Undoing Babel - 9781487500542

Undoing BabelThe Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature\nAuthor(s): Tristan Major\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487500542, 978-1487500542\nSynopsis\nThe Tower of Babel narrative is one of the most memorable accounts of the Bible, and its interpretative potential has produced a vast array of literary adaptations.\n\n Undoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel narrative amongst Anglo-Saxon authors from late antiquity to the eleventh century. Tristan Majors illuminating and original insight into Anglo-Latin and Old English works, including the writings of Aldhelm, Bede, Alcuin, lfric, and Wulfstan, reveals the cultural ideologies and anxieties that transformed the Babel narrative. In doing so, Major argues that these Babel narratives provide a basis for understanding the worlds ethnic and linguistic diversity as well as a theological stimulus to evangelize non-.