Riddles at Work in the Early Medieval Tradition
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- ISBN 9781526178763
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2024
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Capitalising on developments in the field over the past decade, Riddles at work provides an up-to-date microcosm of research on the early medieval riddle tradition. The book presents a wide range of traditional and experimental methodologies. The contributors treat the riddles both as individual poems and as parts of a tradition, but, most importantly, they address Latin and Old English riddles side-by-side, bringing together texts that originally developed in conversation with each other but have often been separated by scholarship. Together, the chapters reveal that there is no single, right way to read these texts but rather a multitude of productive paths. This book will appeal to students and scholars of early medieval studies. It contains new as well as established voices, including Jonathan Wilcox, Mercedes Salvador-Bello and Jennifer Neville.
Megan Cavell is Associate Professor in medieval literature at the University of Birmingham
Jennifer Neville is Reader in Anglo-Saxon Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London
