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Law --- Anglo-Saxon --- Medieval

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"The five authoritive papers presented here are the product of long careers of research into Anglo-Saxon culture. In detail the subject areas and approaches are very different, yet all are cross-disciplinary and the same texts and artefacts weave through several of them. Literary text is used to interpret both history and art; ecclesiastical-historical circumstances explain the adaptation of usage of a literary text; wealth and religious learning, combined with old and foreign artistic motifs are blended into the making of new books with multiple functions; religio-socio-economic circumstances are the background to changes in burial ritual. The common element is transformation, the Anglo-Saxon ability to rework older material for new times and the necessary adaptation to new circumstances. The papers originated as five recent Toller Memorial Lectures hosted by the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (MANCASS)"--Publisher description.

Anglo-Saxons --- Art, Anglo-Saxon. --- Anglo-Saxon art --- Saxons --- Social life and customs. --- Antiquities. --- England --- Great Britain --- Civilization --- History

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Cet ensemble de vingt-trois articles se propose de cerner la notion d'espace littéraire en examinant tour à tour des œuvres théâtrales (Shakespeare), romanesques (de Jane Austen à Vladimir Nabokov), poétiques (du romantisme à Ted Hughes), à l'aide d'approches critiques complémentaires et l'on notera que la diversité du corpus n'entame en rien l'unité et la cohérence de la recherche. Outre certains noms inévitables pour un pareil sujet (G. Bachelard, M. Blanchot), la narratologie, la poétique et la stylistique fournissent les outils et les concepts les plus constamment employés. Si le romancier met en jeu des notions spatiales entendues en un sens métaphorique (frontières, distances, horizons, paysages, sites, chemins, demeures), le poète, lui, est surtout un «prospecteur solitaire dans les galeries de mots» et il construit un espace fibré parcouru par la simple impulsion des mots vécus. Dans un souci de pluridisciplinarité, on a cru bon d'aborder, documentation iconographique à l'appui, la rhétorique de l'espace dans les arts plastiques: si les artistes empruntent à l'espace des géomètres un peu de son assiette et de son aplomb, on voit aussi qu'ils se plaisent, surtout à l'époque baroque ou dans la peinture américaine contemporaine, à égarer les repères, brouiller les frontières, affirmer le caractère fragmenté, dissocié de la réalité. Enfin l'espace-temps de la musique permet de reprendre par un biais inédit un certain nombre des problèmes posés tout au long de ce volume: métaphore et sémantique du discours, métaphore et référence, espace de la figure.

Literature, British Isles --- Cultural studies --- théâtre --- culture --- musique --- littérature --- anglo-saxon

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Angelsächsische Handschriften / Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts --- Altenglische Glossographie / Old English Glossography --- Griffelglossen / Dry-Point Glosse

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"In Moses the Egyptian, Herbert Broderick analyzes the iconography of Moses in the famous illuminated eleventh-century manuscript known as the Illustrated Old English Hexateuch. A translation into Old English of the first six books of the Bible, the manuscript contains over 390 images, of which 127 depict Moses with a variety of distinctive visual attributes. Broderick presents a compelling thesis that these motifs, in particular the image of the horned Moses, have a Hellenistic Egyptian origin. He argues that the visual construct of Moses in the Old English Hexateuch may have been based on a Late Antique, no longer extant, prototype influenced by works of Hellenistic Egyptian Jewish exegetes, who ascribed to Moses the characteristics of an Egyptian-Hellenistic king, military commander, priest, prophet, and scribe. These Jewish writings were utilized in turn by early Christian apologists such as Clement of Alexandria and Eusebius of Caesarea. Broderick's analysis of this Moses imagery ranges widely across religious divides, art-historical religious themes, and classical and early Jewish and Christian sources. Herbert Broderick is one of the foremost historians in the field of Anglo-Saxon art, with a primary focus on Old Testament iconography. Readers with interests in the history of medieval manuscript illustration, art history, and early Jewish and Christian apologetics will find much of interest in this profusely illustrated study"--

Art, Egyptian --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon --- Christian art and symbolism --- Influence. --- Themes, motives. --- Moses --- British Library.