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Author/Creator:Drout, Michael D. C., 1968-
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Title:How tradition works : a meme-based cultural poetics of the Anglo-Saxon tenth century / Michael D.C. Drout.
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ISBN:0866983503
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Published/Created:Tempe, Ariz. : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006.
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Physical Description:xvii, 333 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Links:Table of contents
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Series:Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies ; v. 306
Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; v. 306.
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BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. [297]-317) and index.
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Contents:How tradition works -- Why memetics? -- The English Benedictine reform : a concise summary -- The rule of St. Benedict, the Regularis concordia, and the memetic basis of reform culture -- Anglo-Saxon wills and the inheritance of tradition -- Repetition, pattern recognition, tradition, and style -- The interplay of traditions : style and the Old English translation of the enlarged rule of Chrodegang -- The Exeter Book wisdom poems and the Benedictine reform -- The vocabulary of the wisdom poems and the Chrodegang translation.
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Subjects:Exeter book.
English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.
English language--Old English, ca. 450-1100--Texts.
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon--Sources.
Monasticism and religious orders--Rules.
Memetics.
Poetics.
England--Civilization--To 1066.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/7486736