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TITLE: The Hexaemeral Tradition in Old English Poetry (1975)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Researcher | Smith, Edith Katherine |
| Abstract | ii In our search for an understanding of Old English cosmological conceptions we discover that the creation myth is central to the mysteries of the Christian faith, and that the Greek and Latin authors ' interpretations of creation, known as "Hexaemera", provide much that is vital and influential to Old English poetic cosmology. My purpose in this dissertation is two-fold. The first is to provide for the Old English biblically-based poems an informing context of Greek and Latin hexaemeral writings drawn mainly from the Fathers of the Church. The second is to examine three Old English texts on creation and paradise as set against the background of the Mediterranean hexaemeral tradition. That a definite and complex accumula- |
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| Publisher Date | 1975-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Thesis |
