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dc.contributor.authorRauer, Christine
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-18T23:36:15Z
dc.date.available2019-10-18T23:36:15Z
dc.date.issued2017-10
dc.identifier.citationRauer , C 2017 , ' Early Mercian text production : authors, dialects, and reputations ' , Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik , vol. 77 , no. 3-4 , pp. 541-558 . https://doi.org/10.1163/18756719-12340091en
dc.identifier.issn0165-7305
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 249549073
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: e9707047-14ce-4bc2-bc59-c438762dbf5e
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-7593-0152/work/60426835
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/18709
dc.description.abstractThere are suggestions that King Alfred’s legendary literary renaissance may have been a reaction to the efforts of the neighbouring kingdom of Mercia. According to Asser, Alfred assembled a group of literary scholars from this rival Mercian tradition at his court. But it is not clear what early literary activities these scholars could have been involved in to justify their pre-Alfredian reputation. This article tries to outline the historical and literary evidence for early Mercian text production, and the importance of this ‘other’ early literary corpus. What is our current knowledge of Mercian text production and the political and literary relationship of Mercia with Canterbury? What was the relationship of Alfred’s educational movement with its Mercian forerunner? Why is modern scholarship better informed about Alfred’s movement than any Mercian rival culture? If our current knowledge of this area is insufficient for the writing of a literary history of Mercia, a provisional list of texts and bibliography, published electronically for convenient updating, may prove useful in the meantime.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofAmsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistiken
dc.rights© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2017. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1163/18756719-12340091en
dc.subjectPR English literatureen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subject.lccPRen
dc.titleEarly Mercian text production : authors, dialects, and reputationsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Englishen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studiesen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1163/18756719-12340091
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2019-10-19


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