Dr%20Hannah%20McKendrick%20Bailey: List of publications
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St Rumwold in the borderland
December 2022
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Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature
SBTMR
Introduction to architectural representation in medieval England
May 2018
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Journal article
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Leeds Studies in English
Architecture is a special and important category of evidence for our understanding of medieval England; it is not only one of the most tangible categories of evidence for the period, but also one of the most accessible. The architectural remnants of the Middle Ages — from castles and cathedrals to village churches — provide many people’s first and most lasting point of contact with the medieval period and its culture. Such concrete survivals provide a direct link to the material experiences of medieval people, as well as to the ideologies and social or cultural practices which framed their lives.
Architecture as authoritative reader: splitting stones in Andreas and Christ III
January 2017
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Journal article
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Leeds Studies in English
Typology and subjectivity in Faulkner and Beowulf
January 2017
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Navigating the Transnational in Modern American Literature and Culture
There is a particularly strong analogy of both form and content between Beowulf and those novels by William Faulkner most deeply engaged with the Old Testament: Absalom, Absalom! and Go Down, Moses. Michael Lapidge compares Beowulf's technique of relating incomplete versions of an event through multiple perspectives to Faulkner's method of narration in The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying. Beowulf was written by a Christian in Anglo-Saxon England, but takes place in a pagan society in fifth- to sixth-century Scandinavia. Both Faulkner and the Beowulf poet place fictional, semi-mythical central characters among real places, people, and events with which they expect their readers to be familiar. Within a contemporary American cultural context, no research is required to establish the reality of Harvard University, William Tecumseh Sherman, or the 1940 census. Go Down, Moses is primarily about brothers, but reading it alongside Beowulf calls attention to a prominent secondary thread of uncle-nephew relationships especially the maternal side.
Heahgetimbru: A Reassessment of Christ III ll. 972–6
August 2016
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Journal article
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Notes and Queries
A misunderstanding of the referent of the compound heahgetimbru in l. 973b of Christ III has resulted in confusion over the denotation of the sentence in which it appears and also obscured the artistry in the structure of the larger passage in which it appears.
Memory, sight and love in Cynewulf's Elene
June 2016
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Journal article
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English Studies
It is conventionally assumed that Cynewulf is not interested in depicting any psychological realism in his characters, only figural truths, and that Elene is structured around a binary opposition such as that between the letter and the spirit. In fact, Cynewulf does create characters whose actions are psychologically plausible on a literal level, if we accept that psychology is influenced by culture. Cynewulf does not depict a spiritual development that is oppositional, or which adheres to ideas of hierarchies of cognition, but one which is holistic and tripartite, and which resembles Augustine’s trinity of the soul. Each character encounters the Cross through learning, experience and the grace of rewarded receptivity. They can gain each of these three modes of understanding in any order, but it is only when they have united all three that they receive affective wisdom from the Holy Ghost.
poetry, Augustine, cross, psychology, Cynewulf, Elene, mind, Old English, Gregory
Conquest by Word: The Meeting of Languages in Laȝamon’s Brut
July 2013
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Reading Laȝamon’s Brut: Approaches and Explorations
Architectural Representation in Medieval England (Special Issue)
Other
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Leeds Studies in English
Architectural Representation in Medieval Textual and Material Culture