Religious piety has rarely been animated as vigorously as in Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints. Ranging from lyrical to dramatic to narrative and showing great inventiveness, these ten anonymous poems vividly demonstrate the extraordinary hybrid that emerges when traditional Germanic verse adapts itself to Christian themes.


Format Inbunden Omfång 432 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Harvard University Press Utgivningsdatum 2013-11-01 ISBN 9780674053182