Old English ecotheology : the Exeter Book /
Barajas, Courtney Catherine,
Old English ecotheology : the Exeter Book / Courtney Catherine Barajas. - 1 online resource (230 pages) - Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures .
Includes bibliographies and index.
This book examines the impact of environmental crises on early medieval English theology and poetry. Like their modern counterparts, theologians at the turn of the first millennium understood the interconnectedness of the Earth community, and affirmed the independent subjectivity of other-than-humans. The author argues for the existence of a specific Old English ecotheology, and demonstrates the influence of that theology on contemporaneous poetry. Taking the Exeter Book as a microcosm of the poetic corpus, she explores the impact of early medieval apocalypticism and environmental anxiety on Old English wisdom poems, riddles, elegies, and saints' lives.
9789048550388 9048550386
Exeter book.
Ecotheology.
Electronic Books.
BT695 / .O434 2021
Old English ecotheology : the Exeter Book / Courtney Catherine Barajas. - 1 online resource (230 pages) - Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures .
Includes bibliographies and index.
This book examines the impact of environmental crises on early medieval English theology and poetry. Like their modern counterparts, theologians at the turn of the first millennium understood the interconnectedness of the Earth community, and affirmed the independent subjectivity of other-than-humans. The author argues for the existence of a specific Old English ecotheology, and demonstrates the influence of that theology on contemporaneous poetry. Taking the Exeter Book as a microcosm of the poetic corpus, she explores the impact of early medieval apocalypticism and environmental anxiety on Old English wisdom poems, riddles, elegies, and saints' lives.
9789048550388 9048550386
Exeter book.
Ecotheology.
Electronic Books.
BT695 / .O434 2021