Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Material Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture uncovers the voice and agency possessed by nonhuman things across Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture. It makes a new contribution to ‘thing theory’ and rethinks conventional divisions between animate human subjects and inanimate nonhuman objects in the early Middle Ages.Anglo-Saxon writers and craftsmen describe artefacts and animals through riddling forms or enigmatic language, balancing an attempt to speak and listen to things with an understanding that these nonhumans often elude, defy and withdraw from us. But the active role that things have in the early medieval world is also linked to the Germanic origins of the word, where a þing is a kind of assembly, with the ability to draw together other elements, creating assemblages in which human and nonhuman forces combine.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-06-13
Mått138 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt467 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieManchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Antal sidor248
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526101105

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Introduction: on Anglo-Saxon things1 Æschere’s head, Grendel’s mother and the sword that isn’t a sword: unreadable things in Beowulf2 The ‘thingness’ of time in the Old English riddles of the Exeter Book and Aldhelm’s Latin enigmata3 The riddles of the Franks Casket: enigmas, agency and assemblage4 Assembling and reshaping Christianity in the Lives of St Cuthbert and Lindisfarne Gospels5 The Dream of the Rood and the Ruthwell monument: fragility, brokenness and failureAfterword: old things with new things to sayIndex