In Enigmate: The History of a Riddle, 400-1500 - Couverture rigide

Sebo, Erin Madeleine

 
9781846826344: In Enigmate: The History of a Riddle, 400-1500
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1846826349 ISBN 13 : 9781846826344
Editeur : Four Courts Press Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

This is a study of a single riddle as it is transmitted, translated, and transformed over more than a thousand years. Beginning with the influential late-antique riddle text Aenigmata Symphosii, In enigmate charts an arc through the extraordinary popularity of riddles in Anglo-Saxon England, their decline as a learned literary form after the Norman conquest, their emergence in early modern ballads, and beyond. 

At the center of this study is the Creation riddle, perhaps the best-known riddle in early England. Versions of it survive in both popular and elite literature, and because it is constructed around an enigmatic description of Creation, it reveals changing cosmological and cosmographical conceptions as it is retold and reimagined. More interesting, perhaps, are popular versions of the riddle, which offer a glimpse of how Creation was imagined outside the scholarly class. Together, the iterations of this riddle represent a unique opportunity to study the imaginary geography of medieval society as it changed over time.

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À propos de l?auteur

Erin Sebo completed her PhD at Trinity College Dublin. She is lecturer in medieval literature at Flinders University, South Australia.

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Éditeur
Four Courts Press Ltd
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1846826349
ISBN 13 
9781846826344
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
203
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