Proverbia Septentrionalia: Essays on Proverbs in Medieval Scandinavian and English Literature

Cichon Michael, Yin Liu (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2019
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US (Verlag)
978-0-86698-599-4 (ISBN)

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Proverbia Septentrionalia examines the uses of the proverb in the medieval cultures of northern Europe, and in particular how it is employed in literature and in non-fictional writings. The discipline of paroemiology, or the study of proverbs, recognizes their origins as often preceding the literate stage of societies. In fact, they must have made up a significant element in that formulaic framework by which knowledge and wisdom were fixed and transmitted generationally in the communities of pre-literate humanity. Proverb texts have, and indeed may be defined by, their own generative structure, the presence of which in texts incorporated in poems and stories marks such passages not merely as instructive in themselves, but also as resonating with accepted communal wisdom in ways that can help us understand the works in which they occur.

Introduction
— by Michael Cichon, Richard L. Harris, and Yin Liu

1. Some Paroemiological Approaches to Studies in North Germanic Medieval Literatures and Cultures
— by Richard L. Harris

2. Proverbial Thought in Some Early Germanic Poems
— by Joseph Harris

3. Traditional Proverbs in the Construction of the Old English Maxims I
— by Susan E. Deskis

4. New Thoughts on Old Wisdom: Norse Gnomic Poetry, the Narrative Turn, and Situational Ethics
— by Carolyne Larrington

5. Þat hafa gamlir menn mælt: The Proverbs of Egils saga
— by Dale Kedwards

6. Talking Cloaks and Hidden Wisdom: A Sapiential Figure in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
— by Damian Fleming and Thomas D. Hill

7. The Use of Proverbs in the Medieval Icelandic Exempla and Related Texts
— by Shaun F. D. Hughes

8. The “Sentential Turn” in Sigvatr Þórðarson
— by Russell Poole

9. Genteel Sententiousness: The Social Status of Proverbs in Late Medieval England
— by Andrew Taylor

10. Proverbs, Authority, and Rhetoric in Pearl and Patience
— by Corey Owen

11. Domestic Animals in Låle’s Proverbs
— by Janken Myrdal

12. Erasmus’s Political Thoughts: The Adagia as a Breeding Ground for the Institutio principis Christiani
— by Jeanine De Landtsheer

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Erscheinungsdatum	12.08.2020
Verlagsort	Arizona
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 249 mm
Gewicht	372 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-86698-599-9 / 0866985999
ISBN-13	978-0-86698-599-4 / 9780866985994
Zustand	Neuware