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Köhler, Ulrike Kristina. "Harry Potter – National Hero and National Heroic Epic." International Research in Children's Literature 4, no. 1 (July 2011): 15–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2011.0004.

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Joanne K. Rowling's teenage wizard has enchanted readers all over the globe and Harry Potter can truly be called an international hero. However, as I will argue, he is also very much an English national hero, complying with the national auto-image of the English gentleman as well as with the idea of Christian masculinity, another English auto-image holding that outdoor activity is more character-building than book learning. I will also show that the series can be read as a national heroic epic in two respects. First, Harry Potter, alias Robin Hood, has to fight the Norman yoke, an English myth haunting the nation since the Norman invasion in 1066. The series displays as a national model an apparently paternalistic Anglo-Saxon feudal society marked by tolerance and liberty as opposed to foreign rule. Second, by establishing parallels to events which took place in Nazi Germany, the series takes up the idea of fighting it, which is a popular topos in British (children's) literature which serves to reinforce a positive self-image.
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Scheinberg, Cynthia. "INTRODUCTION: RE-MAPPING ANGLO-JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY." Victorian Literature and Culture 27, no. 1 (March 1999): 115–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150399271069.

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[I]t is not enough to make the Jew respected, but to have JUDAISM rightly reverenced; and to do this, there must be a JEWISH LITERATURE, or the Jewish people will not advance one step. — Grace Aguilar, The Jewish Faith (1846)THE ESSAYS COLLECTED in this issue of Victorian Literature and Culture seek to introduce Victorianists to some of the many Anglo-Jewish writers of nineteenth-century England. What differentiates this moment in Anglo-Jewish scholarship from most previous considerations is that we do not purport to fill a falsely constructed “void” of Anglo-Jewish literary silence; on the contrary, this collection seeks to amplify the fullness of nineteenth century Anglo-Jewish literary life. In 1846, Grace Aguilar, the important Anglo-Jewish writer and theologian, called out for the production of a “Jewish literature” that would aid the “right reverence[e] of Judaism,” and “advance” the Jewish people in Victorian England. All too aware of the way exclusion from Hebrew literary and religious texts often precipitated assimilation, conversion, and more generalized alienation from Jewish religious life, Aguilar sought new tools to combat Jewish religious apathy. Detailing the subtle conversionary and theological assumptions that so-called secular — yet clearly Christian — literature often performed, Aguilar reasoned that a Jewish literature could provide Jewish readers — and especially Jewish women — with literary pleasure and a simultaneous sense of Jewish values and ethics; likewise, such a literature could recast the generally negative images of Jewish people and Judaism which pervade the long history of English literature.1 With her emphasis on a Jewish literature, then, Aguilar sought to claim the cultural and ideological power literature held in Victorian England for specifically Jewish uses. Significantly, Aguilar’s tone in the statement above suggests that she saw no such Jewish literature in past moments of Anglo-Jewish history; Aguilar’s intensive production of such a literature in a variety of genres was her own response to this desire for Jewish literature.
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Cesario, Marilina. "Ant-lore in Anglo-Saxon England." Anglo-Saxon England 40 (December 2011): 273–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263675111000123.

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AbstractTwo Old English versions of a sunshine prognostication survive in the mid-eleventh century Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 391, p. 713, and in a twelfth-century addition to Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 115, 149v–150r. Among standard predictions promising joy, peace, blossom, abundance of milk and fruit, and a great baptism sent by God, one encounters an enigmatic prophecy which involves camels stealing gold from the ants. These gold-digging ants have a long pedigree, one which links Old English with much earlier literature and indicates the extent to which Anglo-Saxon culture had assimilated traditions of European learning. It remains difficult to say what is being prophesied, however, or to explain the presence of the passage among conventional predictions. Whether the prediction was merely a literary exercise or carried a symbolic implication, it must have originated in an ecclesiastical context. Its mixture of classical learning and vernacular tradition, Greek and Latin, folklore and Christian, implies an author with some knowledge of literary and scholarly traditions.
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Olesiejko, Jacek. "The Tension between Heroic Masculinity and the Christian Self in the Old English Andreas." Anglica Wratislaviensia 56 (November 22, 2018): 87–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0301-7966.56.7.

