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Old English Ecotheology : The Exeter Book
Title
Old English Ecotheology : The Exeter Book / Courtney Catherine Barajas.
ISBN
9789048550388
Publication
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (224 pages).
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Summary
This book examines the impact of environmental crises on early medieval English theology and poetry. Like their modern counterparts, theologians at the turn of the first millennium understood the interconnectedness of the Earth community, and affirmed the independent subjectivity of other-than-humans. The author argues for the existence of a specific Old English ecotheology, and demonstrates the influence of that theology on contemporaneous poetry. Taking the Exeter Book as a microcosm of the poetic corpus, she explores the impact of early medieval apocalypticism and environmental anxiety on Old English wisdom poems, riddles, elegies, and saints' lives.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Series
Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures
Contents
Cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Early Medieval Earth Consciousness
AElfric, Wulfstan, and the Exeter Book
Chapter Summaries
Bibliography
1. Old English Ecotheology
Medieval and Modern Ecotheology
Conclusions
Bibliography
2. The Web of Creation in Wisdom Poems
Gnome(ish) Wisdom in Old English Poetry
"The Web of Mysteries": Poetic Entanglement in The Order of the World
Mapping Kinship Connections in Maxims I
Conclusions
Bibliography
3. Identity, Affirmation, and Resistance in the Exeter Riddle Collection
Ambiguous interpretation in the Exeter riddle collection
Birds'-Eye View: Riddle 6 and Riddle 7
Heroic Horns and Wounded Wood: Riddles of Transformation
Conclusions
Bibliography
4. Trauma and Apocalypse in the Eco-elegies
Environmental Trauma & Natural Depression in The Wanderer
Apocalypse / Now: The Ruin
Conclusions
Bibliography
5. Mutual Custodianship in the Landscapes of Gulac A
Home, Alone: Gulac in the Wilderness
Lessons in Early Medieval English Environmentalism
Conclusions
Bibliography
Coda: Old English Ecotheology
Bibliography
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