How tradition works : a meme-based cultural poetics of the Anglo-Saxon tenth century /
Drout, Michael D. C.,1968-
Tempe, Ariz. : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-317) and index.
How tradition works -- Why memetics? -- The English Benedictine reform : a concise summary -- The rule of St. Benedict, the Regularis concordia, and the memetic basis of reform culture -- Anglo-Saxon wills and the inheritance of tradition -- Repetition, pattern recognition, tradition, and style -- The interplay of traditions : style and the Old English translation of the enlarged rule of Chrodegang -- The Exeter Book wisdom poems and the Benedictine reform -- The vocabulary of the wisdom poems and the Chrodegang translation.
Exeter book.
English literature
English language
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon
Monasticism and religious orders
Memetics.
Poetics.