The Cædmon Manuscript: The Beginnings of English Religious Poetry, I

Bernard Muir

The Cædmon Manuscript

The Beginnings of English Religious Poetry, I

The Cædmon Manuscript is one of three extant anthologies of English Christian poetry produced in England before 1000 CE. It is a collection of four religious poems in Old English based on Biblical materials. They have the editorial names Genesis, Exodus, Daniel and Christ and Satan. This edition consists of an Introduction, Bibliography, Codicological and Paleographical Analysis, an Art-Historical Commentary and an edition of the four poems.

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The Cædmon Manuscript

The Beginnings of English Religious Poetry, I

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Foreword
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Contents
pp xi-xii

Introduction
pp 1-34

Gathering Diagrams
pp 35-54

Abbreviated References
pp 55-56

Select Bibliography
pp 57-68

Poems
pp 69-260

Art-Historical Commentary
pp 261-299

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