Other Old English Texts
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Wolves In Beowulf And Other Old English Texts
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Author : Elizabeth Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2022
Wolves In Beowulf And Other Old English Texts written by Elizabeth Marshall and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Literary Criticism categories.
A fresh and sympathetic investigation of the depiction of wolves in early medieval literature, recuperating their reputation. The best-known wolves of Old English literature are the Beasts of Battle, alongside ravens and eagles as ravenous heralds of doom who haunt the battlefield in the hope of fresh meat plucked from still-warm bodies. Yet to reduce these animals to mere corpse-scavengers is to deny that they are frequently imbued with a variety of far more nuanced meanings elsewhere in the corpus. Two such meanings are inherited from ancient and medieval European lupine motifs: the superstition that the wolf could steal a person's speech, and the perceived contiguous natures of wolves and human outlaws. Tracing the history of these associations and the evidence to suggest that they were known to writers working in early medieval England, this book provides new, animal-centric readings of Wulf and Eadwacer, Abbo of Fleury and Ælfric's Passiones Eadmundi, and Beowulf, placing these texts within a lupine literary network that transcends time and place. By exploring the intricate, contradictory, and even sympathetic depictions of the wolves and wolf-like entities found within these texts, this book banishes all notions of the medieval wolf as the one-dimensional, man-eating creature that it is so often understood to be.
Genesis Myth In Beowulf And Old English Biblical Poetry
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Author : Joseph St. John
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-07-31
Genesis Myth In Beowulf And Old English Biblical Poetry written by Joseph St. John and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related myth in the Old Testament poems Genesis A and Genesis B, as well as in Beowulf, a secular heroic narrative. The book explores how the Genesis poems resort to the Christian exegetical tradition and draw on secular social norms to deliver their biblically derived and related narratives in a manner relevant to their Christian Anglo-Saxon audiences. In this book it is suggested that these elements work in unison, and that the two Genesis poems function coherently in the context of the Junius 11 manuscript. Moreover, the book explores recourse to Genesis-derived myth in Beowulf, and points to important similarities between this text and the Genesis poems. It is therefore shown that while Beowulf differs from the Genesis poems in several respects, it belongs in a corpus where religious verse enjoys prominence.
The Wolf
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Author : Ian Convery
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2023
The Wolf written by Ian Convery and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Art categories.
Intro -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Poem: Trophic Cascade by Camille T Dungy -- Foreword -- Part I. Imagining the Wolf -- 1 The Wolf in the Human Mind Across Space and Time -- 2 A History of Wolves and People in France -- 3 Wolves and Other Mammals Hunted in Medieval English Forests -- 4 'Uuluesheued!' The Historical Significance of the Wolf to Early Indo-Europeans -- 5 Wolves Behind Bars -- 6 Nazi Werewolves from Outer Space: Posthuman-Wolf-Multiplicities and their (Mis)appropriations -- 7 Never Mind the Girl -- What About the Wolf? -- 8 Whose Wolf Is It Anyway? Wolves, Wilderness and Belonging -- 9 Defined 'as much by their absence as their iconography': Reimagining Wolves in Cumbria in Sarah Hall's The Wolf Border -- 10 A 'Wasteland' Infested by Wolves: The Fallacy of 'Dark Age' England -- Part II. What Makes the Wolf? -- 11 The Wolf Pack -- 12 The Wolf in the Pastoral System of Southern France -- 13 Contemporary Public Images of the Wolf -- 14 The Sweetness of Freedom: Reflections on the Occasion of the Japanese Wolf -- 15 Reimagining the Dingo: The 'Australian Wolf' or Just a Feral Dog? -- 16 Pushing the Ecological Niche: A Sea Wolf Called Takaya -- 17 'Hunger-Greedy Appetite': The Wolf in Early-Modern English Natural History -- 18 What About the Coywolf? -- 19 Is That a Wolf? Politics, Science and Red Wolf Identity -- 20 The Thylacine: A Wolf in Name Only -- Part III. Return of the Wolf -- 21 Landscapes of Coexistence: Livestock and Wolves in the Mountains of North Spain -- 22 The Wolves of Yellowstone: Saviours of the Songbird or Pieces of the Puzzle? -- 23 Wolf-Beaver Dynamics in the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem, Minnesota.
Trees As Symbol And Metaphor In The Middle Ages
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Author : Michael D. J. Bintley
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2024
Trees As Symbol And Metaphor In The Middle Ages written by Michael D. J. Bintley and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Art categories.
WINNER: AFCEMS Prize 2024 Highlights human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when their lofty boughs were weighted with meaning. Forests, with their interlacing networks of trees and secret patterns of communication, are powerful entities for thinking-with. A majestic terrestrial community of arboreal others, their presence echoes, entangles, and resonates deeply with the human world. The chapters interrogate the pre-Anthropocene environment, reflecting on trees as metaphors for kinship and knowledge as they appear in literary, historical, art-historical, and philosophical sources. They examine images of trees and trees in-themselves across a range of environmental, material, and intellectual contexts, and consider how humans used arboreal and rhizomatic forms to negotiate bodies of knowledge and processes of transition. Looking beyond medieval Europe, they include discussion of parallel developments in the Islamic world and that of the Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand.
Landscapes And Environments Of The Middle Ages
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Author : Michael Bintley
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-08-14
Landscapes And Environments Of The Middle Ages written by Michael Bintley and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-14 with History categories.
