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The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry: Texts
Contains facsimile pages of the complete manuscript of the Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501 (the "Exeter Book") aling with the Bernard J. Muir's complete critical edition, Allows for comparison of the original manuscript and the transcripts and access to hyperlinked commentaries and bibliographies. Includes search and viewing tools. An animated video clip recounts the history of the manuscript.
Eadmer of Canterbury: Lives and Miracles of Saints Oda, Dunstan, and Oswald
This volume in Oxford Medieval Text contains Eadmer's Lives of Saints Oda, Dunstan, and Oswald, as well as the Miracles of Dunstan and Oswald. These three English saints, together with Æthelwold of Winchester, were key figures in the Benedictine revival of the tenth century, which saw a flowering of Anglo-Saxon religious, artistic, and literary culture. Eadmer of Canterbury (c.1060-c.1130), the secretary, confidant, and biographer of Saint Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury (1033-1109), was one of the most important historians and biographers in the period after the Norman Conquest. His works, written in Latin, look back constantly to the Anglo-Saxon past, while at the same time they accurate...
Leođ
First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Reading Families
Rebecca Krug argues that in the later Middle Ages, people defined themselves in terms of family relationships but increasingly saw their social circumstances as being connected to the written word. Complex family dynamics and social configurations motivated women to engage in text-based activities. Although not all or even the majority of women could read and write, it became natural for women to think of writing as a part of everyday life.Reading Families looks at the literate practice of two individual women, Margaret Paston and Margaret Beaufort, and of two communities in which women were central, the Norwich Lollards and the Bridgettines at Syon Abbey. The book begins with Paston's letters, which were written at her husband's request, and ends with devotional texts that describe the spiritual daughterhood of the Bridgettine readers.Scholars often assume that medieval women's participation in literate culture constituted a rejection of patriarchal authority. Krug maintains, however, that for most women learning to engage with the written word served as a practical response to social changes and was not necessarily a revolutionary act.
Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture
Interdisciplinary approaches to the material culture of the middle ages, from illuminated manuscripts to church architecture.
Compelling God
In Compelling God, Stephanie Clark examines the relationship between prayer, gift giving, the self, and community in Anglo-Saxon England.
A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century
Mark Faulkner offers a compelling new narrative of what happened to English-language writing after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
The Bayeux Tapestry and Its Contexts
A full and provocative reappraisal of the Bayeux "Tapestry", its origins, design and patronage. Aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry (in fact an embroidered hanging) have always remained mysterious, despite much scholarly investigation, not least its design and patron. Here, in the first full-length interdisciplinary approach to the subject, the authors (an art historian and a historian) consider these and other issues. Rejecting the prevalent view that it was commissioned by Odo, the bishop of Bayeux and half-brother of William the Conqueror, or by some other comparable patron, they bring new evidence to bear on the question of its relationship to the abbey of St Augustine's, Canterbury. From the...
