Undoing Babel : The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (307 pages)
- Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series .
- Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series .
Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Genesis 10-11 -- Introduction -- 1 Early Jewish and Christian Antiquity -- 2 Latin Christian Antiquity -- 3 The Early Anglo-Saxon School at Canterbury -- 4 Bede and Alcuin -- 5 Alfred the Great and the Literature of His Reign -- 6 The Tenth and Early Eleventh Centuries -- 7 The Biblical Poems of Junius 11 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Undoing Babelis the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel narrative amongst Anglo-Saxon authors from late antiquity to the eleventh century.