Irina Dumitrescu (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn)

The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

This engaging study explores how early medieval writers reflected on the nature of education and the acquisition of wisdom. By studying representations of teaching and learning in five early English texts, Irina Dumitrescu sheds light on the underappreciated emotional and cognitive complexities of Anglo-Saxon instruction.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9781108416863
• ISBN-10: 1108416861
• Artikelnr.: 49049389

Autorenporträt

Irina Dumitrescu is Junior Professor of English Medieval Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. She is the editor of Rumba Under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi (2016). Her scholarship has been published in journals such as PMLA, Exemplaria, The Chaucer Review, Anglia, Postmedieval, Forum for Modern Language Studies, and in various international collections. Her literary essays have appeared in the Yale Review, Southwest Review, The Atlantic, and Longreads, and been reprinted in Best American Essays 2016.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Letters: Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
2. Prayer: Solomon and Saturn I
3. Violence: Ælfric Bata's colloquies
4. Recollection: Andreas
5. Desire: the life of St Mary of Egypt
Conclusion: the ends of teaching.