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The article’s aim is to elucidate the religious transformations of the secular notions of identity and masculinity in Andreas. Andreas is a religious poem composed in Anglo-Saxon England around the ninth century. It is an adaptation of the Latin recension of the Acts of the Apostle Andrew, but the poet uses heroic diction borrowed from Old English secular poetry to rework the metaphor of miles Christi that is ubiquitous in Christian literature. The poet uses the military metaphor to inculcate the Christian notion of masculinity as the inversion of the secular perception of manliness. He draws upon a paradox, attested in the early Christian writings, that spiritual masculinity is true manliness, superior to military masculinity, and that it is expressed through patient suffering and the acknowledgment of defeat. The poem inverts the notions of war and victory to depict the physical defeat of the martyr as a spiritual victory over sin and the devil.
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González Abascal, Pedro. "El deseo de fama en la épica anglosajona y las vidas de santos ingleses de Aelfric." Estudios Humanísticos. Filología, no. 16 (December 1, 1994): 155. http://dx.doi.org/10.18002/ehf.v0i16.4227.

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<p>El deseo de fama como rasgo caracterizador de los héroes de los poemas épicos en inglés antiguo, pertenece asimismo a la tipología de los santos ingleses de AElfric: San Swituno, San Edmundo, San Oswaldo, San Albano y Santa AEtheldreda. Para San Agustín, cuyas obras son fuente de inspiración para ambos géneros de la literatura anglosajona, el deseo de fama de los héroes evita vicios más nocivos en cuanto estimula a imitar a quienes realizan hechos en beneficio de la nación. La difusión de la fama de los santos igualmente propone un modelo, no sólo de virtud cristiana sino también de héroe germánico-cristiano al servicio de su gente.</p><p>The desire of fame as a characterization trait of the heroes of the epic poems in Old English, also belongs to the typology of AElfric's English saints: St Swithun, St Edmund, St Oswald, St Alban and St AEthelthryth. To St Augustine, whose works are a source of inspiration to both genres of the Anglo-Saxon literature, the heroes' desire of fame prevents from other more harmful vices inasmuch as it encourages to imitate those who carry out deeds for the benefit of the nation. The spread of the saints' fame likewise proposes a model, not only of Christian virtue but also of a Germanic Christian hero in the service of his people.</p>
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Calkin, Siobhain Bly. "The Anxieties of Encounter and Exchange: Saracens and Christian Heroism in Sir Beves of Hamtoun." Florilegium 21, no. 1 (January 2004): 135–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/flor.21.011.

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As Edward Said, Norman Daniel, and Dorothee Metlitzki have pointed out, the purportedly Muslim figures who appear in medieval western literature usually bear little or no resemblance to historical Muslims of the period. Said states, "we need not look for correspondence between the language used to depict the Orient and the Orient itself, not so much because the language is inaccurate but because it is not even trying to be accurate" (71). Similarly, Daniel and Metlitzki identify repeated stereotypical misrepresentations of Islam in medieval literary texts, such as the depiction of Islam as a polytheistic religion or the depiction of alcohol-drinking Muslims (Daniel 3-4, 49-51, 72-73, 81, 133-54; Metlitzki 209-10). It is certainly true that there is little or no mimetic relationship between literary Saracens and historical Muslims, but it should be noted that literary Saracens, despite their inaccuracies, did connote for the West an extremely powerful, technologically advanced Muslim civilization, which both impressed medieval Christians with its scientific knowledge and immense wealth, and menaced them militarily with its many victories over crusaders and its capacity for territorial expansion. Thus, while the Saracens of western literature may not offer us a historically accurate vision of medieval Islam, they can occasionally offer us some insight into the anxieties historical Islam posed for the West. This essay examines moments in the fourteenth-century Middle English romance Sir Beves of Hamtoun when the text’s depiction of one knight’s assimilation into a Saracen world communicates historical anxieties about how life in a Saracen enclave might compromise the Christian heroism of an English knight. The essay argues that Beves of Hamtoun both conveys a fear of Christian assimilation into a non-Christian world, and defines a model of heroic action to counteract such assimilation and re-establish the borders between Christianity and Saracenness. However, the text also indicates the ways in which heroic efforts to reconstruct such borders might ultimately fail.
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Шарма Сушіл Кумар. "Why Desist Hyphenated Identities? Reading Syed Amanuddin's Don't Call Me Indo-Anglian." East European Journal of Psycholinguistics 5, no. 2 (December 28, 2018): 92–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.29038/eejpl.2018.5.2.sha.

