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How tradition works : a meme-based cultural poetics of the Anglo-Saxon tenth century
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How tradition works : a meme-based cultural poetics of the Anglo-Saxon tenth century / Michael D.C. Drout.
ISBN
0866983503
Published
Tempe, Ariz. : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006.
Physical Description
xvii, 333 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 09, 2006
Series
Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies ; v. 306
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-317) and index.
Contents
How tradition works
Why memetics?
The English Benedictine reform : a concise summary
The rule of St. Benedict, the Regularis concordia, and the memetic basis of reform culture
Anglo-Saxon wills and the inheritance of tradition
Repetition, pattern recognition, tradition, and style
The interplay of traditions : style and the Old English translation of the enlarged rule of Chrodegang
The Exeter Book wisdom poems and the Benedictine reform
The vocabulary of the wisdom poems and the Chrodegang translation.
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