The Psalms and Medieval English Literature

From the Conversion to the Reformation
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-84384-435-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 157 mm, Gewicht: 885 g

An examination of how The Book of Psalms shaped medieval thought and helped develop the medieval English literary canon.

The Book of Psalms had a profound impact on English literature from the Anglo-Saxon to the late medieval period. This collection examines the various ways in which they shaped medieval English thought and contributed to the emergence of an English literary canon. It brings into dialogue experts on both Old and Middle English literature, thus breaking down the traditional disciplinary binaries of both pre- and post-Conquest English and late medieval and Early Modern, as well as emphasizing the complex and fascinating relationship between Latin and the vernacular languages of England. Its three main themes, translation, adaptation and voice, enable a rich variety of perspectives on the Psalms and medieval English literature to emerge.

TAMARA ATKIN is Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature at Queen Mary University of London; FRANCIS LENEGHAN is Associate Professor of OldEnglish at The University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford

Contributors: Daniel Anlezark, Mark Faulkner, Vincent Gillespie, Michael P. Kuczynski, David Lawton, Francis Leneghan, Jane Roberts, Mike Rodman Jones, Elizabeth Solopova, Lynn Staley, Annie Sutherland, Jane Toswell, Katherine Zieman.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Atkin, Tamara

Leneghan, Francis

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sutherland, Annie

Anlezark, Daniel

Lawton, David

Solopova, Elizabeth

Leneghan, Francis

Roberts, Jane

Zieman, Katherine

Staley, Lynn

Toswell, M. J.

Faulkner, Mark

Kuczynski, Michael

Rodman Jones, Mike

Gillespie, Vincent

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: a Case Study of Psalm 50.1-3 in Old and Middle English - Francis Leneghan
Some Anglo-Saxon Psalters and their Glosses - Jane Roberts
The Eadwine Psalter and Twelfth-Century English Vernacular Literary Culture - Mark Faulkner
'In eching for the beste': the Fourteenth-Century English Prose Psalter and the Art of Psalm Translation - Annie Sutherland
The Wycliffite Psalms - Elizabeth Solopova
Rolle's English Psalter and the Possibilities of Vernacular Scriptural Commentary - Katherine Zieman
Making the Psalter Sing: the Old English Metrical Psalms, Rhythm and Ruminatio - Francis Leneghan
The Psalms in the Old English Office of Prime - Daniel Anlezark
Psalm Genres in Old English Poetry - M J Toswell
Articulating the Psalms in Middle English Alliterative Poetry:Some Passages of Piers Plowman, St Erkenwald and Pearl - Mike Rodman Jones
Maidstone's Psalms and the King's Speech - Lynn Staley
The Songs of the Threshold: Enargeia and the Psalter - Vincent Gillespie
Psalms as Public Interiorities: Eleanor Hull's Voices - David Lawton
Vox ecclesiae, vox Christi: the Psalms and Medieval English Ecclesiology - Michael Kuczynski

Über Autor(innen)

Rodman Jones, Mike
MIKE RODMAN JONES is Associate Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Literature in the School of English, University of Nottingham.

Sutherland, Annie
ANNIE SUTHERLAND is Associate Professor, University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow in Old and Middle English, Somerville College.

Leneghan, Francis
FRANCIS LENEGHAN is Associate Professorof Old English at The University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Cross College.

Toswell, M. J.
M.J. TOSWELL is a Professor at theUniversity of Western Ontario.

Leneghan, Francis
FRANCIS LENEGHAN is Associate Professorof Old English at The University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Cross College.