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The paper analyses Syed Amanuddin’s “Don’t Call Me Indo-Anglian” from the perspective of a cultural materialist. In an effort to understand Amanuddin’s contempt for the term, the matrix of identity, language and cultural ideology has been explored. The politics of the representation of the self and the other that creates a chasm among human beings has also been discussed. The impact of the British colonialism on the language and psyche of people has been taken into account. This is best visible in the seemingly innocent introduction of English in India as medium of instruction which has subsequently brought in a new kind of sensibility and culture unknown hitherto in India. Indians experienced them in the form of snobbery, racism, highbrow and religious bigotry. P C Ray and M K Gandhi resisted the introduction of English as the medium of instruction. 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In Problematizing Language Studies, Cultural, Theoretical and Applied Perspectives: Essays in Honour of Rama Kant Agnihotri. (pp. 83-116.) S. I. Hasnain and S. Chaudhary (eds). Delhi: Akar Books. Retrieved from: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00549309/document Naik, M K. (1973). Indian Poetry in English. Indian Literature. 16(3/4) 157-164. Retrieved from: www.jstor.org/stable/24157227 Pai, S. (2018). Indo-Anglians: The newest and fastest-growing caste in India. Retrieved from: https://scroll.in/magazine/867130/indo-anglians-the-newest-and-fastest-growing-caste-in-india Pearson, M. N. (1987). The Portuguese in India. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. Rai, S. (2012). India’s New ‘English Only’ Generation. Retrieved from: https://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/indias-new-english-only-generation/ Ray, P. C. (1932). Life and Experiences of a Bengali Chemist. Calcutta: Chuckervertty, Chatterjee & London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. 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Stanley, E. G. "CHRISTIAN HEIMERL (ed.), The Middle English Version of William of Saliceto's Anatomia A Critical Edition Based on Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.14.41, with a Parallel Text of The Medieval Latin Anatomia Edited from Leipzig, Universitatsbibliothek, MS 1177, Middle English Texts, 39. * DAVID SCOTT-MACNAB (ed.), The Middle English Text of The Art of Hunting by William Twiti Edited from an Uncatalogued Manuscript in a Private Collection, Ashton-under-Lyne, with a Parallel Text of The Anglo-Norman L'Art de Venerie by William Twiti Edited from Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College MS 424/448, Middle English Texts, 39." Notes and Queries 56, no. 4 (November 27, 2009): 641–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjp175.

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McCash, June Hall, and Susan Crane. "Insular Romance: Politics, Faith, and Culture in Anglo-Norman and Middle English Literature." Comparative Literature 42, no. 4 (1990): 363. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1770709.

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Abdel-Daem, Mohamed Kamel. "Postcolonial Elements in Early English Poetry." Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 17, no. 1 (April 2014): 25–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5782/2223-2621.2014.17.1.25.

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In this article, the writer highlights certain elements in Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman verse, that can unsurprisingly be a precursor of postcolonial writing. These marks are: heroic spirit, religious devotion, chivalric pride and elegiac vein. All these topics were nothing but aids to the early English poets' attempt to coin a unified English identity. This study manifestly assumes that nineteenth and twentieth century, imperial England had once been a colonized nation that produced postcolonial culture and literature. This article proposes that postcolonialism is not restricted just to modern times; postcolonial literature often emerged where conflicts occurred. The study also hints at the impact of postcolonial elements( race, religion, language) on English poetry.
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O'Donnell, Thomas Joseph. "Monastic literary culture and communities in England, 1066-1250." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1905660951&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Church, Alan P. "Scribal rhetoric in Anglo-Saxon England /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9320.

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Eakin, Sarah E. "The Synthesis of Anglo-Saxon and Christian Traditions in the Old English JUDITH." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1386941516.

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Brooks, Britton. "The restoration of Creation in the early Anglo-Saxon vitae of Cuthbert and Guthlac." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:17b5d20e-446e-4891-90a6-f02a196a7409.

