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Old English Canons Theodore C
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Artikel-Nr:
9780199668182
Veröffentl:
2012
Erscheinungsdatum:
29.12.2012
Seiten:
176
Autor:
R D Fulk
Gewicht:
363 g
Format:
216x142x23 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Stefan Jurasinski is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York at Brockport. His publishedwork has focused on aspects of Anglo-Saxon legal history and on the literature of the early and late Middle Ages.He is at work currently on a book-length study of the Old English penitentials and a collaborative edition (with LisiOliver) of the laws of Alfred and Ine for the Early English Laws Project.R.D. Fulk is Class of 1964 Chancellor's Professor of English at Indiana University. His research centres onGermanic and Celtic languages and literatures of the Middle Ages (with special emphasis on Old English and OldNorse studies), and on comparative Indo-European linguistics, with particular attention to the history of the Englishlanguage.
The Old English Canons of Theodore is one of the earliest handbooks of penance to appear in any West European vernacular. This edition situates the texts within the context of early penitential practice and social history, and provides a full bibliography and extensive commentary.
Winner of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists Publication Prize 2013 for "Best Edition of an Anglo-Saxon (or Anglo-Latin) Text, Any Medium."