Old English Ecotheology
Titel
Old English Ecotheology
Subtitel
The Exeter Book
Prijs
€ 122,00
ISBN
9789463723824
Uitvoering
Hardback
Aantal pagina's
232
Publicatiedatum
Afmetingen
15.6 x 23.4 cm
Ook beschikbaar als
eBook PDF - € 121,99

Recensies

"Barajas’s prose embodies the generous “mutual custodianship” (179) that she has been arguing throughout this beautiful work, and the book closes with considerations of how we might move forward not only through our ownreimagined engagement with the poetic past but also how an application of this reimagining within our pedagogy may reorient our students and help manifest a better, Earth-centered future."
- Carla María Thomas, Modern Philology, Vol. 120, No. 2

Courtney Barajas

Old English Ecotheology

The Exeter Book

Old English Ecotheology examines the impact of environmental crises on early medieval English theology and poetry. Like their modern counterparts, theologians at the turn of the first millennium understood the interconnectedness of the Earth community, and affirmed the independent subjectivity of other-than-humans. The author argues for the existence of a specific Old English ecotheology, and demonstrates the influence of that theology on contemporaneous poetry. Taking the Exeter Book as a microcosm of the poetic corpus, she explores the impact of early medieval apocalypticism and environmental anxiety on Old English wisdom poems, riddles, elegies, and saints' lives.
Auteur

Courtney Barajas

Courtney Catherine Barajas is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Medieval and Modern Studies at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington.