Reading Old English Wisdom

Reading Old English Wisdom
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9781527565319
ISBN-13 : 1527565319
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Book Synopsis Reading Old English Wisdom by : Robert DiNapoli

Download or read book Reading Old English Wisdom written by Robert DiNapoli and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book translates and comments on a selection of Old English poems that modern scholars identify as “wisdom” texts. These comprise collections of maxims, philosophical and cosmological speculation, and historical meditation. Composed by monastic authors from the ninth to the eleventh centuries, they mingle orthodox Christian beliefs with pre-Christian sensibilities embedded in the linguistic texture of Anglo-Saxon verse itself. Their preoccupation with how the human psyche responds to the challenges of incarnate life in space and time lends them a wide-ranging interest for students of medieval religion, social history, and psychology. Many are superb poems in their own right, whose quality the translations here serve to communicate to modern readers. The book’s commentaries engage sympathetically with patterns of thought and imagination both remote from us in time and yet strangely familiar.

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