Reading Old English Biblical Poetry : The Book and the Poem in Junius 11 Hardback
by Janet Schrunk Ericksen
Part of the Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series series
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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.
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- Pages:234 pages
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:19/11/2020
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- ISBN:9781487507466
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:234 pages
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:19/11/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781487507466
