The Old English Soul and body
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Text in English; includes quotations in Old English
Bibliography: p. 99-103
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The first critical edition of one of the earliest representations of the body-and-soul theme in the middle ages, which, unusually, survives in more than one copy and is therefore of particular relevance to the study of the transmission of texts; discussion of manuscripts, language, prosody and structure.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Manuscripts: the Vercelli book
- the Exeter book
- paleographic features in the versions of "Soul and Body"
- textual history
- editorial history. Part 2 Language: phonology, morphology, syntax
- vocabulary. Part 3 Prosody. Part 4 Formulaic composition. Part 5 Sources and analogues: origins of the body-and-soul theme
- the Nonantola version
- the Junius and Cambridge Addresses
- Vercelli homily IV and other prose addresses
- "Soul and Body" and later English body-and-soul poems. Part 6 Literary criticism: structure and tone
- the damned soul
- the blessed soul.
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