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Reading Old English Biblical Poetry
The Book and the Poem in Junius 11
Janet Schrunk Ericksen (Author)
9781487507466
Hardback, published 19 November 2020
234 pages
23.1 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.46 kg
"Ericksen’s full-length study of MS Junius 11 is a welcome addition to the body of scholarship, and it has applications for contemporary reading as well." - Jodi Grimes, Dallas Baptist University (Christianity & Literature)
Reading Old English Biblical Poetry considers the Junius 11 manuscript, the only surviving illustrated book of Old English poetry, in terms of its earliest readers and their multiple strategies of reading and making meaning. Junius 11 begins with the Creation story and ends with the final vanquishing of Satan by Jesus. The study is framed by particular attention to the materiality of the manuscript and how that might have informed its early reception, and it broadens considerations of reading beyond those of the manuscript’s compiler and possible patron. As a book, Junius 11 reflects a rich and varied culture of reading that existed in and beyond houses of God in England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and it points to readers who had enough experience to select and find wisdom, narrative pleasure, and a diversity of other things within this orany book’s contents.
Abbreviations Introduction: Reading Junius 11 1. The Thrice-Told Tale References
Acknowledgements
2. Seeing and Believing in Daniel and Genesis B
3. Boceras and Exodus
4. Wisdom Literature at the Back of the Book
5. The Book in the Library
Index