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The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium)
K Karasawa
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Description for The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium)
Hardback. First modern text and English translation of an important Anglo-Saxon poem dealing with the liturgical year. Editor(s): Karasawa, Kazutomo. Series: Anglo-Saxon Texts. Num Pages: 245 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 582.
First modern text and English translation of an important Anglo-Saxon poem dealing with the liturgical year. WINNER of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists 2017 Publication Prize: Best Edition The late tenth-century Old English Metrical Calendar (traditionally known as Menologium) summarises, in the characteristicheroic diction and traditional metre of Old English poetry, the major course of the Anglo-Saxon liturgical year. It sets out, in a methodical structure based on the basic temporal framework of the solar/natural year, the locations of the major feasts widely observed in late Anglo-Saxon England. Such a work could have been a practical timepiece ... Read more
First modern text and English translation of an important Anglo-Saxon poem dealing with the liturgical year. WINNER of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists 2017 Publication Prize: Best Edition The late tenth-century Old English Metrical Calendar (traditionally known as Menologium) summarises, in the characteristicheroic diction and traditional metre of Old English poetry, the major course of the Anglo-Saxon liturgical year. It sets out, in a methodical structure based on the basic temporal framework of the solar/natural year, the locations of the major feasts widely observed in late Anglo-Saxon England. Such a work could have been a practical timepiece ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
245
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843844099
SKU
V9781843844099
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Ref
99-50
About K Karasawa
Kazutomo Karasawa is Professor of English philology at Rikkyo University, Tokyo.
Reviews for The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium)
[Karasawa's] work reveals the Menologium to be a much richer, stranger poem than it had previously appeared, and this edition, equipped with a wealth of other supporting texts as well as detailed notes and introduction, will be essential reading for anyone interested in early medieval thought about time.
JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY
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JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY
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