Language, lineage and location in the works of Osbern Bokenham
By: by Alice Spencer
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781443842600
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-129) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter one. Introduction : identity and community in space and time. Part one. Osbern Bokenham : emerging from the "angle of oblyuyoun" ; part two. The discovery of the Abbotsford manuscript and its implications ; part three. The angelic margins and the inclusiveness of the exemplary : authority, community and identity; title: Chapter two. Language : etymology, the vernacular, and the poetic voice. Part one. Introduction ; part two. Etymology, the Trinity and the Legenda Aurea ; part three. Etymology, national identity and the mother tongue in the Mappula Angliae and the lives of native saints ; part four. Natural language and orthodoxy; title: Chapter three. Lineage. Part one. Introduction ; part two. Genealogy, gender and nation ; part three. Genealogy, gender and succession ; part four. Gender, fertility and language; title: Chapter four. Location. Part one. Introduction ; part two. Sanctity and nation ; part three. Gender, vernacular and nation ; part four. Geographical space, authority and experience ; part five. Translating corpses and Corpora ; part six. Textual spaces : number, form, and the Trinity.