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Papers by Clare A Lees
Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 1991
Yale University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2017
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Nov 29, 2012
Introduction: literature in Britain and Ireland, 500-1150 Clare A. Lees Part I. Word, Script and ... more Introduction: literature in Britain and Ireland, 500-1150 Clare A. Lees Part I. Word, Script and Image: 1. Writing in Britain and Ireland, 400-800 Julia M. H. Smith 2. The art of writing: scripts and scribal production Julia Crick 3. Art and writing: voice, image, object Catherine E. Karkov 4. Of Bede's 'Five Languages and Four Nations': the earliest writing from Ireland, Scotland and Wales Maire Ni Mhaonaigh 5. Insular Latin literature to 900 Rosalind Love 6. Bede and the northern kingdoms S. M. Rowley Part II. Early English Literature: 7. Across borders: Anglo-Saxon England and the Germanic world Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr 8. English literature in the ninth century Susan Irvine 9. The writing of history in the early Middle Ages: the Anglo-Saxon chronicle in context Renee R. Trilling 10. The literary languages of Old English: words, styles, voices Joshua Davies 11. Old English poetic form: genre, style, prosody Haruko Momma 12. Beowulf: a poem in our time Gillian R. Overing 13. Old English lyrics: a poetics of experience Kathleen Davis 14. Literature in pieces: female sanctity and the relics of early women's writing Diane Watt 15. Saintly lives: friendship, kinship, gender and sexuality L. M. C. Weston 16. Sacred history and Old English religious poetry Andrew Scheil 17. Performing Christianity: liturgical and devotional writing Christopher A. Jones 18. Riddles, wonder and responsiveness in Anglo-Saxon literature Patricia Dailey Part III. Latin Learning and the Literary Vernaculars: 19. In measure, and number, and weight: writing science R. M. Liuzza 20. Legal documentation and the practice of English law Lisi Oliver 21. Latinities, 893-1143 David Townsend 22. The authority of English, 900-1150 Elaine Treharne 23. Crossing the language divide: Anglo-Scandinavian language and literature Russell Poole 24. European literature and eleventh-century England Thomas O' Donnell, Matthew Townend and Elizabeth M. Tyler 25. Gaelic literature in Ireland and Scotland, 900-1150 Thomas Clancy 26. Writing in Welsh to 1150: re-creating the past, shaping the future Sioned Davies.
Exordia 1. A sense of place 2. Fragments: history and tradition 3. Style, and seeing ... as 4. Fo... more Exordia 1. A sense of place 2. Fragments: history and tradition 3. Style, and seeing ... as 4. Forms of difference 5. Fragments of Northumbria 6. Reckoning time 7. The Ruthwell Runes and The Dream of the Rood 8. The Northumbrian Cross: evidence and silence Spiritual things/material things
Studies in the Age of Chaucer
English: Shared Futures, 2018
South Atlantic Review, 2002
The Year's Work in English Studies, 1988
And so, finally, we thank all our students-always the best sounding-board for how ideas can trans... more And so, finally, we thank all our students-always the best sounding-board for how ideas can translate-and each other, for the long journey and continuing conversation.
The Yearbook of English Studies
This article offers a reading of the Life of Mary of Egypt that addresses issues of time, age, ge... more This article offers a reading of the Life of Mary of Egypt that addresses issues of time, age, gender and desire within this Old English saints’ life. Our concerns are not, however, limited to these themes within a specific early medieval text but they extend to the discipline of medieval literary studies more widely. Our work on this text, separately and collectively, prompts us to examine broader critical issues concerning temporality, gender, sexuality and medieval studies. We have a dual focus: we offer a rethinking of the Life of Mary of Egypt and we demonstrate how that rethinking has benefitted from our collaborative efforts to understand core questions about the field we study as scholars of Anglo-Saxon and later Medieval Studies. When were the Middle Ages? Whose Middle Ages are they? Are they the Middle Ages of Anglo-Saxonists as well? At what point do the Middle Ages of Anglo-Saxonists and Medievalists meet?
