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  • Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes

    Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination

    by Heide Estes ...
    Series series Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures
    Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people's actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating how Anglo-Saxons interacted with and conceived of their lived environments. Examining Old English poems, such as Beowulf and Judith, as well as descriptions of natural events ... Read more

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  • Writing the World in Early Medieval England

    by Nicole Guenther Discenza, Heide Estes ...
    Series series Elements in England in the Early Medieval World
    The early medieval English were far more diverse and better connected to a broader world. Their writings reveal substantial interest in Europe, Asia, and Africa while they situated themselves firmly within Christian Europe. They drew many ideas from textual sources and filled out their conceptions from their own travels and interactions with visitors. Chronicles, histories, poetry, homilies, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature

    Edited by Malcolm Godden, Michael Lapidge ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and to provide a clear and accessible introduction for those encountering Old English literature for the first time. Including seventeen essays by distinguished scholars, this new edition provides a discussion of the literature of the period 600 to 1066 in the context of how Anglo-Saxon society functioned. New ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature

    Edited by Clare A. Lees ...
    Series series The New Cambridge History of English Literature
    Informed by multicultural, multidisciplinary perspectives, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature offers a new exploration of the earliest writing in Britain and Ireland, from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-twelfth century. Beginning with an account of writing itself, as well as of scripts and manuscript art, subsequent chapters examine the earliest texts from England, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Understanding Celtic Religion

    Revisiting the Pagan Past

    by Katja Ritari, Alexandra Bergholm ...
    Series series New Approaches to Celtic Religion and Mythology
    Although it has long been acknowledged that the early Irish literary corpus preserves both pre-Christian and Christian elements, the challenges involved in the understanding of these different strata have not been subjected to critical examination. This volume draws attention to the importance of reconsidering the relationship between religion and mythology, as well as the concept of ‘Celtic ... Read more

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  • The Aesthetics of Nostalgia

    Historical Representation in Old English Verse

    by Renee R. Trilling ...
    Series series Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
    Heroic poetry was central to the construction of Anglo-Saxon values, beliefs, and community identity and its subject matter is often analyzed as a window into Anglo-Saxon life. However, these poems are works of art as well as vehicles for ideology. Aesthetics of Nostalgia reads Anglo-Saxon historical verse in terms of how its aesthetic form interacted with the culture and politics of the period ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Anglo-Saxon Keywords

    by Allen J. Frantzen ...
    Series Book 2 - Keywords in Literature and Culture (KILC).
    Anglo-Saxon Keywords presents a series of entries that reveal the links between modern ideas and scholarship and the central concepts of Anglo-Saxon literature, language, and material culture.Reveals important links between central concepts of the Anglo-Saxon period and issues we think about todayReveals how material culture—the history of labor, medicine, technology, identity, masculinity, sex, ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Trees in the Religions of Early Medieval England

    by Michael Bintley, Michael Bintley ...
    Trees were of fundamental importance in Anglo-Saxon material culture - but they were also a powerful presence in Anglo-Saxon religion before and after the introduction of Christianity. This book shows that they remained prominentin early English Christianity, and indeed that they may have played a crucial role in mediating the transition between ancient beliefs and the new faith. It argues that ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

    The Untold History of English

    by John McWhorter ...
    A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammarWhy do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of “I read a catalog”? Why do we say “do” at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Language distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Dominion

    How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

    by Tom Holland ...
    An extraordinary account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination, from the author of Rubicon**.****“A galloping tour of Christianity’s influence across the last 2,000 years.” —**New York TimesCrucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment reserved for slaves. How astonishing it was, then, that people should have come to believe that one ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Sociolinguistics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Edwards ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Sociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at the shape or sound of words--morphology or phonology--and more at how our words and sentences are influenced by the society around us--for instance, how the accent or the dialect we use has been shaped by where we come from or which social class we belong ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • The Private Lives of the Saints

    Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England

    by Janina Ramirez ...
    From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Femina'Ramirez blasts a powerful spotlight into the so-called Dark Ages' - Dan SnowSkulduggery, power struggles and politics, The Private Lives of the Saints offers an original and fascinating re-examination of life in Anglo-Saxon England. Taking them down from the clouds of their heavenly status, Sunday Times bestselling author and renowned Oxford ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD