Finding the Right Words: Isidore's Synonyma in Anglo-Saxon England (Toronto Old English Series) - Image 1

£58.48

University of Toronto Press Finding the Right Words: Isidore's Synonyma in Anglo-Saxon England (Toronto Old English Series)

Name: Finding the Right Words: Isidore's Synonyma in Anglo-Saxon England (Toronto Old English Series)
Brand: University of Toronto Press
Price: 58.48 GBP
Availability: InStock

The Plantaganets & Medieval England

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£58 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 3 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 75 days • 75 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 75 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £58 (64 days, 85.3%)

Price range: £58 - £78

Price levels: 2 different prices over 75 days

Description

Isidore of Seville (circa 570-636) was the author of the Etymologiae,. the most celebrated and widely circulated encyclopaedia of the western Middle Ages. In addition, Isidore's Synonyma were very successful and became one of the classics of medieval spirituality. Indeed, it was the Synonyma that were to define the so-called 'Isidorian style,' a rhymed, rhythmic prose that proved influential throughout the Middle Ages. Finding the Right Words is the first book-length study to deal with the transmission and reception of works by Isidore of Seville in Anglo-Saxon England, with a particular focus on the Synonyma. Beginning with a general survey of Isidore's life and activity as a bishop in early seventh-century Visigothic Spain, Claudia Di Sciacca offers a comprehensive introduction to the Synonyma, drawing special attention to their distinctive style. She goes on to discuss the transmission of the text to early medieval England and its 'vernacularisation,' that is, its translations and adaptations in Old English prose and verse. The case for the particular receptiveness of the Synonyma in Anglo-Saxon England is strongly supported by both a close reading of primary sources and an extensive selection of secondary literature. This rigorous, well-documented volume demonstrates the significance of the Synonyma to our understanding of the literary pretensions and pedagogical practices of Anglo-Saxon England, and offers new insights into the interaction of Latin and vernacular within its literary culture.

Product Specifications

Brand: University of Toronto Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0802091296
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > Great Britain > The Plantaganets & Medieval England
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 April 2008
Listed Since: 23 November 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

University of Toronto Press Finding the Right Words: Isidore's Synonyma in Anglo-Saxon England (Toronto Old English Series)

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England (Religion & Culture in the Middle Ages)

The Anglo-Saxon Library

Bede the Scholar

(Re-)Reading Bede: The Ecclesiastical History in Context

Translating Europe in Ælfric's Lives of Saints (Oxford English Monographs)

(Re-)Reading Bede: The Ecclesiastical History in Context

Cultural Connections between the Continent and Early Medieval England: Philological Studies in Honour of Rolf H. Bremmer Jr (Anglo-Saxon Studies)

Der Wortschatz des 8. Jahrhunderts (und früherer Quellen): (Titelabkürzung: Chwdw8)

Gildas's "De Excidio Britonum" and the Early British Church (Studies in Celtic History)

Writing the Welsh Borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England (Artes Liberales)

Apocryphal Texts and Traditions in Anglo-Saxon England (Pubns Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies)

Routledge Medieval Images and English Literary Texts Book

The Chronology and Canon of Ælfric of Eynsham: 37 (Anglo-Saxon Studies)

Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series)

Medieval Images, Icons, and Illustrated English Literary Texts: From the Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer

Life in Early Medieval Wales (Medieval History and Archaeology)

Charters of Peterborough Abbey: CHARTERS OF PETERBOROUGH ABBEY CTB: 14 (Anglo-Saxon Charters)

Routledge - The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past

The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past (Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland)

The Leofric Collectar vol. II: Compared with the collectar of St Wulfstan. Together with kindred documents of Exeter and Worcester: 56 (Henry Bradshaw Society)

The Life and After-Life of St John of Beverley: The Evolution of the Cult of an Anglo-Saxon Saint (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West)

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series)

Routledge - Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England Book

Code-Switching in Early English: 76 (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL], 76)