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"...I found Orchard's arguments persuasive and his lists of lexical localizations impressive....Orchard's statistical tables represent an amazing amount of old-fashioned reading and remembering, very much in keeping with what we know of Aldhelm's and his fellow poets' practices." Modern Philology
"Andy Orchard has written a penetrating, eloquent, and original volume on Aldhelm of Malmesbury's Latin poetry." Scott Gwara, Speculum
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This is the first book-length study of the poetic style of Aldhelm of Malmesbury, "the first English man of letters." Aldhelm is one of the earliest Anglo-Saxons whose writings survive, and the first to attempt to compose Latin metrical verse. Andy Orchard traces the sources and models for his idiosyncratic style and the nature and extent of his influence on later Anglo-Latin verse. The book will not only interest Anglo-Saxonists, but more broadly those interested in the wider fields of Classics, medieval Latin, oral tradition and poetics.
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"...I found Orchard's arguments persuasive and his lists of lexical localizations impressive....Orchard's statistical tables represent an amazing amount of old-fashioned reading and remembering, very much in keeping with what we know of Aldhelm's and his fellow poets' practices." Modern Philology
"Andy Orchard has written a penetrating, eloquent, and original volume on Aldhelm of Malmesbury's Latin poetry." Scott Gwara, Speculum
Product Description
This is the first book-length study of the poetic style of Aldhelm of Malmesbury, "the first English man of letters." Aldhelm is one of the earliest Anglo-Saxons whose writings survive, and the first to attempt to compose Latin metrical verse. Andy Orchard traces the sources and models for his idiosyncratic style and the nature and extent of his influence on later Anglo-Latin verse. The book will not only interest Anglo-Saxonists, but more broadly those interested in the wider fields of Classics, medieval Latin, oral tradition and poetics.
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Inside This Book Citations: This book cites 51 books | 34 books that cite this book Explore: Citations | Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - SIPs: portam pandit, medial finite verbs, most favoured patterns, octosyllabic compositions, hexameter corpus (more) Key Phrases - CAPs: Old English, Anglo-Saxon England, Books Known, Paulinus of Nola, Aldhelm's Carmen (more) Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me! |
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portam pandit, medial finite verbs, most favoured patterns, octosyllabic compositions, hexameter corpus, rhythmical octosyllables, reverse cadences, proparoxytone stress, octosyllabic poems, pedum regulis, borrowed diction, octosyllabic form, surviving booklists, accentual poems, opus geminatum, metrical treatises, arte metrica, unnoticed parallels, double alliteration, related provenance, verse diction, metrical patterning, actibus apostolorum, hexameter poets, vernacular influence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Anglo-Saxon England, Books Known, Paulinus of Nola, Aldhelm's Carmen, Miracula Nynie, Aldhelm's Latin, William of Malmesbury, Venantius Fortunatus, Michael Lapidge, Caelius Sedulius, Insular Latin, Die Briefe, Sylloge Laureshamensis, Cyprianus Gallus, Bodleian Library, Prosper of Aquitaine, Aldhelm's Enigmata, Christian Latin, Late Latin, British Library, Christ Church, Middle Ages, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Quem Deus New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Aldhelm has been described as 'the first English man of letters'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
portam pandit, medial finite verbs, most favoured patterns, octosyllabic compositions, hexameter corpus, rhythmical octosyllables, reverse cadences, proparoxytone stress, octosyllabic poems, pedum regulis, borrowed diction, octosyllabic form, surviving booklists, accentual poems, opus geminatum, metrical treatises, arte metrica, unnoticed parallels, double alliteration, related provenance, verse diction, metrical patterning, actibus apostolorum, hexameter poets, vernacular influence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Anglo-Saxon England, Books Known, Paulinus of Nola, Aldhelm's Carmen, Miracula Nynie, Aldhelm's Latin, William of Malmesbury, Venantius Fortunatus, Michael Lapidge, Caelius Sedulius, Insular Latin, Die Briefe, Sylloge Laureshamensis, Cyprianus Gallus, Bodleian Library, Prosper of Aquitaine, Aldhelm's Enigmata, Christian Latin, Late Latin, British Library, Christ Church, Middle Ages, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Quem Deus New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28 (Anglo-Saxon England) by Michael Lapidge on 26 pages
- Hisperica Famina II Related Poems (Studies and Texts) by Michael Herren on 4 pages
- The Annals of Quintus Ennius by Quintus Ennius on page 44, page 45, and Back Matter
- European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius on page 131, page 275, and Back Matter
- Old English Glosses (Anecdota Oxoniensia Medieval and Modern Series 11) by Arthur S. Napier on page 57, page 58, and Back Matter
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- The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) by Mechthild Gretsch on 8 pages
- Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England (Middle Ages Series) by Clare A. Lees on 6 pages
- Archbishop Theodore: Commemorative Studies on his Life and Influence (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) by Michael Lapidge on 4 pages
- Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Huw Pryce on page 36, page 37, and Back Matter
- The Anglo-Saxon Library by Michael Lapidge on page 105, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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