Paz Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1599-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

This book explores the voices of nonhuman things in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture, making a valuable contribution to 'thing theory'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paz, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: on Anglo-Saxon things
1 Æschere’s head, Grendel’s mother and the sword that isn’t a sword: unreadable things in Beowulf
2 The ‘thingness’ of time in the Old English riddles of the Exeter Book and Aldhelm’s Latin enigmata
3 The riddles of the Franks Casket: enigmas, agency and assemblage
4 Assembling and reshaping Christianity in the Lives of St Cuthbert and Lindisfarne Gospels
5 The Dream of the Rood and the Ruthwell monument: fragility, brokenness and failure
Afterword: old things with new things to say
Index

Über Autor(innen)

James Paz is Lecturer in Early Medieval English Literature at the University of Manchester