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100	1		_aSwan, Mary _eauthor
245	1	0	_aRewriting Old English in the twelfth century / _cMary Swan, Elaine M. Treharne
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2000
300			_a213 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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
650		0	_aEnglish literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Criticism, Textual.
650		0	_aChristian literature, English (Old) -- Criticism, Textual.
650		0	_aTransmission of texts -- England -- History -- To 1500.
650		0	_aScriptoria -- England -- History -- To 1500.
650		0	_aCivilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.
650		0	_aManuscripts, Medieval -- England.
650		0	_aManuscripts, English (Old)
650		0	_aPaleography, English.
700	1		_aTreharne, Elaine M. _eauthor
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