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Bede’s Cædmon: A bilingual scop from the cosmopolitan court of Oswiu?

Data publikacji: 21.11.2024

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2024, Volume 141, Issue 4, s. 279 - 290

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.24.016.20466

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William Sayers
Cornell University, Ithaca
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Tytuły

Bede’s Cædmon: A bilingual scop from the cosmopolitan court of Oswiu?

Abstrakt

In a revisionist reading of Bede’s account of the miraculous transformation of the lay brother Cædmon into a skilled poet in the Anglo-Saxon vernacular, this essay proposes that his bicultural origins (British, Anglo-Saxon) and poetic skill won him patronage in the retinue of King Oswiu of Northumbria, promoter of the Christian mission of conversion and Hiberno-Latin learning, and founder of the Abbey of Whitby, to which his elderly retainer would have been retired. The adjustments to the story found in Bede, most importantly the omission of Cædmon’s early secular career, enhance his framing story of divine intervention in the birthing of a vernacular poet through a sequence of architectural contexts that are reflected on the greater scale in Cædmon’s own creation poem. Bede’s account of the poet and the chapters that bracket it in the Historia illustrate his overriding concern for Church reform.

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Informacje

Informacje: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2024, Volume 141, Issue 4, s. 279 - 290

Typ artykułu: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy

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Publikacja: 21.11.2024

Status artykułu: Otwarte __T_UNLOCK

Licencja: CC BY  ikona licencji

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