Germanic Texts and Latin Models: Medieval ReconstructionsKarin E. Olsen, Antonina Harbus, Tette Hofstra Peeters Publishers, 2001 - 240 من الصفحات Medieval writers who 'translated' Latin texts into Germanic vernaculars not only transmitted their originals, but, driven by individualistic impulses and cultural conventions, also transformed them. This process of domesticating texts was fundamentally creative and might more accurately be described as 'reconstruction'. The essays in Germanic Texts and Latin Models: Medieval Reconstructions explore the ways in which Latin texts and traditions were reconstructed in Old English, Old Icelandic and Old High German and cover a range of genres: legal texts, genealogies, histories, and poetry. They examine how medieval Germanic authors negotiated the need to transmit their models while at the same time fulfilling their own political, artistic and didactic objectives in the creation of vernacular texts. These new studies demonstrate the variety of ways in which medieval Germanic texts were indebted to their Latin exemplars, while reflecting their new culturally specific circumstances in the complex nexus of Latin learning and Germanic lore. |
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Transformation of a Latin Loanword | 7 |
Wordplay and Swordplay in the Waltharius | 29 |
Ideals Formulated by the Bible Einhard and Hincmar of Rheims | 53 |
Aristotelian Criteria for Abortion in Germania | 73 |
Latin Models of Poetic SelfPresentation in | 93 |
History Poetry and National Identity in AngloSaxon England | 107 |
The Psychology of Resolution in Andreas | 127 |
From Empress to Saint | 141 |
Generic Expectations and the Relationship between | 157 |
On the Impossibility of Interpreting Hrafnkels Saga | 173 |
List of Contributors | 231 |
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abortion Alfred's anchor Andreas Andrew's Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Anglo-Saxon England Anglo-Saxon law Aristotelian audience Battle of Brunanburh Beowulf Caesarius Cambridge Carolingian century Charlemagne Christian Church concept contraception Cynewulf Cynewulf's discussion Dronke early Edda Elene Elene's ethnic Evangelienbuch example Exodus fetus Frankish Franks Fredegar genre Gesetze Helena heroic History Holy Hrafnkels saga identity imagined community interpretation judgement King Alfred Lactantius's language Latin Leges Liebermann lingua literature London magic manuscript Medieval Middle Ages modern motif myth of origin narrative nation Old English Phoenix Old English poem Old High German Old Norse Otfrid Oxford pagan Pálsson penance penitentials Physiologus play poet poet's poetic poetry refers repr Reykjavík role Roman Saxon Scyld seiðr sermons Sibyl sibylline stanza story textual thaz thou tion tradition trans translation vernacular verse Visigothic laws vols volur Voluspá volva Walter Waltharius woman women word writing þæt þam Þorkell