Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon Literature.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (265 pages)
- Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series .
- Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series .
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Boniface's Epistolary Prose Style: The Letters to the English -- Interpretatio Monastica: Biblical Commentary and the Forging of Monastic Identity in the Early Middle Ages -- Æthilwulf poeta -- The Old English Martyrology and Anglo-Saxon Glosses -- Sequences and Intellectual Identity at Winchester -- Saint Who? Building Monastic Identity through Computistical Inquiry in Byrhtferth's Vita S. Ecgwini -- Hebrew Words and English Identity in Educational Texts of Ælfric and Byrhtferth -- Oswald's versus retrogradi: A Forerunner of Post-Conquest Trends in Hexameter Composition -- German Imperial Bishops and Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture on the Eve of the Conquest: The Cambridge Songs and Leofric's Exeter Book -- Writing Community: Osbern and the Negotiations of Identity in the Miracula S. Dunstani -- Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts -- General Index.
In this groundbreaking collection, ten leading scholars explore the intersections between identity and Latin language and literature in Anglo-Saxon England.