The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium) Karasawa Hardback D. S. Brewer

The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium)Author(s): Kazutomo Karasawa\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: D.S. Brewer\nISBN-13: 9781843844099, 978-1843844099\nSynopsis\nFirst modern text and English translation of an important Anglo-Saxon poem dealing with the liturgical year.\n\nWINNER of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists 2017 Publication Prize: Best Edition\n\n The late tenth-century Old English Metrical Calendar (traditionally known as Menologium) summarises, in the characteristicheroic diction and traditional metre of Old English poetry, the major course of the Anglo-Saxon liturgical year. It sets out, in a methodical structure based on the basic temporal framework of the solar/natural year, the locations of the major feasts widely observed in late Anglo-Saxon England. Such a work could have been a practical timepiece for reading the dates of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, for which it serves as a kind of prologue in the [u.