Early Middle Age literature - Britain and Northern Europe

'Dark Age' literature AD 500 - AD 1100. Covers the period of manuscripts in Old English as well as Latin. Stuff to do with the Arthur cycle is on another board. The board focuses on non-religious texts, especially poems.

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H C Earwicker

The Junius Manuscript (alias The Old English Genesis, or The Caedmon Manuscript) Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Junius 11, pp. 84-5 Ink on parchment; ff. 116; 320-325 x 180-190mm Biblical poetry; English England (Canterbury?); ca. 1000

Lindisfarne Gospels. Illuminated gospel written about 700AD by Eadfrith. When copies of similar books ended up in the Vatican the church did not believe they could have been made by uncultured Britons. <:((((><(

Religious manuscripts

Cantar de mio Cid - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

El Cid . Cantar de mio Cid .This MS dates from 1207 AD and is the earliest extant version of this epic poem, written in Old Spanish and held at La Conservado in La Biblioteca Nacional de España. Thought to have been composed around 1100 AD. <:((((><(

an old book with red writing on the page and two arrows pointing up at it

Taillefer and La Chanson de Roland, c. 1129 AD Bodleian Library MS. Taillefer was an already renowned minstrel who skillfully juggled his sword and sang the Song of Roland in 1066 AD before William and the outnumbered Norman knights at the Battle of Hastings. When finished he charged the Saxon lines alone and was brutally hacked down. This act of heroism inspired the Normans to victory. <:((((><(

bibliotheca Augustana

Waldere poem. One of two survivng fragments written in Old English of a lost 10th century epic poem by an unknown author. Found in the binding of a n Elizabethan book that found its way to Denmark after the reformation. The hero in the poem is found in another known 10th century epic about Walter of Aquitaine. <:((((><(

an old book with various symbols in the middle, including arrows and letters on it

Illuminated Manuscript

Book Of Shadows

Sacred Geometry

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Byrhtferth of Ramsey Enchiridion (Manual) written in Latin and Old English about 1011. It covers scientific research into numbers and nature as well as religious writings.

an old manuscript with writing on it and some type of writing in the bottom right corner

The Originals

Asser's Life of King Alfred written in AD 893. The original was lost in the Cotton collection fire of 1731 but a copy was made beforehand. <:((((><(

Alfred the Great and the Importance of the Oath

Beowulf manuscript

an old manuscript with writing on it and black ink in the middle, next to a white background

Maldon

Battle of Maldon poem. Thought to have been composed within 50 years of the battle which took place in AD 991. The only original, which was incomplete, was lost as part of the Cotton collection fire in 1731, but it had been copied (first page above). <:((((><(

an old book with writing on it and two lines of text in the bottom right corner

The Vercelli Book: a digital edition

an old book with some drawings on the pages and people walking around in front of it

Exhibitions

The Junius Manuscript (alias The Old English Genesis, or The Caedmon Manuscript) Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Junius 11, pp. 84-5 Ink on parchment; ff. 116; 320-325 x 180-190mm Biblical poetry; English England (Canterbury?); ca. 1000

Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

The Peterborough Chronicle, one of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles which began to be compiled in around 890 A.D., at the command of King Alfred the Great (871- 899) and consists of a series of annals written in the Old English language. <:((((><(