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The Gift in Old English Literature
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Apocryphal lore and the life of Christ in Old English literature
… the influence of apocryphal legends on medieval literature have revealed a surprising number of such traditions current in Anglo-Saxon England. This dissertation examines the sources, transmission, and reception of apocryphal texts and motifs associated with the life of Christ in Old English …
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The Voice of Evil: A Narratological Study of Demonic Characters in Old English Literature
Why are demonic characters so common in Old English poetry? Perhaps evil characters were, as they are today, a source of interest and intrigue; maybe they represented the fears of the Anglo-Saxons; or, it could be that these characters allowed the poets to express what would otherwise be …
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Rebel angels: political theology and the fall of the angels tradition in old English literature
… Theology and the Fall of the Angels Tradition in Old English Literature” argues that the story of the fall of the rebel angels provided Anglo-Saxon authors with a rich discursive field in which to ground earthly business – political power, legal order, communal identity, and the cultural logic of …
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Deixis, movement, and power in Old English literature: Perceptions of space in early medieval England
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The functions of empathy in Anglo-Saxon England
… the articulation of fellow-feeling in the literature and culture of Anglo-Saxon England across a broad corpus of anonymous homilies, saints’ lives, elegies, and heroic poems including Beowulf. The first three chapters identify cultural concepts and literary strategies that enabled …
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Divine and supernatural power in Old English and Old Saxon literature.
This project addresses the differences in the way Old English and Old Saxon poets represent the power of Jesus, the Saints, and Satan in their poetic adaptations of biblical and apocryphal materials. I build upon prior work by scholars such as Robert Boenig and G. Ronald Murphy, who respectively …
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Pledges and Agreements in Old English - A Semantic Field Study
This dissertation investigates the Old English word field for the concepts of ‘pledges’ and agreements by analysing the words belonging to the field in their contextual environments. The particular focus is on the word wedd (‘pledge’), which is shown to have different connotations in different text …
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Apostolic discourse and Christian identity in Anglo-Saxon literature
… Discourse and Christian Identity in Anglo-Saxon Literature” argues that Anglo-Saxon religious writers used traditions about the apostles to inspire and interpret their peoples’ own missionary ambitions abroad, to represent England itself as a center of religious authority, and to articulate a …
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A Count of Days: The Life Course in Old English Poetry
… the representation of the human life course in Old English poetry. It attends to constructions of the lifespan as a durational unit, as well as the ‘stages’ or discrete age-related experiences which together form patterns for life development, shared across a diverse range of texts. Throughout …
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Death, writing, and remembrance in Anglo-Saxon England
… uses of inscription in several genres, including Old English heroic and religious poetry, Anglo-Latin prose, and commemorative texts and inscriptions. Each chapter explores a manifestation of the power of writing to embody the dead in the community of the living. Chapter 1 examines Anglo-Saxon …