A Companion to the Exeter Christ Poems
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
448 pages
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15 halftones
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6 1/4 x 9 1/4
The Exeter Christ is a triptych of poems on the Advent, Ascension, and Last Judgement of Christ—also known as Christ I, II, and III. This triptych is drawn from the most important extant manuscript of vernacular verse produced in the Anglo-Saxon era, The Exeter Book. This companion collects groundbreaking new scholarship on the Exeter Christ poems from experts in the field as well as seminal but previously hard-to-find articles. The volume also includes a comprehensive bibliography and a foreword by preeminent scholar of Exeter Book studies Bernard Muir.
Richard Dance, University of Cambridge
“There is a compelling case for producing volumes of key critical essays focused on particular Old English poems. . . . Since one could not contemplate such a detailed engagement with scholarship on The Exeter Book as a whole, it seems a good idea to break its contents up into ‘sets’ of poems. The Christ pieces are an ideal starting point, unified as they are both by their subject matter and the history of critical approaches to them.”
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