Medievalists.net » Exeter Book http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Sexual Riddles of the Exeter Book http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/26/the-sexual-riddles-of-the-exeter-book/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/26/the-sexual-riddles-of-the-exeter-book/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:33:32 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40106 Among the Exeter Book riddle collection there is a group more or less explicitly of riddles which deals sex.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/26/the-sexual-riddles-of-the-exeter-book/feed/ 0 Contemplating the Evolution of Medieval Double-Entendre Literature http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/10/contemplating-the-evolution-of-medieval-double-entendre-literature/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/10/contemplating-the-evolution-of-medieval-double-entendre-literature/#comments Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:59:29 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39729 The linguistic composition of the Exeter Book Riddles supports this, and in fact, the genre became a refuge for contemporary colloquial speech which was seen as coarse and lower class within the ideologies of Christianity and Germanic heroism.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/10/contemplating-the-evolution-of-medieval-double-entendre-literature/feed/ 0 A Christological reading of The Ruin http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/30/a-christological-reading-of-the-ruin/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/30/a-christological-reading-of-the-ruin/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2012 04:28:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38427 We should be aware that the semantic scope of each word may vary drastically and that the reader is influenced by many variables in attaching the meaning to a given word. The question becomes trickier if we take the allegorical viewpoint, because polysemy is concerned with the entire text, not with just a word. Thus, we should not consider the surface meaning of the words, but look more carefully for the covert meanings.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/30/a-christological-reading-of-the-ruin/feed/ 0 ‘In the Beginning’: The London Medieval Graduate Network Inaugural Conference http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/13/37100/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/13/37100/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:55:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37100 This is a summary of the The London Medieval Graduate Network Inaugural Conference by Rachel Scott. The conference was held on November 2nd at King's College London.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/13/37100/feed/ 0 Bridging the Gap: Finding a Valkyrie in a Riddle http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/07/bridging-the-gap-finding-a-valkyrie-in-a-riddle/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/07/bridging-the-gap-finding-a-valkyrie-in-a-riddle/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:53:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=25113 Bridging the Gap: Finding a Valkyrie in a Riddle  Culver, Jennifer (University of North Texas) M.A. Thesis, University of North Texas, May (2007) Abstract While many riddles exist in the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book containing female characters, both as actual human females and personified objects and aspects of nature, few scholars have discussed how the anthropomorphized […]

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