English: Shared Futures, 2018
Middle Ages without borders: a conversation on medievalism, 2021
The Review of English Studies, 2020
A Companion to Ælfric
This chapter takes up questions of language, belief and identity prompted by critical analysis of... more This chapter takes up questions of language, belief and identity prompted by critical analysis of the episode of Gregory and the Angles in its Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Latin reflexes in order to offer a more detailed interpretation of AElfric's Life of St. Gregory the Great than has hitherto been attempted. In Life , AElfric plays in English with Gregory's words and, in so doing, draws out the inner, moral dimension of the ever-vigilant Gregory whose very name records his watchfulness. The name of Gregory, AElfric reminds us, means vigilant or watchful: the vigilant Pope watches out for the opportunity to convert and watches over nations. The chapter engages not only with the centrality of the word in AElfric's writings but also with other issues relevant to contemporary AElfric studies. It examines what might be understood as AElfric's broader understanding of his own religious history, using the Life as its evidence. Keywords: AElfric; conversion; Life of St. Gregory the Great ; nations; vigilance
At King's, part of our interest in the "creative medieval" is of course... more At King's, part of our interest in the "creative medieval" is of course driven by a desire to increase the appeal of medieval studies among students, but we are also interested in the history of creativity in medieval studies, which we feel has often been overlooked. Translation and performance are at the heart of Anglo-Saxon Studies. A teacher of Old English needs to develop pedagogic skills to ensure that students feel comfortable taking creative risks—whether that is venturing a new translation, or simply voicing an unfamiliar word. So one of the aims of the projects described in this essay was to encourage early career researchers and teachers to think about how creativity is threaded through their academic practice. Another, broader, aim of the Spiral, was to invite the public at large to consider how the early medieval is threaded through the contemporary.
The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature
Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 1991
Yale University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2017
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Nov 29, 2012
Introduction: literature in Britain and Ireland, 500-1150 Clare A. Lees Part I. Word, Script and ... more Introduction: literature in Britain and Ireland, 500-1150 Clare A. Lees Part I. Word, Script and Image: 1. Writing in Britain and Ireland, 400-800 Julia M. H. Smith 2. The art of writing: scripts and scribal production Julia Crick 3. Art and writing: voice, image, object Catherine E. Karkov 4. Of Bede's 'Five Languages and Four Nations': the earliest writing from Ireland, Scotland and Wales Maire Ni Mhaonaigh 5. Insular Latin literature to 900 Rosalind Love 6. Bede and the northern kingdoms S. M. Rowley Part II. Early English Literature: 7. Across borders: Anglo-Saxon England and the Germanic world Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr 8. English literature in the ninth century Susan Irvine 9. The writing of history in the early Middle Ages: the Anglo-Saxon chronicle in context Renee R. Trilling 10. The literary languages of Old English: words, styles, voices Joshua Davies 11. Old English poetic form: genre, style, prosody Haruko Momma 12. Beowulf: a poem in our time Gillian R. Overing 13. Old English lyrics: a poetics of experience Kathleen Davis 14. Literature in pieces: female sanctity and the relics of early women's writing Diane Watt 15. Saintly lives: friendship, kinship, gender and sexuality L. M. C. Weston 16. Sacred history and Old English religious poetry Andrew Scheil 17. Performing Christianity: liturgical and devotional writing Christopher A. Jones 18. Riddles, wonder and responsiveness in Anglo-Saxon literature Patricia Dailey Part III. Latin Learning and the Literary Vernaculars: 19. In measure, and number, and weight: writing science R. M. Liuzza 20. Legal documentation and the practice of English law Lisi Oliver 21. Latinities, 893-1143 David Townsend 22. The authority of English, 900-1150 Elaine Treharne 23. Crossing the language divide: Anglo-Scandinavian language and literature Russell Poole 24. European literature and eleventh-century England Thomas O' Donnell, Matthew Townend and Elizabeth M. Tyler 25. Gaelic literature in Ireland and Scotland, 900-1150 Thomas Clancy 26. Writing in Welsh to 1150: re-creating the past, shaping the future Sioned Davies.
