02081nam a2200337 i 4500 246574 InACL 20260926163825.0 260926s2000 xxk 0 eng d 9780521623728 0521623723 InACL eng rda InACL 829 SNA 23 Swan, Mary author Rewriting Old English in the twelfth century / Mary Swan, Elaine M. Treharne Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000 213 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "This innovative collection of essays aims to redefine the limits of Old English scholarship by studying some of the latest reworking of texts composed earlier in the Anglo-Saxon period and their implications for the development of literary production across time. The essays in the volume constitute new work on a wide range of texts, including homilies, saints' lives, psalters and biblical material; some focus on individual manuscripts incorporating palaeographic and orthographic studies; others use modern critical theory to examine later Old English texts; and all highlight the need to redefine our attitude to late recopying. The volume engages with important issues, including the nature of textual transmission and recomposition and its relationship to late Old English reader-response; attitudes to earlier material as evidenced in its recopying and adaptation; and the character of survi English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Criticism, Textual. Christian literature, English (Old) -- Criticism, Textual. Transmission of texts -- England -- History -- To 1500. Scriptoria -- England -- History -- To 1500. Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature. Manuscripts, Medieval -- England. Manuscripts, English (Old) Paleography, English. Treharne, Elaine M. author 632831 632831 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL GEN 2026-09-26 0 829 SNA 246574 2026-09-26 16:38:25 2026-09-26 BK