ENGLSH 1060 Lecture 9: heroes 2-14
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My apologies for the delay on tuesday (cid:1006)/(cid:1005)4"s notes. I was ill and could not make it to class. Here are the notes for 2/14 that i acquired from professor kramer: 30,000 lines of poetry survive and lots of prose (sermons, laws, religious treatises, and much more: as a predominant culture and society, anglo-saxon england lasted from ca. 450-1066: part of the middle ages: ca. Some terms: old english, anglo-saxon, anglo-saxon england, anglo-latin, vernacular. The manuscript: the text of beowulf survives in a single copy in a medieval manuscript, manuscript is dated to late 10th or early 11th century, shelf-mark (the official name ): British library, ms cotton vitellius a. xv in london: cotton : the ms. was part of a famous collection compiled by sir robert bruce cotton (1571- 1631): the cotton collection was passed down through several generations, by the early 18th century, the collection was stored at the unfortunately named ashburnham.
