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Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking collection, ten leading scholars explore the intersections between identity and Latin language and literature in Anglo-Saxon England.
Trade Review"As a contribution to the study of the Latin textual culture of earlier medieval England – and especially in emphasizing Latin’s own diversity as it interacts sensitively with time, place, and situation rather than viewing it as a monolithic member of a simple intellectual hierarchy – Rebecca Stephenson and Emily V. Thornbury’s Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon Literature has great value, with each chapter offering insights and several producing real innovations of method or perspective." -- Britt Mize, Texas A&M University *
Speculum *
"While many of these essays have interesting things to say about identity formation, the collection has much to offer beyond that topic to anyone interested in the formal analysis of imitation in Latin." -- Carin Ruff, Independent Scholar *
Early Medieval Europe *
Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Boniface's Epistolary Prose Style: The Letters to the English Michael Herren, York University 3. Interpretatio Monastica: Biblical Commentary and the Forging of Monastic Identity in the Early Middle Ages Scott DeGregorio, University of Michigan, Dearborn 4. Aethilwulf poeta Emily Thornbury, University of California, Berkeley 5. The Old English Martyrology and Anglo-Saxon Glosses Christine Rauer, University of St. Andrews 6. Sequences and Intellectual Identity at Winchester Jonathan Davis-Secord, University of New Mexico 7. Saint Who? Building Monastic Identity through Computistical Inquiry in Byrhtferth's Vita S. Ecgwini Rebecca Stephenson, University of Louisiana, Monroe 8. Hebrew Words and English Identity in Educational Texts of Aelfric and Byrhtferth Damian Fleming, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne 9. Oswald's uersus retrogradi: A Forerunner of Post-Conquest Trends in Hexameter Composition Leslie Lockett, The Ohio State University 10. German Imperial Bishops and Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture on the Eve of the Conquest: The Cambridge Songs and Leofric's Exeter Book Elizabeth M. Tyler, University of York 11. Writing Community: Osbern and the Negotiations of Identity in the Miracula S. Dunstani Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, University of California, Berkeley
