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The Old English Poem Seasons for Fasting: A Critical Edition (WV MEDIEVEAL EUROPEAN STUDIES) by Mary P. Richards; Chad B. Hilton is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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"Seasons for Fasting," a late Old English poem probably composed in the early eleventh century, focuses on proper fasting observances in England. This poem, composed in eight-line stanzas, survives only in a sixteenth-century transcript made by the antiquary Laurence Nowell. With its topics, vocabulary, sources, and style derived from those of contemporary ecclesiastical prose, it belongs to a school of late tenth/early eleventh century poetry that only now is coming to be recognized and defined
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- Author
- Mary P. Richards; Chad B. Hilton
- Publisher
- Morgantown: West Virginia University Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781938228445
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Poetry, Literary Fiction, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-16
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