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Author:

Drout, Michael D. C., 1968-

Title:

How tradition works : a meme-based cultural poetics of the Anglo-Saxon tenth century / Michael D.C. Drout.

Publisher:

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xvii, 333 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Exeter book.
English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.
English language--Old English, ca. 450-1100--Texts.
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon--Sources.
Monasticism and religious orders.--Rules.
Memetics.
Poetics.
England--Civilization--To 1066.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-317) and index.

Contents:

How tradition works -- Why memetics? -- The English Benedictine reform : a concise summary -- The rule of St. Benedict, the Regularis concordia, and the memetic basis of reform culture -- Anglo-Saxon wills and the inheritance of tradition -- Repetition, pattern recognition, tradition, and style -- The interplay of traditions : style and the Old English translation of the enlarged rule of Chrodegang -- The Exeter Book wisdom poems and the Benedictine reform -- The vocabulary of the wisdom poems and the Chrodegang translation.

Series:

Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies ; v. 306

ISBN:

9780866983501
9780866983501 (alk. paper)
0866983503 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)65197747

LCCN:

2006007478

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)