Exordia 1. A sense of place 2. Fragments: history and tradition 3. Style, and seeing ... as 4. Fo... more Exordia 1. A sense of place 2. Fragments: history and tradition 3. Style, and seeing ... as 4. Forms of difference 5. Fragments of Northumbria 6. Reckoning time 7. The Ruthwell Runes and The Dream of the Rood 8. The Northumbrian Cross: evidence and silence Spiritual things/material things
Studies in the Age of Chaucer
English: Shared Futures, 2018
South Atlantic Review, 2002
The Year's Work in English Studies, 1988
And so, finally, we thank all our students-always the best sounding-board for how ideas can trans... more And so, finally, we thank all our students-always the best sounding-board for how ideas can translate-and each other, for the long journey and continuing conversation.
The Yearbook of English Studies
This article offers a reading of the Life of Mary of Egypt that addresses issues of time, age, ge... more This article offers a reading of the Life of Mary of Egypt that addresses issues of time, age, gender and desire within this Old English saints’ life. Our concerns are not, however, limited to these themes within a specific early medieval text but they extend to the discipline of medieval literary studies more widely. Our work on this text, separately and collectively, prompts us to examine broader critical issues concerning temporality, gender, sexuality and medieval studies. We have a dual focus: we offer a rethinking of the Life of Mary of Egypt and we demonstrate how that rethinking has benefitted from our collaborative efforts to understand core questions about the field we study as scholars of Anglo-Saxon and later Medieval Studies. When were the Middle Ages? Whose Middle Ages are they? Are they the Middle Ages of Anglo-Saxonists as well? At what point do the Middle Ages of Anglo-Saxonists and Medievalists meet?
English: Shared Futures, 2018
Middle Ages without borders: a conversation on medievalism, 2021
The Review of English Studies, 2020
A Companion to Ælfric
This chapter takes up questions of language, belief and identity prompted by critical analysis of... more This chapter takes up questions of language, belief and identity prompted by critical analysis of the episode of Gregory and the Angles in its Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Latin reflexes in order to offer a more detailed interpretation of AElfric's Life of St. Gregory the Great than has hitherto been attempted. In Life , AElfric plays in English with Gregory's words and, in so doing, draws out the inner, moral dimension of the ever-vigilant Gregory whose very name records his watchfulness. The name of Gregory, AElfric reminds us, means vigilant or watchful: the vigilant Pope watches out for the opportunity to convert and watches over nations. The chapter engages not only with the centrality of the word in AElfric's writings but also with other issues relevant to contemporary AElfric studies. It examines what might be understood as AElfric's broader understanding of his own religious history, using the Life as its evidence. Keywords: AElfric; conversion; Life of St. Gregory the Great ; nations; vigilance
At King's, part of our interest in the "creative medieval" is of course... more At King's, part of our interest in the "creative medieval" is of course driven by a desire to increase the appeal of medieval studies among students, but we are also interested in the history of creativity in medieval studies, which we feel has often been overlooked. Translation and performance are at the heart of Anglo-Saxon Studies. A teacher of Old English needs to develop pedagogic skills to ensure that students feel comfortable taking creative risks—whether that is venturing a new translation, or simply voicing an unfamiliar word. So one of the aims of the projects described in this essay was to encourage early career researchers and teachers to think about how creativity is threaded through their academic practice. Another, broader, aim of the Spiral, was to invite the public at large to consider how the early medieval is threaded through the contemporary.
The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature
At King's, part of our interest in the "creative medieval" is of course driven by a desire to inc... more At King's, part of our interest in the "creative medieval" is of course driven by a desire to increase the appeal of medieval studies among students, but we are also interested in the history of creativity in medieval studies, which we feel has often been overlooked. Translation and performance are at the heart of Anglo-Saxon Studies. A teacher of Old English needs to develop pedagogic skills to ensure that students feel comfortable taking creative risks—whether that is venturing a new translation, or simply voicing an unfamiliar word. So one of the aims of the projects described in this essay was to encourage early career researchers and teachers to think about how creativity is threaded through their academic practice. Another, broader, aim of the Spiral, was to invite the public at large to consider how the early medieval is threaded through the contemporary.