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Old English Prose of Secular Learning

Old English Prose of Secular Learning - Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English Literature

Hardback (14 Jan 1993)

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Publisher's Synopsis

First title in a new series of annotated bibliographies - includes prose proverbs, romances, computistical texts, Enchiridion, magico- medical literature, etc. An essential resource for scholarly research, this new series of annotated bibliographies covers Old and Middle English literature outside those major subject areas already served by existing bibliographies. Coverage includes editions of texts; manuscripts and textual studies; lexical, grammatical and stylistic studies; bibliographies and indexes; interpretive and critical studies; commentaries on metrics and versification. The Old English writingsusually termed `secular' are particularly relevant to the development of cultural studies, especially the study of education and the assimilation of classical learning in the Anglo-Saxon period. The annotations of this volume cover the prose proverbs, dialogues and romances, the computistical texts and Byrhtferth's Enchiridion, as well as the magico-medical literature and associated texts (including the prognostics and the lapidary). TOM BURTON, Series Editor, teaches at the University of Adelaide. STEPHANIE HOLLIS and MICHAEL WRIGHT teach at the University of Auckland.

About the Publisher

D.S. Brewer

Boydell & Brewer Ltd was formed in 1978. It merged two companies, Boydell Press and D.S. Brewer, whose founders, Richard Barber and Derek Brewer, were themselves scholars - Brewer a Chaucer specialist and subsequently Professor of English and Master of Emmanuel College, Barber a medieval historian and Arthurian. Richard Barber is still a highly active scholar and continues to publish eminently in his own right and offers a vast amount of knowledge and experience to Boydell & Brewer.

Book information

ISBN: 9780859913430
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint: D.S. Brewer
Pub date:
DEWEY: 016.8298
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 383
Weight: 839g
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 36mm