Bede and Aethelthryth
Subtitle: An Introduction to Christian Latin Poetics
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781940425931
Subjects: Christian poetry, history and criticism; Latin poetry, history and criticism
Description: This book attempts to reconstruct the horizon of expectation of a highly learned, Latin-speaking nun as she encounters a 50-line poem by the Venerable Bede, the Hymn to Aethelthryth --