Anglo-Saxon Keywords
Published on 30. March 2012
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352 pages
978-1-118-25557-5 (ISBN)
Description
Anglo-Saxon Keywords presents a series of entries that reveal the links between modern ideas and scholarship and the central concepts of Anglo-Saxon literature, language, and material culture. * Reveals important links between central concepts of the Anglo-Saxon period and issues we think about today * Reveals how material culture the history of labor, medicine, technology, identity, masculinity, sex, food, land use is as important as the history of ideas * Offers a richly theorized approach that intersects with many disciplines inside and outside of medieval studies
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Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty. (Choice, 1 November 2012)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-118-25557-5 (9781118255575)
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Allen J. Frantzen is Professor of English and Faculty Scholar at Loyola University Chicago. He has written several books on early English culture and literature, including Desire for Origins: New Language, Old English, and Teaching the Tradition; Before the Closet: Same Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America", and Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War.
Content
Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations x Introduction xii A 1 Aesthetics 1 Agriculture 4 Alcohol 8 Anglo-Saxonism 11 Animals 15 Apocalypse 19 Art 22 Author 26 B 30 Behavior 30 Bible 34 Book 37 Borough 41 C 45 Charters 45 Children 48 Christianity 52 Coinage 56 Cross 59 D 63 Danelaw 63 Death 67 Diet 70 Drama 73 Dreams 77 E 81 Easter 81 Emotions 84 Environment 88 Exile 92 F 96 Fashion 96 Femininity 99 Fishing 103 Franks 106 Friendship 110 G 114 Gender 114 Genre 118 H 122 Hall 122 History 125 Hoard 129 Homeland 133 Homily 136 Hunting 140 I 144 Identity 144 Individuality 148 Ireland 151 L 156 Labor 156 Law 159 Literacy 163 Liturgy 166 M 171 Marriage 171 Masculinity 175 Medicine 178 Mind 182 Music 185 N 190 Nature 190 Norman Conquest 193 O 198 Orality 198 P 202 Paganism 202 Peace 206 Peace-weaver 209 Penance 213 Piety 216 R 221 Race 221 Recreation 224 Reform 228 Rome 231 S 236 Scandinavia 236 Settlement 240 Sex 244 Slavery 247 T 252 Technology 252 Thegn 256 Trade 259 Tradition 263 Translation 266 Trifunctional model 270 V 274 Viking 274 W 278 War 278 Works Cited 283 Index 319