Reading Anglo-Saxon poems in their most immediate context has marked a new trend in recent scholarship, since Fred C. Robinson’s pivotal research work carried out in the 1980s. Some traditional views, concerning both textual boundaries and juxtaposition of different narrative genre units within the same manuscript copy, have since been reexamined, to the point of proposing, in a few cases, significant changes in the edition and verse numbering of single poems. By carefully rereading some Old English (sequences of) texts in their manuscript context, and by combining internal and paleographical evidence, the present investigation shows that good grounds exist for questioning the standard identification of poetic units and the current interpretation of textual sequences in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts on a larger scale. Analysis focuses in particular on the prefatory verse calendar and metrical gnomic collection in London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius B. I, as related to the C-Text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; the so-called “Storm Riddle(s)” in the Exeter Book, and the case study of 'The Rewards of Piety' in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 201.

Il confine del testo. Dinamiche 'in limine' nella trasmissione della poesia anglosassone

Cucina, Carla
2019-01-01

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Reading Anglo-Saxon poems in their most immediate context has marked a new trend in recent scholarship, since Fred C. Robinson’s pivotal research work carried out in the 1980s. Some traditional views, concerning both textual boundaries and juxtaposition of different narrative genre units within the same manuscript copy, have since been reexamined, to the point of proposing, in a few cases, significant changes in the edition and verse numbering of single poems. By carefully rereading some Old English (sequences of) texts in their manuscript context, and by combining internal and paleographical evidence, the present investigation shows that good grounds exist for questioning the standard identification of poetic units and the current interpretation of textual sequences in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts on a larger scale. Analysis focuses in particular on the prefatory verse calendar and metrical gnomic collection in London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius B. I, as related to the C-Text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; the so-called “Storm Riddle(s)” in the Exeter Book, and the case study of 'The Rewards of Piety' in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 201.
2019
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