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020 _a9781118453230 (cloth)
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082 0 0 _a829.09
_bFUL/H
100 1 _aFulk, R. D.
245 1 2 _aA history of Old English literature /
_cR. D. Fulk and Christopher M. Cain
250 _a2nd ed.
260 _aUK:
_bWiley Blackwell,
_c2013.
300 _axi, 492 p.:
_billustrations, maps;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 367-480) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: Anglo-Saxon England and its literature: a social history -- The chronology and varieties of Old English literature -- Anglo-Saxon manuscripts -- Literature of the Alfredian period -- Homilies -- Saints' legends (Rachel S. Anderson) -- Biblical literature -- Liturgical and devotional texts -- Legal texts -- Scientific and scholastic texts -- Wisdom literature and lyric poetry -- Germanic legend and heroic lay -- Additions, annotations, and marginalia -- Conclusion: Making Old English new: Anglo-Saxonism and the cultural work of Old English literature.
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aChristian hagiography
_xHistory
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