{"product_id":"old-english-poems-of-christ-mary-clayton-9780674053182","title":"Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints","description":"\u003cp\u003eReligious piety has rarely been animated as vigorously as in \u003ci\u003eOld English Poems of Christ and His Saints\u003c\/i\u003e. Ranging from lyrical to dramatic to narrative, the individual poems show great inventiveness in reimagining perennial Christian topics. In different poems, for example, Christ expels Lucifer from heaven, resists the devil's temptation on earth, mounts the cross with zeal to face death, harrows hell at the urging of John the Baptist, appears in disguise to pilot a ship, and presides over the Last Judgment. Satan and the fallen angels lament their plight in a vividly imagined hell and plot against Christ and his saints. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAndreas\u003c\/i\u003e the poet relates, in language reminiscent of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e, the tribulations of the apostles Andrew and Matthew in a city of cannibals. In \u003ci\u003eThe Vision of the Cross\u003c\/i\u003e (also known as \u003ci\u003eThe Dream of the Rood\u003c\/i\u003e), the cross speaks as a Germanic warrior intolerably torn between the imperative to protect his Lord and the duty to become his means of execution. In \u003ci\u003eGuthlac A\u003c\/i\u003e, an Anglo-Saxon warrior abandons his life of violence to do battle as a hermit against demons in the fens of Lincolnshire. As a collection these ten anonymous poems vividly demonstrate the extraordinary hybrid that emerges when traditional Germanic verse adapts itself to Christian themes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOld English Poems of Christ and His Saints\u003c\/i\u003e complements the saints' lives found in \u003ci\u003eThe Old English Poems of Cynewulf, \u003c\/i\u003eDOML 23.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Clayton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674053184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674053182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.60w x 1.20d","brand":"Mary Clayton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46747870232831,"sku":"9780674053182","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b26e157b-0f0b-414e-a907-04ce7c7deec4.jpg?v=1743584971","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/old-english-poems-of-christ-mary-clayton-9780674053182","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}