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题名/责任者:

Old English scholarship in the seventeenth century : medievalism and national crisis / Rebecca Brackmann.

出版发行项:

Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2023.

ISBN:

9781843846529 :

载体形态项:

xii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

变异题名:

Old English scholarship in the 17th century

丛编说明:

Medievalism, 2043-8230 ; Volume XXIII

丛编统一题名:

Medievalism (Series) ; v. 23.

个人责任者:

Brackmann, Rebecca, author.

论题主题:

Learning and scholarship-England-History-17th century.

论题主题:

English literature-Old English, ca. 450-1100-History and criticism.

论题主题:

Medievalism-England-History-17th century.

地理名称主题:

England-Intellectual life-17th century.

中图法分类号:

I561.06

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index.

摘要附注:

England in the 1640s and 1650s experienced civil wars, regicide, and unprecedented debate over religious and social structures, but it also saw several milestones in the field of early medieval English studies. This book argues that the scholars of Old English who produced these works did so not in spite but because of the intense political upheaval surrounding them. The opening chapters examine the book collecting and lexicographic endeavors of the Parliamentarian Simonds D'Ewes, sponsor of the professorship of "Saxon" at Cambridge University, and Abraham Wheelock's pro-Stuart "Old English" poetry and the puritan overtones of his edition of the Old English Historia Ecclesiastica. It then moves on to consider the constitutionalist Roger Twysden's depiction of early English laws as the cornerstone for English identity in his edition of Archaionomia and the Leges Henrici Primi; and the royalist and Laudian bent of both William Somner's chorographic work and his Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum, the first printed dictionary of Old English. It concludes by an exploration of the way in which William Dugdale deployed early medieval events to comment on his present day in his monumental county history, Antiquities of Warwickshire. The volume as a whole suggests that the crises through which these scholars lived and worked spurred their research to engage with both the past and present, using Old English texts as a lens through which to view understand and contribute to contemporary debates about the English church and state.

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