Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-207) and index.
Contents:
What Orosius said: temporal heterogeneity in the Old English Orosius -- Sanctity and soil: Ælfrics life of Oswald, king and martyr -- Communities of the page in the Ælfrician homiletic corpus -- Becoming England: The Northumbrian conversion in Trevet, Gower, and Chaucer -- Beowulfs collectivities.
Summary:
"Reinterprets the translation of medieval texts such as Orosius, Ælfrics Lives of Saints, Ælfrics Homilies, Chaucer, Trevet, Gower, and Beowulf, through translation effects, observable traces which show how writers reimagined the political, cultural, and linguistic communities in which their texts were consumed"-- Provided by publisher.
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