The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry
The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry
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Commonly referred to as The Exeter Book, this anthology is the earliest and largest surviving book of vernacular poetry from Anglo-Saxon England. It includes many newly-discovered alterations to the poetic texts in addition to the four hundred new readings listed in the first edition.
The new electronic edition of the Exeter Book shows to what heights these developments have led, and to what extent a combined textual and visual representation of the manuscript has surplus value when compared to ‘traditional’ text or facsimile editions. To put it in plain words: once I started the DVD I was lost. Completely unaware of my surrounding I spent three hours without noticing that time had passed only to awake to the reality of everyday departmental life by a knock on my door. Bernard Muir and Nick Kennedy have given us a user-friendly, esthetically attractive, and all-encompassing facsimile-cum-edition of the text. The DVD provides crystal clear images of every page of the manuscript, side by side with the text.
Erik Kooper, The European English Messenger, Autumn
Bernard Muir is Reader in Medieval Language and Literature in the English Department, University of Melbourne. His publications include The Art of the Book: Its Place in Medieval Worship(Exeter); Vita Sancti Wilfridi Auctore Edmero: The Life of Saint Wilfrid by Edmer (Exeter); A Pre-Conquest English Prayerbook (Boydell).
The new electronic edition of the Exeter Book shows to what heights these developments have led, and to what extent a combined textual and visual representation of the manuscript has surplus value when compared to ‘traditional’ text or facsimile editions. To put it in plain words: once I started the DVD I was lost. Completely unaware of my surrounding I spent three hours without noticing that time had passed only to awake to the reality of everyday departmental life by a knock on my door. Bernard Muir and Nick Kennedy have given us a user-friendly, esthetically attractive, and all-encompassing facsimile-cum-edition of the text. The DVD provides crystal clear images of every page of the manuscript, side by side with the text.
Erik Kooper, The European English Messenger, Autumn
Bernard Muir is Reader in Medieval Language and Literature in the English Department, University of Melbourne. His publications include The Art of the Book: Its Place in Medieval Worship(Exeter); Vita Sancti Wilfridi Auctore Edmero: The Life of Saint Wilfrid by Edmer (Exeter); A Pre-Conquest English Prayerbook (Boydell).