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Debating with demons : pedagogy and materiality in early English literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heckman, Christina M. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk : D. S. Brewer, 2020.
Series:Anglo-Saxon studies ; 41.
Subjects:
English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism.
Teachers in literature.
Demonology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the devil's secret chamber
  • Part 1. Foundations
  • Spirituo-materiality in the early Middle Ages
  • The artes liberales in the early Middle Ages
  • The devil within: perils of pedagogy in the monastic school
  • Part II. The demonic magister in early English poetry
  • The origin of the teaching demon: Lucifer as magister
  • Demonic teaching and the fall in the Old English Genesis
  • Demonic teaching and saintly discretio in Cynewulf's Juliana
  • Inventing Materia: the True Cross and saintly disputation in Cynewulf's Elene
  • Conclusion: the mysteries of pedagogy.