Anglo-Saxon Keywords offers 75 essays about a wide range of topics that link modern culture to the central concepts of Anglo-Saxon literature, language, and material culture. These keywords, many adapted from the famous work by Raymond Williams, will enable students at any level, generalists, and specialists working outside the period to become better acquainted with Anglo-Saxon texts and cultural forces. Anglo-Saxonists already familiar with these concepts will find that the book offers them new connections torecent intellectual and social traditions.
Anglo-Saxon Keywords presents a series of entries that reveal the links between modern ideas and scholarship and the central concepts of Anglo-Saxon literature, language, and material culture.
Reveals important links between central concepts of the Anglo-Saxon period and issues we think about today
Reveals how material culture-the history of labor, medicine, technology, identity, masculinity, sex, food, land use-is as important as the history of ideas
Offers a richly theorized approach that intersects with many disciplines inside and outside of medieval studies
Anglo-Saxon Keywords presents a series of entries that reveal the links between modern ideas and scholarship and the central concepts of Anglo-Saxon literature, language, and material culture.
Reveals important links between central concepts of the Anglo-Saxon period and issues we think about today
Reveals how material culture-the history of labor, medicine, technology, identity, masculinity, sex, food, land use-is as important as the history of ideas
Offers a richly theorized approach that intersects with many disciplines inside and outside of medieval studies