The Apocryphal Adam and Eve in Medieval Europe: Vernacular Translations and Adaptations of the Vita Adae et Evae

Author:   Brian Murdoch (Emeritus Professor of German, University of Stirling)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199564149


Pages:   308
Publication Date:   02 April 2009
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Brian Murdoch (Emeritus Professor of German, University of Stirling)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.633kg
ISBN:  

9780199564149


ISBN 10:   0199564140
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   02 April 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1: Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Adambooks, and the Vita Adae et Evae 2: Ireland 3: England, Wales, and Cornwall 4: The Holy Roman Empire and Beyond 5: France, Brittany, and Italy 6: Iconography 7: Litteras achiliachas: Conclusion 8: Appendix: An Overview of the Vernacular Texts Bibliography Index

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Such a publication might even inspire non-specialists to start their own explorations into Adam and Eve's neglected past and the world of medieval storytelling or theology Times Literary Supplement


Such a publication might even inspire non-specialists to start their own explorations into Adam and Eve's neglected past and the world of medieval storytelling or theology Brian Murdoch, Times Literary Supplement


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Brian Murdoch is Professor Emeritus of German in the School of Languages, Cultures and Religions at the University of Stirling. He taught in Glasgow University and at the University of Illinois in Chicago before coming to Stirling in 1972. He has been Hulsean Lecturer in Divinity at Cambridge and Speaker's Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Oxford, and gave the Waynflete Lectures at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has held Visiting Fellowships at Magdalen and Oriel in Oxford and Trinity Hall in Cambridge. He has published books, editions and articles on the Adam-literature as found in Latin, German, English, Irish, Breton and Cornish, as well as other studies of biblical material, especially on the popular Bible in European vernaculars. He has also written books on Old High German, on Cornish literature, on the Germanic heroic epic, and on modern literature concerned with the world wars.

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