{"title":"Identity, Affirmation, and Resistance in the Exeter Riddle Collection","authors":"C. Barajas","doi":"10.5117/9789463723824_ch03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463723824_ch03","url":null,"abstract":"The Exeter riddle collection imagines voices for the Earth community.\u0000 The bird riddles (6 and 7) exploit similarities between human and avian\u0000 behaviors to affirm the intrinsic worth of the Earth community even\u0000 when it makes humans uncomfortable. The horn riddles (12 and 76) give\u0000 voice to other-than-human beings celebrating their participation in\u0000 heroic culture: these riddles imagine that animal-objects find pleasure\u0000 and purpose in their “work”, despite removal from their natural state.\u0000 However, the wood-weapon riddles (3, 51, and 71) reveal an awareness\u0000 that conscription into human service is not always in the best interest of\u0000 the other-than-human. These thematic clusters suggest an interest in the\u0000 inherent worth, active voice, and purpose of the non-human natural world.","PeriodicalId":194115,"journal":{"name":"Old English Ecotheology","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115372552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mutual Custodianship in the Landscapes of Guðlac A","authors":"C. Barajas","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1xp9phj.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1xp9phj.9","url":null,"abstract":"Guðlac A details the eponymous saint’s relationships with the holy\u0000 landscape surrounding his hermitage and its other-than-human inhabitants.\u0000 The poem suggests that the work of Guðlac’s sainthood is\u0000 sustained devotion to the Earth community. As an exemplum of Old\u0000 English ecotheological living, Guðlac’s legend offers a challenge to the\u0000 concept of environmental “stewardship” of the Earth community in favor\u0000 of a model of mutual custodianship calls for sustained and deliberate\u0000 devotion to the created world for its own sake and as a manifestation of\u0000 the Creator’s love and glory. It also suggests that sustained engagement\u0000 with the natural world even in the face of environmental crisis or collapse\u0000 will be rewarded, in this life or the next.","PeriodicalId":194115,"journal":{"name":"Old English Ecotheology","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125484738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1xp9phj.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1xp9phj.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":194115,"journal":{"name":"Old English Ecotheology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130436243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Web of Creation in Wisdom Poems","authors":"C. Barajas","doi":"10.5117/9789463723824_ch02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463723824_ch02","url":null,"abstract":"Active engagement with the mysteries of creation was an important goal\u0000 of Old English wisdom poetry; these poems require audience understanding\u0000 of the interconnectedness of the Earth community. Exploring\u0000 kinship connections between human and other-than-human beings,\u0000 they anticipate modern ideas about the importance of exchange within\u0000 ecosystems. The Order of the World encourages active engagement with the\u0000 other-than-human as a means of praising the Creator. Maxims I, in turn,\u0000 serves as an example of one such poetic attempt, imagining a world in\u0000 which non-human forces act in familiar, rather than entirely threatening,\u0000 ways. The Order of the World and Maxims I suggests that early medieval\u0000 English thinkers understood and affirmed the interconnectedness of\u0000 the Earth community.","PeriodicalId":194115,"journal":{"name":"Old English Ecotheology","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125560853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Early Medieval Earth Consciousness","authors":"C. Barajas","doi":"10.5117/9789463723824_intro","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463723824_intro","url":null,"abstract":"The existential threat of environmental collapse loomed large in the\u0000 early medieval English imagination. In particular, the work of Wulfstan,\u0000 Archbishop of York and Ælfric of Eynsham pointed to the imminence of\u0000 the apocalypse. Wulfstan explicitly attributed environmental collapse\u0000 to human sin, while Ælfric urged the faithful to look hopefully to the\u0000 post-apocalyptic establishment of a new Earth. The broad audience and\u0000 didactic intent of these prolific and well-connected theologians makes\u0000 their work a useful representation of English theology at the turn of the\u0000 millennium. Similarly, the 10th-century manuscript called the Exeter\u0000 Book—the largest, most diverse extant collection of Old English poetry,\u0000 including religious lyrics, obscene riddles, and elegies—may serve as a\u0000 representative of the contemporaneous poetic corpus.","PeriodicalId":194115,"journal":{"name":"Old English Ecotheology","volume":"293 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125750219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Old English Ecotheology","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1xp9phj.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1xp9phj.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":194115,"journal":{"name":"Old English Ecotheology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124770420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index of Essential Old English Terms","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1xp9phj.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1xp9phj.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":194115,"journal":{"name":"Old English Ecotheology","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126695675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Old English Ecotheology","authors":"C. Barajas","doi":"10.5117/9789463723824_ch01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463723824_ch01","url":null,"abstract":"The work of Ælfric and Wulfstan, produced in the shadow of the first\u0000 millennium, in many ways anticipates the modern field of ecotheology,\u0000 born in the years preceding the second. Like their modern counterparts,\u0000 Ælfric and Wulfstan affirmed the interconnectedness of human and\u0000 other-than-human beings as members of an increasingly fragile Earth\u0000 community. They affirmed the intrinsic worth of the other-than-human,\u0000 and the ability of the Earth community to cry against injustice and resist\u0000 human domination. Crucially, Ælfric and Wulfstan also explicitly condemn\u0000 humanity’s failure to be faithful custodians of creation. Reading the\u0000 medieval texts against the modern demonstrates the existence of an Old\u0000 English ecotheology which anticipates many of the questions raised by\u0000 the current climate crisis.","PeriodicalId":194115,"journal":{"name":"Old English Ecotheology","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125161755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trauma and Apocalypse in the Eco-elegies","authors":"C. Barajas","doi":"10.5117/9789463723824_ch04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463723824_ch04","url":null,"abstract":"The Wanderer and The Ruin are productively read as eco-elegies: explorations\u0000 of changing relationships within the Earth community. The Wanderer\u0000 offers its audience an exemplary portrait of natural depression, a human\u0000 pattern of exile, emotional trauma, and acceptance which relies on\u0000 identification with the Earth community as a way of healing. The poem\u0000 affirms the idea that other-than-human elements of Earth community can\u0000 actively improve the mental state of their human neighbors and reconcile\u0000 apocalyptic loss. The Ruin contrasts this apocalyptic imagery with an\u0000 imagined future where the Earth community responds to, but ultimately\u0000 outlasts, the destruction of human societies. These eco-elegies encourage\u0000 audiences to consider the long view of Christian history, pacifying anxieties\u0000 about human relationships with other-than-human.","PeriodicalId":194115,"journal":{"name":"Old English Ecotheology","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116336370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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