This book is a comprehensive introduction to the landscapes of the Middle Ages within and beyond Europe, paying close attention to the relationship between ‘real’ and imagined landscapes and the ways that medieval people made and inhabited their world. Rather than studying 'nature' in the Middle Ages, the book instead examines the spaces that people constructed through soil, stone, and song; water and wasteland; plants and animals; and timber, textiles, and texts, which in turn made up the medieval world. Likewise, the text emphasises a definition of environment that focuses on ‘living with’, inviting readers to think about the more-than-human worlds that medieval people depended on, cared for, constructed, and damaged. Bringing together a wide range of primary source material, including evidence from texts, material culture, and visual arts, the book reflects the diversity of landscapes and human responses to them throughout the course of this period and considers the role that these medieval worlds have played in shaping the modern, both physically and culturally. Landscapes and Environments of the Middle Ages is an excellent resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students in medieval studies and history, offering interdisciplinary, transhistorical, and transnational insights into this period of immense change and innovation.
Animal Human Relationships In Medieval Iceland
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Author : Harriet J. Evans Tang
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2022
Animal Human Relationships In Medieval Iceland written by Harriet J. Evans Tang and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Literary Criticism categories.
A multi-disciplinary investigation of the links between people and animals, in reality and representation.Domestic animals played a range of roles in the imaginative world of medieval Icelanders: from partners in settlement and household allies, to violent offenders, foster-kin and surrogate wives, they were vital and effective members of the multispecies communities established from the ninth century onwards. This book examines the domestic animals of early Iceland in their physical and textual contexts, through detailed analysis of the spaces and places of the Icelandic farm and farming landscape, and textual sources such as The Book of Settlements, the earliest Icelandic laws, and various episodes from the Sagas and Tales of Icelanders. Taking a multidisciplinary approach to animal-human relationships, it sees animals not solely as symbols, metaphors, or objects, but as subjects in affective relationships with their human co-settlers who become the focus of intense exploration, delight, anxiety and condemnation in later textual narratives. By inviting readers to question how these sources form, embrace, or reject animal-human relationships, it provides a resource for understanding these archaeological sites and textual narratives differently: as products of multispecies communities in which animals and humans lived, worked, and died together.ation in later textual narratives. By inviting readers to question how these sources form, embrace, or reject animal-human relationships, it provides a resource for understanding these archaeological sites and textual narratives differently: as products of multispecies communities in which animals and humans lived, worked, and died together.ation in later textual narratives. By inviting readers to question how these sources form, embrace, or reject animal-human relationships, it provides a resource for understanding these archaeological sites and textual narratives differently: as products of multispecies communities in which animals and humans lived, worked, and died together.ation in later textual narratives. By inviting readers to question how these sources form, embrace, or reject animal-human relationships, it provides a resource for understanding these archaeological sites and textual narratives differently: as products of multispecies communities in which animals and humans lived, worked, and died together.
Old English Philology
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Author : Leonard Neidorf
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2016
Old English Philology written by Leonard Neidorf and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Essays bringing out the crucial importance of philology for understanding Old English texts
Neomedievalism Popular Culture And The Academy
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Author : KellyAnn Fitzpatrick
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2019
Neomedievalism Popular Culture And The Academy written by KellyAnn Fitzpatrick and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
The medieval in the modern world is here explored in a variety of media, from film and book to gaming.
Representations Of The Natural World In Old English Poetry
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Author : Jennifer Neville
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-03-13
Representations Of The Natural World In Old English Poetry written by Jennifer Neville and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines descriptions of the natural world in a wide range of Old English poetry. Jennifer Neville describes the physical conditions experienced by the Anglo-Saxons - the animals, diseases, landscapes, seas and weather with which they had to contend. She argues that poetic descriptions of these elements were not a reflection of the existing physical conditions but a literary device used by Anglo-Saxons to define more important issues: the state of humanity, the creation and maintenance of society, the power of individuals, the relationship between God and creation and the power of writing to control information. Examples of contemporary literature in other languages are used to provide a sense of Old English poetry's particular approach, which incorporated elements from Germanic, Christian and classical sources. The result of this approach was not a consistent cosmological scheme but a rather contradictory vision which reveals much about how the Anglo-Saxons viewed themselves.
The Anglo Saxon World
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Author : Kevin Crossley-Holland
language : en
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Release Date : 1983
The Anglo Saxon World written by Kevin Crossley-Holland and has been published by Barnes & Noble this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with History categories.
The Anglo-Saxon World introduces the Anglo-Saxons in their own words - their chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms, and above all their magnificent poems. Most of the greatest surviving poems are printed here in their entirety: the reader will find the whole of Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, and the haunting elegiac poems. Here is a word picture of a people who came to these islands as pagans, subscribing to the Germanic heroic code, and yet within 200 years had become Christian to such effect that England was the centre of missionary endeavour and, for a time, the heart of European civilisation.Kevin Crossley-Holland places the poems and prose in context with his skilful interpretation of the Anglo-Saxon world; his translations have been widely acclaimed, and of BeowulfCharles Causley has written `the poem has at last found its translator'. The many illustrations draw on the splendours of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and jewellery and a wealth of archaeological finds.KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND is a poet and writer who takes a particular interest in the middle ages and in traditional tale: in addition to his translations from the Anglo-Saxon, he is also the author of versions of the Norse myths.