God's exiles and English verse : on the Exeter anthology of Old English poetry /

This monograph is a critical study of the medieval manuscript held in Exeter Cathedral Library, popularly known as 'The Exeter Book'. Recent scholarship, including the standard edition of the text, published by UEP in 2000 (2 ed'n 2006), has re-named the manuscript 'The Exeter An...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Niles, John D. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2019.
Series:	Exeter medieval.
Subjects:	Exeter book. 450-1100 Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature. English poetry > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism. Manuscripts, English (Old) > England > Exeter > History. Religious poetry > History and criticism. English poetry > Old English. Manuscripts, English (Old) Religious poetry. England > Exeter. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

Preface and acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Part one: Reading the anthology in its historical context. Monastic poets
Scribes, authors, compilers and readers
Exeter, Glastonbury and the Benedictine reform
Part two: Reading the anthology as a codicological whole. An overview of the book's contents
Teaching the tools of the poet's trade
The enigmas- a special problem?
Poetry and world-view
Keywords
Intratextual hermeneutics
Summary and conclusions
Appendix 1: A translation of The wanderer
Appendix 2: Folio-by-folio contents of the Exeter anthology
Appendix 3: Latin genre terms and the poems of the Exeter anthology
Bibliography of works cited
Index of modern authors cited
Index of Old English words discussed
General index.