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The power of words : Anglo-Saxon studies presented to Donald G. Scragg on his seventieth birthday / edited by Hugh Magennis and Jonathan Wilcox.

Title
The power of words : Anglo-Saxon studies presented to Donald G. Scragg on his seventieth birthday / edited by Hugh Magennis and Jonathan Wilcox.
Publication
Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Magennis, Hugh
  • Scragg, D. G.
  • Wilcox, Jonathan, 1960-
Description
x, 441 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Medieval European studies ; viii
Uniform Title
Medieval European studies ; 8.
Subject
  • Books > England > History > 400-1450
  • Christian literature, English (Old) > History and criticism
  • Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature
  • English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism
  • Manuscripts, Medieval > England
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Jonathan Wilcox -- Donald G. Scragg: A Tribute / Joyce Hill -- Homiletic and Religious Literature -- Aelfric and Heroic Literature / Hugh Magennis -- Reading "The Story of Joseph" in MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College / Daniel Anlezark -- Text as Image in Aelfwine's Prayerbook / Catherine E. Karkov -- Confessional Discourse in an Old English Life of St. Margaret / Jill A. Frederick -- Latin Sermons and Lay Preaching: Four Latin Sermons from Post-Reform Canterbury / Thomas N. Hall -- Who Read Gregory's Dialogues in Old English? / David F. Johnson -- The Life and Times of Old English Homilies for the First Sunday in Lent / Elaine Treharne -- Words, Texts, and Traditions.
ISBN
  • 9781933202150 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1933202157 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2006931826
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library