Source of wisdom : Old English and early medieval Latin studies in honour of Thomas D. Hill /
As one of the most prolific and influential scholars in the field, Thomas D. Hill has made an indelible mark on the study of Old English literature. In celebration of his distinguished career, the editors of Source of Wisdom have assembled a wide-ranging collection of nineteen original essays on Old...
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University of Toronto Press,
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| Series: | Toronto Old English series ;
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Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Note on Quotations
- Part I: Beowulf
- Beasts of Battle, South and North
- The Fates of Men in Beowulf
- Folio 179 of the Beowulf Manuscript
- Part II: Old English Religious and Sapiential Poetry
- Trinitarian Language: Augustine, The Dream of the Rood, and Ã?lfric
- The Leaps of Christ and The Dream of the Rood
- ��u eart se weallstan�: Architectural Metaphor and Christological Imagery in the Old English Christ I and the Book of Kells
- Remembering in Circles: The Wife�s Lament, Conversatio, and the Community of MemoryA Word to the Wise: Thinking, Knowledge, and Wisdom in The Wanderer
- Part III: Old English Prose
- Alfred�s Nero
- The �Remigian� Glosses on Boethius�s Consolatio Philosophiae in Context
- Why Ditch the Dialogues? Reclaiming an Invisible Text
- Hagiography and Violence: Military Men in �lfric�s Lives of Saints
- A New Latin Source for Two Old English Homilies (Fadda I and Blickling I): Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo App. 125, and the Ideology of Chastity in the Anglo-Saxon Benedictine ReformChrist�s Birth through Mary�s Right Breast: An Echo of Carolingian Heresy in the Old English Adrian and Ritheus
- Part IV: Old English beyond the Conquest
- The Peterborough Chronicle and the Invention of �Holding Court� in Twelfth-Century England
- Echoes of Old English Alliterative Collocations in Middle English Alliterative Proverbs
- Part V: Early Medieval Latin
- Bede�s Style: A Neglected Historiographical Model for the Style of the Historia Ecclesiastica?Crux-busting on the Danube: uel Coniectanea in Cosmographiam Aethici, ut dicitur, Istri
- The Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius and Scriptural Study at Salisbury in the Eleventh Century
- Appendix 1. Publications of Thomas D. Hill
- Appendix 2. Dissertations Directed
- Contributors
- Index
- Index of Manuscripts
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