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The King's English

Strategies of Translation in the Old English Boethius

By: Nicole Guenther Discenza

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Strategies of Translation in the Old English Boethius

By: Nicole Guenther Discenza

In the late ninth century, while England was fighting off Viking incursions, Alfred the Great devoted time and resources not only to military campaigns but also to a campaign of translation and education unprecedented in early medieval Europe. The King's English explores how Alfred's translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy from Latin into Old English exposed Anglo-Saxon elites to classical literature, history, science, and Christian thought. More radically, the Boethius, as it became known, told its audiences how a leader should think and what he should be, providing models for leadership and wisdom that live on in England to this day. It also brought prestige to its kingly translator and enshrined his dialect, West Saxon, as the literary language of the English people. Nicole Guenther Discenza looks at the sources Alfred used in his translation and demonstrates his selectivity in choosing what to retain, what to borrow, and how to represent it to his Anglo-Saxon audience. Alfred's appeals to Latin prestige, spiritual authority, Old English poetry, and everyday experience in England combine to make the Old English Boethius a powerful text and a rich source for our understanding of Anglo-Saxon literature, culture, and society.

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State University of New York Press

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0791483231

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Inhabited Spaces

Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Place

By: Nicole Guenther Discenza

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Inhabited Spaces

Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Place

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We tend to think of early medieval people as unsophisticated about geography because their understandings of space and place often differed from ours, yet theirs were no less complex. Anglo-Saxons conceived of themselves as living at the centre of a cosmos that combined order and plenitude, two principles in a constant state of tension. In Inhabited Spaces, Nicole Guenther Discenza examines a variety of Anglo-Latin and Old English texts to shed light on Anglo-Saxon understandings of space. Anglo-Saxon models of the universe featured a spherical earth at the centre of a spherical universe ordered by God. They sought to shape the universe into knowable places, from where the earth stood in the cosmos, to the kingdoms of different peoples, and to the intimacy of the hall. Discenza argues that Anglo-Saxon works both construct orderly place and illuminate the limits of human spatial control.

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University of Toronto Press

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148751154X

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Writing the World in Early Medieval England

By: Nicole Guenther Discenza,Heide Estes

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Writing the World in Early Medieval England

By: Nicole Guenther Discenza,Heide Estes

The early medieval English were far more diverse and better connected to a broader world. This Element provides insights about early medieval English who were engaged deeply in a variety of modes with other parts of their world.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108944523

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Inhabited Spaces

Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Place

By: Nicole Guenther Discenza

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Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Place

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In Inhabited Spaces, Nicole Guenther Discenza examines a variety of Anglo-Latin and Old English texts to shed light on Anglo-Saxon understandings of space.

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1487500653

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The King's English

Strategies of Translation in the Old English Boethius

By: Nicole Guenther Discenza

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Strategies of Translation in the Old English Boethius

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Shows how Alfred the Great's translations of Latin works exposed Anglo-Saxon elites to classical learning and Christian thought while bringing prestige to the king and his West Saxon dialect.

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SUNY Press

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Writing the World in Early Medieval England

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The King's English

The King's English

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Writing the World in Early Medieval England

Writing the World in Early Medieval England

Inhabited Spaces

Inhabited Spaces

The King's English

The King's English

Writing the World in Early Medieval England

Writing the World in Early Medieval England

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