Speaking Two Languages: Traditional Disciplines and Contemporary Theory in Medieval Studies

Speaking Two Languages
	Contents
	Acknowledgments
	Preface
	Chapter 1 Prologue: Documents and Monuments: Difference and Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Medi...
		Discipline and Identity
		Interdisciplinarity and Difference
		Archaeology and Deconstruction
		Documents and Monuments
		Beowulf and Sutton Hoo
		The City and the Village
		Cultural Criticism
	Chapter 2 On Reading Eve: Genesis B and the Readers' Desire
		On Reading
		On Reading Eve
		Eve meets Oedipus, or
		Further Reading
	Chapter 3 Beowulf and the Origins of Civilization
		Two Languages
		Why Beowulf?
		Hero to Hero
		The Riddle of Beowulf
		Further Reading
	Chapter 4 The Plot of Piers Plowman and the Contradictions of Feudalism
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		Further Reading
	Chapter 5 The Language of Transgression: Body, Flesh, and Word in Mystical Discourse
		The Fissured Flesh
		The Sealed Body
		Abjection: The Broken Seal
		Angela of Foligno
		Further Reading
	Chapter 6 Texts That Speak to Readers Who Hear: Old English Poetry and the Languages of Oral Traditi...
		Critical History
		Oral Traditional Structure
		Aesthetic Implications and Reception Theory
		Conclusion
		Further Reading
	Chapter 7 Working with Patristic Sources: Language and Context in Old English Homilies
		Research Models
			Canon Formation
			Translation and Interpretation: Attitudes and Authority
			Texts, Sources, and History
			Belief
		Old English Prose in the Curriculum
		Conclusion
		Further Reading
	Chapter 8 Medieval Textuality and the Archaeology of Textual Culture
		Introduction: Considering the Literary Archive
		Textual Archaeology: Lexicon, Gloss, Compilation, Library, Encyclopedia
		Writing the Oral: Textual Culture and Orality
		Cædmon as Glossator: The Illiteratus in the Monastic Textual Community
		King Alfred's Description of Compilatio
		Brunanburh and the Chronicle Poems: Textualization, Ideology, Nostalgia
		Conclusion: The Archaeology of Textual Knowledge
		Further Reading
	Chapter 9 Epilogue: De Scientia Interpretandi: Oral Tradition and the Place of Other Theories in the...
		The Pidgin
			Die Muttersprache
		The Languages of the Bazaar
		A Chapter's-End Exercise
	Notes
		Preface
		Chapter 1. Prologue: Documents and Monuments:  Difference and Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Me...
		Chapter 2. On Reading Eve: Genesis B and the Readers' Desire
		Chapter 3. Beowulf and the Origins of Civilization
		Chapter 4. The Plot of Piers Plowman and the Contradictions of Feudalism
		Chapter 5. The Language of Transgression:  Body, Flesh, and Word in Mystical Discourse
		Chapter 6. Texts That Speak to Readers Who Hear:  Old English Poetry and the Languages of Oral Tradi...
		Chapter 7. Working with Patristic Sources:  Language and Content in Old English Homilies
		Chapter 8. Medieval Textuality and the Archaeology of Textual Culture
		Chapter 9. Epilogue: De Scientia Interpretandi:  Oral Tradition and the Place of Other Theories in t...
	Contributors
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