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Of Kings and Cattle Thieves: The Rhetorical Work of the Fonthill Letter

Smith, Scott Thompson

Journal of English and Germanic philology, 2007-10, Vol.106 (4), p.447-467 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Urbana: University of Illinois Press

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  • Título:
    Of Kings and Cattle Thieves: The Rhetorical Work of the Fonthill Letter
  • Autor: Smith, Scott Thompson
  • Assuntos: Archives ; English literature ; Fathers ; Historical text analysis ; Kings ; Landowners ; Language history ; Latin language ; Letters ; Literacy ; Literary criticism ; Narratives ; Oaths ; Old English ; Philology ; Property ownership ; Property titles ; Prose ; Real property ; Sons ; Soul ; Thieves
  • É parte de: Journal of English and Germanic philology, 2007-10, Vol.106 (4), p.447-467
  • Descrição: The Fonthill Letter, an Old English account of a tenth-century Anglo-Saxon property dispute, has enjoyed significant scholarly attention in recent years. The Letter survives in an early tenth-century manuscript roughly contemporary with the events it records, which further increases its value as a social document. Despite its textual integrity, the Letter still presents certain difficulties to its readers. Smith examines the ways in which the text makes rhetorical use of the figure of King Alfred by surveying evidence from other contemporary sources in order to accentuate how the Letter appeals to contemporary issues of legitimate succession within the West-Saxon line of kings. The Fonthill Letter provides a valuable specimen of Old English prose composed independently of a Latin source text or a formal diplomatic model. Consequently, its composition would have been largely unrestricted by determining diplomatic conventions and hence open to strategic invention. Contemporary documentary evidence clarifies the skill of the Fonthill Letter in representing the past in the service of its larger argument.
  • Editor: Urbana: University of Illinois Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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