Title Source of Wisdom : Old English & Early Medieval Latin Studies in Honour of Thomas D. Hill

Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (446 pages) Series Toronto Old English Studies Toronto Old English Studies Contents Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Note on Quotations -- Part I: Beowulf -- Beasts of Battle, South and North -- The Fates of Men in Beowulf -- Folio 179 of the Beowulf Manuscript -- Part II: Old English Religious and Sapiential Poetry -- Trinitarian Language: Augustine, The Dream of the Rood, and Ælfric -- The Leaps of Christ and The Dream of the Rood -- 'Đu eart se weallstan': Architectural Metaphor and Christological Imagery in the Old English Christ I and the Book of Kells -- Remembering in Circles: The Wife's Lament, Conversatio, and the Community of Memory -- A Word to the Wise: Thinking, Knowledge, and Wisdom in The Wanderer -- Part III: Old English Prose -- Alfred's Nero -- The 'Remigian' Glosses on Boethius's Consolatio Philosophiae in Context -- Why Ditch the Dialogues? Reclaiming an Invisible Text -- Hagiography and Violence: Military Men in Ælfric's Lives of Saints -- A New Latin Source for Two Old English Homilies (Fadda I and Blickling I): Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo App. 125, and the Ideology of Chastity in the Anglo-Saxon Benedictine Reform -- Christ's Birth through Mary's Right Breast: An Echo of Carolingian Heresy in the Old English Adrian and Ritheus -- Part IV: Old English beyond the Conquest -- The Peterborough Chronicle and the Invention of 'Holding Court' in Twelfth-Century England -- Echoes of Old English Alliterative Collocations in Middle English Alliterative Proverbs -- Part V: Early Medieval Latin -- Bede's Style: A Neglected Historiographical Model for the Style of the Historia Ecclesiastica? -- Crux-busting on the Danube: uel Coniectanea in Cosmographiam Aethici, ut dicitur, Istri -- The Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius and Scriptural Study at Salisbury in the Eleventh Century -- Appendix 1. Publications of Thomas D. Hill -- Appendix 2. Dissertations Directed -- Contributors -- Index -- Index of Manuscripts B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Y -- Z -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z Summary Source of Wisdom is, ultimately, a contribution to the understanding of medieval English literature and the textual traditions that contributed to its development Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index "Publications of Thomas D. Hill": pages 387-400 Notes Print version record Subject Hill, Thomas D., 1940- SUBJECT Hill, Thomas D., 1940- fast Subject English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- England -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval. English literature -- Old English Latin literature, Medieval and modern England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Festschriften Festschriften. Form Electronic book Author Biggs, Frederick Hall, Thomas N ISBN 9781442684812 144268481X

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