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"This revisionist literary history of late-medieval and Renaissance poetry offers in-depth analyses of six major poets - Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, Lydgate, Skelton, and Wyatt - and reconstructs their ideas about the proper way to write. It sheds new light on the question of what these poets thought literature itself was made from"--

This book presents the first updated, readable translation of medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the 5th century well into the Renaissance.

Beowulf is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.The text in this volume is based on the single surviving manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. Also inside is a complete glossary with each word cross-referenced to the line in which it appears.

1) Index of contents2) Introduction3) Scandinavian intrusion and incursion from the eight to the eleventh century4) The relation between Old Norse and Old English 4.1 Palatalization 4.2 Grammatical influence5) Scandinavian loanwords and their character6) Why did these changes occur?7) Conclusion8) Bibliography

Cognitive approaches to early medieval texts have tended to focus on the mind in isolation. By examining the interplay between mental and physical acts deployed in Old English poetry and prose, this study identifies new patterns and offers new perspectives. In these texts, the performance of right or wrong action is not linked to natural inclination dictated by birth; it is the fruit of right or wrong thinking. The mind consciously directed and controlled is open to external influences, both human and diabolical. This struggle to produce right thought and action reflects an emerging democratization of heroism that crosses societal and gender boundaries, becoming intertwined with socio-political, soteriological, and cultural meaning. In a study of influential prose texts, including the Alfredian translations and the sermons of Ælfric, alongside close readings of three poems from different genres - The Seafarer, The Battle of Maldon, and Juliana -, Ponirakis demonstrates how early medieval authors create patterns of interaction between the mental and the physical. These provide hidden keys to meaning which, once found, unlock new readings of much studied texts. In addition, these patterns of balance, distribution, and opposition, reveal a startling similarity of approach across genre and form, taking the discussion of the early medieval conception of the mind, soul, and emotion, not to mention conventional generic divisions, onto new ground.

Dieses Themenheft bedient die Lehrplanthemen Irland und Schottland und ist somit in der Mittelstufe und auch in der gymnasialen Oberstufe einsetzbar. Lerner und Leser werden anhand von z.T. sehr persönlichen Texten durch diese beiden wunderbaren Länder geführt und bereisen die Hauptstädte Dublin und Edinburgh sowie die wilde Atlantikküste oder mittelalterliche Burgen und Schlösser im Landesinnern. Aber auch politischen Themen wie dem Nordirland-Konflikt, der Unabhängigkeit Schottlands im Zuge der Brexit-Verhandlungen oder der Homosexuellen-Ehe wird Rechnung getragen. Und natürlich dürfen Themen wie Halloween in den beiden Ländern nicht fehlen und eine unerschrockene Piratin lehrt den Lerner das Fürchten und belegt eindrucksvoll, dass auch Frauen im Mittelalter ihren Mann stehen konnten!An jeden Text schließt sich eine Übungseinheit an, die jeweils eine dieser Kompetenzen fokussiert: Reading - Listening - Speaking - Writing. Die Audio-Dateien für das Hörverstehen sind auf der Verlagshomepage über einen im Heft angegebenen Link zugänglich.