Undoing Babel: The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature 1487500548, 9781487500542
The Tower of Babel narrative is one of the most memorable accounts of the Bible, and its interpretative potential has pr
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English Pages 312 [307] Year 2018
Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Genesis 10–11
Introduction
1 Early Jewish and Christian Antiquity
2 Latin Christian Antiquity
3 The Early Anglo-Saxon School at Canterbury
4 Bede and Alcuin
5 Alfred the Great and the Literature of His Reign
6 The Tenth and Early Eleventh Centuries
7 The Biblical Poems of Junius 11
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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