Book chapter
Transmission of Literature and Learning: Anglo‐Saxon Scribal Culture
A Companion to Anglo‐Saxon Literature, pp.50-70
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
2001
DOI: 10.1002/9781405165303.ch3
Abstract
While Anglo‐Saxon scribes have not recorded any such clear‐cut critiques of the nature of fiction, they do occasionally critique the works they reproduce, as in the responses to Ælfric's writings described below. Such rejoinders are only the most explicit way that scribes intrude in the process of transmission. Everything that survives of Anglo‐Saxon literature, after all, along with the vast bulk of what can be known of Anglo‐Saxon culture, was once selected for copying by Anglo‐Saxon scribes. Understanding that process of transmission is crucial to understanding the nature and the limitations of the literature so transmitted.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Transmission of Literature and Learning: Anglo‐Saxon Scribal Culture
- Creators
- Jonathan Wilcox
- Contributors
- Phillip Pulsiano (Editor)Elaine Treharne (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- A Companion to Anglo‐Saxon Literature, pp.50-70
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Oxford, UK
- DOI
- 10.1002/9781405165303.ch3
- Number of pages
- 21
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2001
- Academic Unit
- English
- Record Identifier
- 9984363649402771
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