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This thesis explores the relationship between Creation and the saints Cuthbert and Guthlac in their Anglo-Latin and Old English vitae. It argues that this relationship is best understood through received theological exegesis concerning Creation's present state in the postlapsarian world. The exegesis has its foundation in Augustine's interpretations of the Genesis narrative, though it enters the textual tradition of the vitae via an adapted portion of De Genesi contra Manichaeos in Bede's metrical Vita Sancti Cuthberti (VCM). Both Augustine and Bede argue, with slight differences, that fallen Creation can be restored into prelapsarian harmony with humanity by way of sanctity. Each individual vita engages with this understanding of the Fall in distinct, though ultimately interrelated, ways, and the chapters of this thesis will therefore explore each text individually. Chapter 1 argues that the anonymous Vita Sancti Cuthberti (VCA) unites Cuthbert's ability to restore Creation with the theme of monastic obedience, linking the ordering of a monastery to the restoration of prelapsarian harmony. The VCA also seeks to create sites for potential lay pilgrimage in the landscapes of Farne and Lindisfarne by highlighting the present efficacy of Cuthbert's miracles. Chapter 2 argues that Bede's VCM not only reveals his early attempt to fashion Cuthbert into the primary saint for Britain, via a focus on Cuthbert's obedience to the Divine Office, but also that the restoration of Creation functions as a ruminative tool. Chapter 3 argues that Bede transforms the nature of Cuthbert's sanctity in his prose Vita Sancti Cuthberti (VCP) from static to developmental, influenced by the Evagrian Vita Antonii, and that Creation is adapted to function as the impetus for, and evidence of, Cuthbert's progression. Chapter 4 argues that Felix's Vita Sancti Guthlaci (VSG) unites the development of Guthlac with a physically delineated Creation, and that the restoration of Creation is elevated to an even greater degree here than in Bede's hagiography. Chapter 5 argues that the author of the Old English Prose Guthlac (OEPG) grounds his vita by utilizing a landscape lexis shared with contemporary boundary clauses, so that here the relationship between the saint and Creation has greater force; it further argues that Guthlac A uniquely connects Guthlac with the doctrine of replacement, consolidating links between his arrival to the eremitic space and the restoration of prelapsarian Eden.
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Adams, Sarah Joy. "Wonder, derision and fear the uses of doubt in Anglo-Saxon saints' lives /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1185822398.

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Unruh, Dwane F. "A comparison between the Anglo-Norman Gui de Warewic and the Middle English version contained in Caius College, Cambridge, MS. 107." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4569.

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Sargan, J. D. "Creative reading : using books in the vernacular context of Anglo-Norman England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:35c6b458-d753-4491-b360-c29b76615992.

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This thesis responds to a lack of information regarding reading practice in literature in early Middle English. Here, reading is often used as a metaphorical or symbolic act - representing piety, devotional practice, or intellectualism - but how reading took place, how users engaged with books, is rarely figured. Other seams of evidence are therefore needed to access the reading process. The corpus of manuscripts on which I focus consists of thirty-three multilingual books containing English, Latin, and French produced in England between 1066 and c. 1300. Using this corpus, and inspired by the work of Leah Price, Juliet Fleming, Kathryn Rudy, and others, I seek to test the boundaries of what has previously been considered permissible evidence for reading, thereby adjusting and expanding current conceptions of the range of activities and practices high medieval book use entailed. The thesis begins with a case study of some important readers: scribes. In chapter one, using the seven surviving copies of Poema Morale as a corpus I read against current critical considerations of variance in manuscript transmission as a sign of 'scribal authorship' in order to establish practices of scribal reading. Chapters two and three go on to demonstrate how these 'scribal readers' prefigured a work's use as they copied, particularly when they chose to introduce or exclude textual apparatus in the form of titles, capitals, or paraph marks. The final part of the thesis examines the retrospective evidence of use left by readers who marked and altered their books to determine the extent to which readers conformed to the practices imagined by manuscript producers. As a whole, then, the thesis showcases the variegated nature of reading practice - from critical analysis to nugatory scanning - and the alternative uses for books in English in this period. It shows that vernacular reading was a work of 'embodied intellectual labour' that benefitted from the material form of the book, and that engagement and manipulation of this form was not just tolerated, but expected, and perhaps actively encouraged.
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Reeve, Daniel James. "Romance and the literature of religious instruction, c.1170-c.1330." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:00ff0d43-6ace-49e2-a80f-cf5b6c9553fc.

