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The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium)
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First modern text and English translation of an important Anglo-Saxon poem dealing with the liturgical year.
WINNER of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists 2017 Publication Prize: Best Edition
The late tenth-century Old English Metrical Calendar (traditionally known as Menologium) summarises, in the characteristicheroic diction and traditional metre of Old English poetry, the major course of the Anglo-Saxon liturgical year. It sets out, in a methodical structure based on the basic temporal framework of the solar/natural year, the locations of the major feasts widely observed in late Anglo-Saxon England. Such a work could have been a practical timepiece for reading the dates of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, for which it serves as a kind of prologue in the manuscript.The clearly domestic perspective of the poem, which fits in the manuscript context, is also noteworthy, while the poem also reveals various interesting characteristics in its grammar, vocabulary and prosody.
This is the firstfull modern edition of the poem, and is accompanied by a facing translation. The introduction provides an extensive discussion of matter, content, style, and context, while the commentary offers further information. The volume also includes the texts and translations of a number of analogous works.
Kazutomo Karasawa is Professor of English philology at Komazawa University, Tokyo.
WINNER of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists 2017 Publication Prize: Best Edition
The late tenth-century Old English Metrical Calendar (traditionally known as Menologium) summarises, in the characteristicheroic diction and traditional metre of Old English poetry, the major course of the Anglo-Saxon liturgical year. It sets out, in a methodical structure based on the basic temporal framework of the solar/natural year, the locations of the major feasts widely observed in late Anglo-Saxon England. Such a work could have been a practical timepiece for reading the dates of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, for which it serves as a kind of prologue in the manuscript.The clearly domestic perspective of the poem, which fits in the manuscript context, is also noteworthy, while the poem also reveals various interesting characteristics in its grammar, vocabulary and prosody.
This is the firstfull modern edition of the poem, and is accompanied by a facing translation. The introduction provides an extensive discussion of matter, content, style, and context, while the commentary offers further information. The volume also includes the texts and translations of a number of analogous works.
Kazutomo Karasawa is Professor of English philology at Komazawa University, Tokyo.
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Contributor: Kazutomo Karasawa
Kazutomo Karasawa is Professor of English philology at Rikkyo University, Tokyo.
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Contents
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Preface
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1 The Title
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2 Editorial History
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3 The Manuscript and Its Context
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4 Sources
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5 Analogues
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6 Structure
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7 Entries
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8 The Relationship between the Prose and the Verse Menologium
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9 Purpose
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10 Language
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11 Prosody
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12 Date and Place of Composition
70 - The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium) Text and Translation
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Notes on the Text
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Commentary
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Appendix 1 The Prose Menologium
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Appendix 2 Metrical Calendar of York
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Appendix 3 Félire Adamnáin
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Appendix 4 Enlaith betha
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Appendix 5 List of Anglo-Saxon Calendars
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Appendix 6 Immovable Feasts Marked in Anglo-Saxon Calendars
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Appendix 7 Vigils in Anglo-Saxon Calendars
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Appendix 8 Dates of the Solar Turning Points in Anglo-Saxon Calendars
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Appendix 9 Latin and Old English Month-Names in the Old English Written Tradition and in the Verse Menologium
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Glossary
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Bibliography
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Keywords for this book
Old English Metrical Calendar; Menologium; Liturgical year; Anglo-Saxon liturgy; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; Solar/natural year; Domestic perspective; Grammar; Vocabulary; Prosody; Kazutomo Karasawa; English philology; liturgical year; Anglo-Saxon poetry; medieval liturgy; Christian festivals; liturgical traditions; Anglo-Saxon England; religious texts; cultural history; medieval Christianity; manuscript studies; Christian worship; liturgical practices
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