LEADER 03341cam a2200481 i 4500001 99130336019606421 005 20240725052707.0 008 230922t20232023enk b 000 0 eng d 020 0199692106 |qhardcover 020 9780199692101 |qhardcover 035 (OCoLC)on1398464510 040 YDX |beng |erda |cYDX |dYDX 041 1 engang |hang 043 e-uk--- 050 4 PR1508 |b.A44 2023 082 04 829.8008 |223 245 00 Alfredian prologues and epilogues / |cedited by Susan Irvine. 264 1 Oxford, United Kingdom ;New York, NY : |bOxford University Press, |c[2023] 264 4 |c©2023 300 x, 296 pages ; |c23 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references. 546 Includes text in Old English with modern English translations, critical text in modern English. 520 "Prologues (or prefaces) and epilogues have featured in English literary culture from its very beginnings. A tradition of framing works written in English with these introductory and concluding pieces was established in the ninth century and continued to develop through the early medieval period and beyond. Amongst the surviving examples in Old English are the mid-ninth-century Codex Aureus Inscription, the prologues and epilogues written to accompany the works associated with the reign of Alfred the Great (871-99), two prefatory poems known as Aldhelm (composed in English, Latin and Greek) and Thureth, probably from the tenth and eleventh centuries respectively, and the prose prefaces to sets of homilies, saints' lives and other writings by the prolific late-tenth- and early-eleventh-century writer Ælfric. The focus of this book is on the prologues, epilogues, and other frame texts linked to works associated with Alfred's reign, which are edited here as a group for the first time. Highly varied, enigmatic, and not always reliable in the claims they make, these pieces offer intriguing glimpses not only into the authorship and circumstances of composition, translation, or transmission of the works written in or around Alfred's reign, but also more generally into the relationship between writer and reader in Anglo-Saxon England"-- |cProvided by publisher. 600 00 Alfred, |cKing of England, |d849-899. 600 07 Alfred, |cKing of England, |d849-899 |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00055879 650 0 English language |yOld English, ca. 450-1100 |vTexts. 650 0 Prologues and epilogues. 651 0 Great Britain |xHistory |yAnglo-Saxon period, 449-1066. 651 6 Grande-Bretagne |xHistoire |y449-1066 (Période anglo-saxonne) |0(CaQQLa)201-0023381 650 7 English language |xOld English |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01710958 651 7 Great Britain |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204623 648 7 449-1100 |2fast 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 History |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 Texts |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01423705 700 1 Irvine, Susan |q(Susan Elizabeth), |eeditor. 910 |cC0402mon |d3110-07 |gYBP |h44308 914 (OCoLC)on1398464510 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240717 |eprocessed |f1398464510 980 20498113 |f44308 |i170.00 |j139.40 |n40032235346 982 |cf |q32101119553004