{"product_id":"old-english-ecotheology-the-exeter-book-9789463723824","title":"Old English Ecotheology: The Exeter Book","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOld English Ecotheology examines the impact of environmental crises on early medieval English theology and poetry. Like their modern counterparts, theologians at the turn of the first millennium understood the interconnectedness of the Earth community, and affirmed the independent subjectivity of other-than-humans. The author argues for the existence of a specific Old English ecotheology, and demonstrates the influence of that theology on contemporaneous poetry. Taking the Exeter Book as a microcosm of the poetic corpus, she explores the impact of early medieval apocalypticism and environmental anxiety on Old English wisdom poems, riddles, elegies, and saints' lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Barajas’s prose embodies the generous “mutual custodianship” (179) that she has been arguing throughout this beautiful work, and the book closes with considerations of how we might move forward not only through our ownreimagined engagement with the poetic past but also how an application of this reimagining within our pedagogy may reorient our students and help manifest a better, Earth-centered future.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Carla María Thomas, \u003ccite\u003eModern Philology\u003c\/cite\u003e, Vol. 120, No. 2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Early Medieval Earth Consciousness \u003cbr\u003eÆlfric, Wulfstan, and the Exeter Book \u003cbr\u003eChapter Summaries \u003cbr\u003eChapter I: Old English Ecotheology \u003cbr\u003eMedieval and Modern Ecotheology \u003cbr\u003eConclusions \u003cbr\u003eChapter II: The Web of Creation in Wisdom Poems \u003cbr\u003eGnome(ish) Wisdom in Old English Poetry \u003cbr\u003e “The Web of Mysteries”: Poetic Entanglement in \u003ccite\u003eThe Order of the World\u003c\/cite\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMapping Kinship Connections in \u003ccite\u003eMaxims I\u003c\/cite\u003e \u003cbr\u003eConclusions \u003cbr\u003eChapter III: Identity, Affirmation, and Resistance in the Exeter Riddle Collection \u003cbr\u003eAmbiguous Interpretation in the Exeter Riddle Collection \u003cbr\u003eBirds’-Eye View: \u003ccite\u003eRiddle 6\u003c\/cite\u003e and \u003ccite\u003eRiddle 7\u003c\/cite\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHeroic Horns and Wounded Wood: Riddles of Transformation \u003cbr\u003eConclusions \u003cbr\u003eChapter IV: Trauma and Apocalypse in the Eco-Elegies \u003cbr\u003eEnvironmental Trauma and Natural Depression in \u003ccite\u003eThe Wanderer\u003c\/cite\u003e \u003cbr\u003eApocalypse \/ Now: \u003ccite\u003eThe Ruin\u003c\/cite\u003e \u003cbr\u003eConclusions \u003cbr\u003eChapter V: Mutual Custodianship in the Landscapes of \u003ccite\u003eGu.lac A\u003c\/cite\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHome, Alone: Gu.lac in the Wilderness \u003cbr\u003eLessons in Early Medieval English Environmentalism \u003cbr\u003eConclusions \u003cbr\u003eCoda: Old English Ecotheology \u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Amsterdam University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49427751108951,"sku":"9789463723824","price":101.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/old-english-ecotheology-the-exeter-book-9789463723824","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}