Reading the Anglo-Saxon Self Through the Vercelli Book

ISBN-13: 9781433140549 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 152 str.

Amity Reading

Opis

Reading the Anglo-Saxon Self Through the Vercelli Book explores conceptions of subjectivity in Anglo-Saxon England by analyzing the contents and sources of the Vercelli Book, a tenth-century compilation of Old English religious poetry and prose.

Spis treści

List of Tables - Acknowledgments - Abbreviations - Introduction: Bodies, Souls, and Selves in Anglo-Saxon England - Souls With Bodies: Parsing the Self in Vercelli Homilies IV, XXII, and Soul and Body I - Baptism, Conversion, and Selfhood in Andreas - The Self and the Community: Rogationtide and the Ascension in The Dream of the Rood and Vercelli Homilies X, XI, and XXI - Hagiography and the End(s) of the Vercelli Book: Models of Ideal Selfhood in Homilies XVII, XVIII, and XXIII - Index.

O autorze

Amity Reading received her BA from the University of Chicago and her MA and her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently Assistant Professor of English at DePauw University and has previously published on Anglo-Saxon and later medieval religious poetry.