Two Old English Apocrypha and their Manuscript Source by J E Cross
In the course of this book Professor Cross presents the discovery of the actual manuscript source for the Old English versions of two biblical apocrypha, The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour. In collaboration with four other scholars, Professor Cross explores the implications of this discovery. Here, parallel editions of the relevant Latin and Old English texts are given, together with modern English translations, and detailed discussion outlines the background to the Latin texts, and to the manuscript which contains them. The assembled material provides an insight not simply into the transmission of two apocryphal texts, but also into the mind of the single Anglo-Saxon translator who, it is argued, struggled in his own idiosyncratic fashion to make two badly spelt and incomplete Latin originals his own.-
Anglo-Saxon Medicine
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Religion and Literature in Western England, 600-800
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Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic World
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The Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church
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Beowulf and Old Germanic Metre
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Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century
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Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature
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The 'Laterculus Malalianus' and the School of Archbishop Theodore
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Trinity and Incarnation in Anglo-Saxon Art and Thought
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Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage
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The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England
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lfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham
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Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry
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The Composition of Old English Poetry
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The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf
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The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform
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Representations of the Natural World in Old English Poetry
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The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature
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Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century
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Biblical Commentaries from the Canterbury School of Theodore and Hadrian
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Visible Song
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Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England
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The Poetic Art of Aldhelm
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Archbishop Theodore
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The Textuality of Old English Poetry
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Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England
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AElfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham
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Images of Community in Old English Poetry
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Old English Biblical Verse
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The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England
James R. Cross is a Tutor in Classical Civilisation at University College London. He completed his PhD in Classics at King's College London. His research focuses on connections between ancient medicine and literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521561945 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521561949 |
| Title | Two Old English Apocrypha and their Manuscript Source |
| Author | J E Cross |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Anglo-Saxon England |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1997-01-28 |
| Number of pages | 324 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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