Allen J. Frantzenis Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago and has been a Loyola University scholar since 2000. He is also the founding director of the Loyola Community Literacy Center.John Hinesis Professor at Cardiff University in Great Britain. He is currently working on a major and interdisciplinary cultural history of Anglo-Saxon England to provide a substantial and comprehensive discussion of life and conditions in the period from the Anglo-Saxon settlements to the Norman Conquest.
Preface
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Material Differences: The Place of Cædmon's Hymn in the History of Anglo-Saxon Vernacular Poetry
Daniel P. O'Donnell, University of Lethbridge
Literary Contects: Cædmon's Hymn as a Center of Bede's World
Scott DeGregorio, University of Michigan Dearborn
Cædmon's Created World and the Monastic Encyclopedia
Faith Wallis, McGill University
All Created Things: Material Contexts for Bede's Story of Cædmon
Allen J. Frantzen, Loyola University Chicago
Cædmon's World: Secular and Monastic Lifestules and Estate Organization in Northern England, A.D. 650-900
Christopher Loveluck, University of Nottingham
Changes and Exchanges in Bede's and Cædmon's World
John Hines, Univeristy of Cardiff
Bibliography
Index
The essays in this book use the nine-line poem known asCædmon’s Hymnas a lens on the world of Bede’sEcclesiastical History. A cowherd who is given a divine gift, Cædmon retells the great narratives of Christian history in the traditional form of Anglo-Saxon verse. An immense amount has been written about this episode, much of it concentrating on the hymn’s significance in the history of English literature. Relatively little attention, however, has been paid to what the story of Cædmon and hilă_
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