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This thesis investigates the relations between romance and texts of religious instruction in England between c.1170–c.1330, taking as its principal textual corpus the exceptionally rich literary traditions of insular French romance and religious writing that subsist during this period. It argues that romance is a mode which engages closely with religious and ethical questions from a very early stage, and demonstrates the discourses of opposition in which both kinds of text participate throughout the period. The thesis offers substantial readings of a number of neglected insular French religious texts of the thirteenth century, including Robert Grosseteste's Chasteau d'Amour, John of Howden's Rossignos, and Robert of Gretham's Miroir, alongside new readings of romances such as Gui de Warewic and Ipomedon. This juxtaposition of romance narrative and religious instruction sheds new light onto both kinds of text: romance emerges as a mode with deep-rooted didactic qualities; insular French religious literature is shown to be intensely concerned with the need to compete with romance’s entertaining appeal in literary culture. This oppositional discourse profoundly affects the form of instructional writing and romance alike. The discussion of the interactions between insular French romance and instructional literature presented here also serves as a new pre-history of Middle English romance. The final chapter of the thesis offers several new readings of texts from the Auchinleck manuscript, including the canonical romance Sir Orfeo and the neglected, puzzling Speculum Gy de Warewyk. These readings demonstrate that fourteenthcentury romance intelligently adapts the material it inherits from Francophone literature to a new cultural situation. In these acts of reformation, Middle English romance reveals itself as a discursive space capable of accommodating a wide range of ethical and ideological affiliations; the complex negotiations between romance and instructional literature in the preceding centuries are an important cultural condition for this widening of possibilities.
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Dolmans, Emily. "Regional identities and cultural contact in the literatures of post-conquest England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1a791675-9c4e-422b-ba8e-34d3d2eda0e9.

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This thesis explores the geographic complexity of English identity in the High Middle Ages by examining texts that reflect moments and spaces of cultural contact. While interaction with a cultural Other is often thought to reinforce national identity, I challenge this notion, positing instead that, in the texts analysed here, cultural meetings prompt the formation or consolidation of regional identities. These identities are often simultaneously local and cross-cultural, inclusive but based in community ties and a shared sense of place. Each of the four chapters examines a different kind of regional identity and its relation to Englishness through romances and historiographical texts in Anglo-Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English. Discussion primarily focuses on the Gesta Herwardi, Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis, Fouke le Fitz Waryn, Gui de Warewic, Boeve de Haumtone, Le roman de toute chevalerie, and Richard Coer de Lyon. Each of these texts negotiates English identity in relation to a cultural Other, and balances various aspects of cultural identity and scales of geographic affiliation. While some focus exclusively on a particular locality, others create inclusive regional identities, draw together the foreign and the familiar, or depict England as a region on the edge of an interconnected world. These texts show that Englishness can carry different meanings, nuances, and identitary strategies that depend on context, location, or ideology. Together, they forge an image of England that is diverse and multinucleated. Its borders become spaces of meeting, connection, and cultural overlap, as well as division. These works establish a strong English identity while articulating England's necessary relationship with other places, spaces, and peoples, challenging not the borders of England, but the borders of Englishness.
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Robertson, Abigail G. "The Mechanics of Courtly and the Mechanization of Woman in Medieval Anglo-Norman Romance." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1415804460.

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Books on the topic "English literature English literature Anglo-Norman literature Christian literature"

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Paradise, death, and doomsday in Anglo-Saxon literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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A history of Anglo-Latin literature, 1066-1422. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

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Marx, C. William. The Devil's rights and the redemption in the literature of Medieval England. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1995.

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García, A. Bravo. Héroes y santos en la literatura anglosajona. [Asturias]: Universidad de Oviedo, Servicio de Publicaciones, 1994.

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Images of faith in English literature, 700-1550: An introduction. London: Longman, 1997.

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Religion and literature in western England, 600-800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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Bately, Janet. Anonymous Old English homilies: A preliminary bibliography of source studies : compiled for Fontes Anglo-Saxonici and Sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture. Binghamton: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1993.

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Bately, Janet M. Anonymous Old English homilies: A preliminary bibliography of source studies : compiled for Fontes Anglo-Saxonici and Sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture. Binghamton: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1993.

