Is it possible to enter the minds of medieval people? Anglo-Saxon Audiences explores this question through the use of modern approaches in textual analysis, including techniques of functional grammar, speech act analysis, and semiotics. This book reveals how kings, councillors, and homilists tried to engage and to direct the minds of Anglo-Saxon communicants, and how poets invited their audiences to consider the minds of others as well as their own. This book focuses on legal codes promulgated from the ninth to the eleventh centuries, the homilies of AElfric and Wulfstan, Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, Deor, and two elegies. Its unifying theme is that Anglo-Saxon audiences welcomed texts focused on future time, a perspective that challenged them to reflect on diverse patterns of thought.
| ISBN: | 9780820445502 |
| Publication date: | 4th September 2001 |
| Author: | Eugene Green |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 235 pages |
| Series: | Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics |
| Genres: |
Historical and comparative linguistics Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Semiotics / semiology History and Archaeology |
Is it possible to enter the minds of medieval people? Anglo-Saxon Audiences explores this question through the use of modern approaches in textual analysis, including techniques of functional grammar, speech act analysis, and semiotics. This book reveals how kings, councillors, and homilists tried to engage and to direct the minds of Anglo-Saxon communicants, and how poets invited their audiences to consider the minds of others as well as their own. This book focuses on legal codes promulgated from the ninth to the eleventh centuries, the homilies of AElfric and Wulfstan, Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, Deor, and two elegies. Its unifying theme is that Anglo-Saxon audiences welcomed texts focused on future time, a perspective that challenged them to reflect on diverse patterns of thought.
Anglo Saxon Audiences features in the following genres: Historical and comparative linguistics, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Semiotics / semiology, History and Archaeology
Anglo Saxon Audiences is available in Hardback
Anglo Saxon Audiences was written by Eugene Green and published by P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
Anglo Saxon Audiences has 235 pages
Yes it is part of Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics series