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The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium)

The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium)

Karasawa, Kazutomo

Paperback

Series: Anglo-Saxon Texts, Book 12

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1843845997
ISBN13: 9781843845997
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: May 21 2021
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 1.30
Language: English
First modern text and English translation of an important Anglo-Saxon poem dealing with the liturgical year.

WINNER of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists 2017 Publication Prize: Best Edition

The late tenth-century Old English Metrical Calendar (traditionally known as Menologium) summarises, in the characteristicheroic diction and traditional metre of Old English poetry, the major course of the Anglo-Saxon liturgical year. It sets out, in a methodical structure based on the basic temporal framework of the solar/natural year, the locations of the major feasts widely observed in late Anglo-Saxon England. Such a work could have been a practical timepiece for reading the dates of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, for which it serves as a kind of prologue in the manuscript.The clearly domestic perspective of the poem, which fits in the manuscript context, is also noteworthy, while the poem also reveals various interesting characteristics in its grammar, vocabulary and prosody.

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