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Tradition and belief: Religious writing in late Anglo-Saxon England. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

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Rushforth, Rebecca. An atlas of saints in Anglo-Saxon calendars. Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, 2002.

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Magennis, Hugh. "Cristes leorningcnihtas: traditions of the apostles in Old English literature." In Aspects of knowledge, 97–115. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719097843.003.0005.

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This chapter, by Hugh Magennis, considers the theme of the interpretation and application of Christian knowledge as reflected in treatments of the apostles in vernacular writings in Anglo-Saxon England. The acta of the apostles originated in the East but were transmitted and reworked by western writers, not least in pre-Conquest England. Surveying depictions of the apostles in Old English, Magennis’s chapter emphasises the definitive place that the apostles occupy within Christian systems of knowledge and understanding but also examines how traditions of the apostles are appropriated and reconceived by Anglo-Saxon writers (including the poet of Andreas, whose reworking of his source is considered in greater detail in the chapter in this volume by Richard North).
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"8. Jewish Magic And Christian Miracle In The Old English Andreas." In Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture, 167–94. University of Toronto Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442666283-014.

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North, Richard. "Meet the pagans: on the misuse of Beowulf in Andreas." In Aspects of knowledge, 185–209. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719097843.003.0009.

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Richard North’s chapter argues that the Old English verse saint’s life Andreas (on the apostle St Andrew) appropriates the secular epic poem Beowulf for mock-epic purposes, turning knowledge of Beowulf, a poem which by implication must have been famous in Anglo-Saxon England, to a new Christian purpose. Andreas is seen to offer through its mock-epic style a satirical commentary on the heathen nostalgia of Beowulf. In Andreas knowledge of secular literature and its version of the past is astutely re-appropriated for religious purposes, being absorbed into and transcended by a Christian celebration of the true heroism of the saint. This chapter adds a new dimension to the understanding of Anglo-Saxon literary history and the place of secular tradition within it.
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Crane, Susan. "Anglo-Norman cultures in England, 1066–1460." In The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, 35–60. Cambridge University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521444200.004.

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Maring, Heather. "Refiguring Hybrid Oral-Literate Signs." In Signs That Sing. University Press of Florida, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813054469.003.0005.

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This is the first of three chapters that examines poems in which oral-traditional themes play a distinctly metaphorical role. Old English oral-connected themes are a rich resource for creating and framing narrative subjects. When poets make such themes metaphorical, they are using a strategy consonant with the reading practices of medieval Christian textual communities. Chapter 4 describes how the two themes explored in previous chapters bear metaphorical meaning in The Phoenix, Exeter Riddle 47 (“Book Moth”), and the Advent Lyrics (Christ I). Being transplanted to unusual narrative contexts, they profit from literate modes of interpretation. Used allegorically and metaphorically, the devouring-the-dead theme describes the fate of the soul during the Apocalypse, in hell, and in heaven. The lord-retainer theme in the Advent Lyrics serves as a metaphor for humanity’s renewed covenant with God. These metaphorical uses of oral-connected themes constitute a rhetorical category made possible by hybrid poetics. They exemplify how Anglo-Saxon poets fused oral-traditional and literate modes of signification.
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"What happened when the Normans arrived? Anglo-Norman literature: the road to Middle English." In Beowulf and Other Stories, 499–533. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315832951-25.

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Ihnat, Kati. "Hagiographies of Mary." In Mother of Mercy, Bane of the Jews. Princeton University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691169538.003.0004.

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This chapter examines a new form of literature that emerged in twelfth-century England, the collections of Marian miracle stories, designed to prove through reasoned argument that Mary was worthy of devotion. Marian miracle collections first appeared in English monasteries in the early twelfth century, depicting the imagined rewards of entreating Mary to act on their behalf. The Marian genre was a further expression of the drive to record letters, laws, histories, and hagiographies that pervaded Anglo-Norman monastic culture. In order to understand the part the miracle story played in the development of the Marian cult, the chapter traces its inception and early development within wider literary and devotional patterns. It also considers the prayers, chants, offices, and feast days that lie at the heart of the universal miracle collections before concluding with a discussion of how the miracle stories were communicated in the liturgy.
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