{"product_id":"old-english-tradition-essays-in-honor-of-j-r-hall-medieval-and-renaissance-texts-and-studies-9780866986366","title":"Old English Tradition  Essays in Honor of J R","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOld English Traditioncontains eighteen new essays by leading scholars in the field of Old English literary studies. The collection iscenteredaround five key areas of researchOld English poetics, Anglo-Saxon Christianity,Beowulf, codicology, and early Anglo-Saxon studieson which the work of scholar J.R. Hall, the volume's honorand, has been influential over the course of his career.The volume's contents range from fresh insights on individual Old English poems such asThe Wife's LamentandBeowulf; new studies in Old English metrics and linguistics; codicological examinations of individual manuscripts; fresh editions of understudied texts; and innovative examinations of the role of early antiquarians in shaping the field of Old English literary studies as we know it today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction - by †Fred C. Robinson, Yale University\u003cbr\u003eJ. R. Hall: A Bibliography - by Joseph B. Trahern, Jr., University of Tennessee, Knoxville\u003cbr\u003eI. Old English Poetics\u003cbr\u003eTo Commemorate Friendship: The Life and Times of Old English Wine - by Roberta Frank, Yale University\u003cbr\u003eDeath the Grim Hunter - by Jane Roberts, King’s College London\u003cbr\u003eThe Wife’s Lament and the Poetics of Affect - by Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, University of California–Berkeley\u003cbr\u003eProgress in Old English Metrics - by Thomas M. Cable, University of Texas at Austin\u003cbr\u003eII. Anglo-Saxon Christianity\u003cbr\u003eFigures of Enoch in Bodleian Library MS Junius 11 - by A. N. Doane, University of Wisconsin–Madison\u003cbr\u003eChrist III and “Apparebit repentina dies magna Domini” - by Frederick M. Biggs, University of Connecticut\u003cbr\u003eThe Long Shadow of Alcuin: Cambridge, Pembroke College 25 - by Paul E. Szarmach, Emeritus\u003cbr\u003eThe Eucharistic Dance of the Angels: I Cnut, iv, 1–2 - by Thomas D. Hill, Cornell University\u003cbr\u003eAn Edition of Two Old English Homilies: “The Capital Sins” (HomM 2) and “Good Friday” (HomM 10) - by R. D. Fulk, Indiana University\u003cbr\u003eIII. Beowulf\u003cbr\u003eVerbal Confusion Chiefly in Beowulf - by † E. G. Stanley, University of Oxford\u003cbr\u003eIronic Use of Laf and Three Swords of Doomed Inheritance in Beowulf - by Lindy Brady, University of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003eBeowulf 3074–75: Problems of Interpretation - by Howell Chickering, Amherst College\u003cbr\u003eIV. Codicology\u003cbr\u003eMS CUL Kk 3.18 and the Tremulous Hand of Worcester - by David F. Johnson, Florida State University\u003cbr\u003eA New Light on the Vercelli Book: Textual Science and Manuscript Recovery - by Gregory Heyworth, University of Rochester\u003cbr\u003eV. Early Anglo-Saxon Studies\u003cbr\u003eThe Enlightened Innocence of Franciscus Junius Encounters The Meters of Boethius - by Daniel Donoghue, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003eLaurence Nowell and the Old English Bede - by Carl T. Berkhout, University of Arizona\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Thorpe’s Influence on Joseph Bosworth’s Editions of the Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Orosius, and the Gospels - by Dabney A. Bankert, James Madison University\u003cbr\u003eWho Wrote the Non-Racist Essay “The Anglo-Saxon Race”? Longfellow and Nineteenth-Century American Anglo-Saxonism - by John D. Niles, University of Wisconsin-Madison\u003cbr\u003eBibliography","brand":"Arizona Center for Medieval \u0026 Renaissance Studies,US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406396432727,"sku":"9780866986366","price":68.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780866986366.jpg?v=1730495654","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/old-english-tradition-essays-in-honor-of-j-r-hall-medieval-and-renaissance-texts-and-studies-9780866986366","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}