Source of Wisdom

by Wright, Charles D.; Biggs, Frederick M.; Hall, Thomas N.

• ISBN13: 9780802093677
• ISBN10: 0802093671
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-30
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

As one of the most prolific and influential scholars in the field, Thomas D. Hill has made an indelible mark on the study of Old English literature. In celebration of his distinguished career, the editors of Source of Wisdomhave assembled a wide-ranging collection of nineteen original essays on Old English poetry and prose as well as early medieval Latin, touching upon many of Hill's specific research interests.Among the topics examined in this volume are the Christian-Latin sources of Old English texts, including religious and 'sapiential' poetry, and prose translations of Latin writings. Old English poems such as Beowulf, The Dream of the Rood, and The Wife's Lamentare treated, throughout, to thematic, textual, stylistic, lexical, and source analysis. Prose writers of the period such as King Alfred and Wærferth, as well as medieval Latin writers such as Bede and Pseudo-Methodius are also discussed. As an added feature, the volume includes a bibliography of publications by Thomas D. Hill.Source of Wisdomis, ultimately, a contribution to the understanding of medieval English literature and the textual traditions that contributed to its development.

Author Biography

"Charles D. Wright is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Frederick M. Biggs is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Thomas N. Hall is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Notre Dame."

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xxi
Note on Quotations	p. xxiv
Beowulf
Beasts of Battle, South and North	p. 3
The Fates of Men in Beowulf	p. 26
Folio 179 of the Beowulf Manuscript	p. 52
Old English Religious and Sapiential Poetry
Trinitarian Language: Augustine, The Dream of the Rood, and Aelfric	p. 63
The Leaps of Christ and The Dream of the Rood	p. 80
'Du eart se weallstan': Architectural Metaphor and Christological Imagery in the Old English Christ I and the Book of Kells	p. 90
Remembering in Circles: The Wife's Lament, Conversatio, and the Community of Memory	p. 113
A Word to the Wise: Thinking, Knowledge, and Wisdom in The Wanderer	p. 130
Old English Prose
Alfred's Nero	p. 147
The 'Remigian' Glosses on Boethius's Consolatio Philosophiae in Context	p. 168
Why Ditch the Dialogues? Reclaiming an Invisible Text	p. 201
Hagiography and Violence: Military Men in Aelfric's Lives of Saints	p. 217
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	p. 239
Christ's Birth through Mary's Right Breast: An Echo of Carolingian Heresy in the Old English Adrian and Ritheus	p. 266
Old English beyond the Conquest
The Peterborough Chronicle and the Invention of 'Holding Court' in Twelfth-Century England	p. 293
Echoes of Old English Alliterative Collocations in Middle English Alliterative Proverbs	p. 311
Early Medieval Latin
Bede's Style: A Neglected Historiographical Model for the Style of the Historia Ecclesiastica?	p. 329
Crux-busting on the Danube: uel Coniectanea in Cosmographiam Aethici, ut dicitur, Istri	p. 353
The Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius and Scriptural Study at Salisbury in the Eleventh Century	p. 370
Publications of Thomas D. Hill	p. 387
Dissertations Directed by Thomas D. Hill	p. 399
Contributors	p. 401
Index	p. 403
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