Reading Old English Biblical poetry : the book and the poem in Junius 11 /
"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 vanq...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021] |
| Series: | Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ;
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text |
| Summary: | "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 or any book's contents."-- |
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| Item Description: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 09, 2020). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 222 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781487536305 1487536305 9781487536299 1487536291 |