The Home of the Addressees of the Heliand
Author: Ernst Christian Paul Metzenthin
Publisher:
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13:
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The Heliand
Author: G. Ronald Murphy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780195073768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA spirited retelling of the Gospel story in a Germanic setting, the ninth-century A.D. Old Saxon epic poem The Heliand is at last available in English in Ronald Murphy's graceful new translation. Representing the first full integration and poetic reworking of the Gospel story into Northern European warrior imagery and culture, the poem finds a place for many Old Northern religious concepts and images while remaining faithful to the orthodox Christian teaching of the Gospel of St. Mark. Accessible to students of medieval and comparative literature, Murphy's introduction and notes provide valuable insight and a cultural context for this unique masterpiece.
The Heliand Manuscript, Cotton Caligula A. VII, in the British Museum
Author: Robert Priebsch
Publisher:
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Saxon Savior
Author: G. Ronald Murphy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780195097207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study is an interpretation and appreciation of the art of the Heliand, the 9th-century Saxon epic poem in which the Christian Gospel of the four evangelists is reexpressed in Germanic terms. Murphy examines in detail the ingenious and sensitive poetic analogies through which familiar texts - the Nativity, the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes and the Lord's Prayer, the Passion and Resurrection - are transformed into Germanic settings and concepts. The first book in English on the Heliand, this study offers a new socio-political explanation of the possible motives of the unknown Heliand author in undertaking this enormous and brilliantly realized poetic task.
Perspectives on the Old Saxon Heliand
Author: Valentine A. Pakis
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781933202495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHeliand, the Old Saxon poem based on the life of Christ in the Gospels, is now readily available to students of Anglo-Saxon culture, history, linguistics, literature, and religion. In Perspectives on the Old Saxon Heliand, Valentine Pakis brings together recent scholarship to address new turns in the field and engage with relevant academic arguments of the past three decades. Furthering the ongoing critical discussion of both text and culture, this volume reflects the current state of medieval studies while demonstrating its evolution since the 1970s. --Book Jacket.
An Annotated English Translation of the Old Saxon Heliand
Author:
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780773414822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotated English Translation of the Old Saxon Heliand : A Ninth-Century Biblical Paraphrase in the Germanic Epic Style
Converting the Saxons
Author: Joshua M. Cragle
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-10-06
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1000969215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUtilizing a “crusading ethos,” from 772 to 804 AD, Charlemagne, King of the Franks, waged war against the continental Saxons to integrate them within the growing Frankish Empire and facilitate their conversion to Christianity. While substantial research has been produced concerning various components of Carolingian history, this work offers a unique examination of Charlemagne’s Saxon Wars as a case study for understanding methods of conversion used in the Christianization of Europe, as well as their significance for subsequent conversion strategies employed around the globe. Converting the Saxons builds on prior scholarly research, is grounded in primary sources, and is contextualized with a robust historical introduction. Throughout the text, particular emphasis is given to Christian encounters with paganism and the way paganism was interpreted, confronted, and transformed. Within those encounters, we observe myriad forces of coercion and incentivization used in societal religious conversion, demonstrating the need for a serious reconsideration of the standard narratives surrounding Christian missions. This book provides a scholarly and accessible resource for students and researchers interested in transhistorical methods of conversion, the history of Christianity, Early Medieval paganism, Colonial religious encounters, and the nature of religious conversion.
Hêliand
Author: James E. Cathey
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work presents the reader with explanatory commentary that encompasses both the scientific and the poetic and treats them both with equal felicity.
From Judgment to Passion
Author: Rachel Fulton
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 9780231125505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow and why did the images of the crucified Christ and his grieving mother achieve such prominence, inspiring unparalleled religious creativity as well such imitative extremes as celibacy and self-flagellation? To answer this question, Fulton ranges over developments in liturgical performance, private prayer, doctrine, and art.
The Meters of Old Norse Eddic Poetry
Author: Seiichi Suzuki
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-12-12
Total Pages: 1142
ISBN-13: 3110336774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a formal and functional study of the three distinct meters of Old Norse eddic poetry, fornyrðislag, málaháttr, and ljóðaháttr. It provides a systematic account of these archaic meters, both synchronic and diachronic, and from a comparative Germanic perspective; particularly concerned with Norse innovations in metrical practice, Suzuki explores how and why the three meters were shaped in West Scandinavia through divergent reorganization of the Common Germanic metrical system. The book constitutes the first comprehensive work on the meters of Old Norse eddic poetry in a single coherent framework; with thorough data presentation, detailed philological analysis, and sophisticated linguistic explanation, the book will be of enormous interest to Old Germanic philologists/linguists, medievalists, as well as metrists of all persuasions. A strong methodological advantage of this work is the extensive use of inferential statistical techniques for giving empirical support to specific analyses and claims being adduced. Another strength is a cognitive dimension, a (re)construction of a prototype-based model of the metrical system and its overall characterization as an integral part of the poetic knowledge that governed eddic poets' verse-making technique in general.
