The seasons for fasting

Titre:
Date:	Vers le X^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:
Forme:	229 vers et demi, répartis en 29 strophes généralement de huit vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	Wæs on ealddagum Israheala folc þurh Moysen, mærne lareow, anlyht and gelared, swa hine lifes frea, heofna heahcyning, her on life…
Explicit:	… cweðað goddlife gumena gehwilcum þæt wines dreng welhwa mote, siþþan he mæssan hafað, meþig þicgan, etan ostran eac and oþerne fisc of flode

Manuscrits

London, British Library, Additional, 43703, f. 257r-260v
Transcription par Laurence Nowell en 1582 du texte contenu dans le ms. Cotton.
London, British Library, Cotton, Otho B. XI [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, edited by Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie, New York, Columbia University Press (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, 6), 1942, p. 98-104 et 194-198.
Holthausen, Ferdinand, « Ein altenglisches Gedicht über die Fastenzeiten », Anglia, 71, 1953, p. 191–201. DOI: 10.1515/angl.1953.1953.71.191
Greeson, Hoyt St. Clair, Jr., Two Old English Observance Poems: "Seasons for Fasting" and "The Menologium" — An Edition, Ph. D. dissertation, University of Oregon, 1970. [PQ]
Hilton, Chadwick Buford, Jr., An Edition and Study of the Old English "Seasons for Fasting", Ph. D. dissertation, University of Tennessee, 1984. [PQ]
Old English Shorter Poems. I. Religious and Didactic, edited and translated by Christopher A. Jones, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2012, xl + 456 p.
The Old English Poem Seasons for Fasting: a critical edition edited by Mary P. Richards with the assistance of Chadwick B. Hilton, Jr., Morgantown, West Virginia University Press (Medieval European Studies, 15), 2014, x + 182 p.

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Richards et Hilton 2014 (voir sous Éditions modernes)

Études

Donoghue, Daniel, How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press (The Middle Ages Series), 2018, [v] + 238 p.
Compte rendu:
Tiffany Beechy, dans The Medieval Review, 19.02.07, 2019. [www]
Flower, R., « Laurence Nowell and a recovered Anglo-Saxon poem », The British Museum Quarterly, 8:4, 1934, p. 130-132. DOI: 10.2307/4421620
Flower, Robin, « Laurence Nowell and the discovery of England in Tudor times », Proceedings of the British Academy, 21, 1935, p. 47-73.
Grant, R. J. S., « A note on The Seasons for Fasting », The Review of English Studies, 23, 1972, p. 302-304. DOI: 10.1093/res/XXIII.91.302
Grant, Raymond J. S., « Laurence Nowell's transcript of BM Cotton Otho B. XI », Anglo-Saxon England, 3, 1974, p. 111-124. DOI: 10.1017/s0263675100000624
Grimaldi, Maria, « The Seasons for Fasting », AION: Filologia germanica, 24, 1981, p. 71-92.
Heyworth, P. L., « The Old English Seasons of Fasting », Mediæval Studies, 26, 1964, p. 358-359. DOI: 10.1484/j.ms.2.306725
Hilton, Chadwick B., « The Old English Seasons for Fasting: its place in the vernacular complaint tradition », Neophilologus, 70:1, 1986, p. 155-159. DOI: 10.1007/bf00217514
Jones, Christopher A., « Another echo of Gregory's Regula pastoralis in the Old English Seasons for Fasting », Notes and Queries, n. s., 59:4, 2012, p. 470-476. [www] DOI: 10.1093/notesj/gjs157
Klaeber, Fr., « Eine kleine Nachlese zu altenglischen Dichtungen », Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 72, 1950, p. 126-130. DOI: 10.1515/bgsl.1950.1950.72.126
Leslie, Roy F., « Textual notes on The Seasons for Fasting », The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 52:4, 1953, p. 555-558. [jstor.org]
Richards, Mary P., « Prosaic poetry: late Old English poetic composition », Old English and New: Studies in Language and Linguistics in Honor of Frederick G. Cassidy, éd. J. Hall, N. Doane et D. Ringler, New York et London, 1992, p. 63-75.
Richards, Mary P., « Old wine in a new bottle: recycled instructional materials in Seasons for Fasting », The Old English Homily: Precedent, Practice, and Appropriation, éd. A. J. Kleist, Turnhout, Brepols, 2007, p. 345-364.
Schabram, Hans, « The Seasons for Fasting 206f. Mit einem Beitrag zur ae. Metrik », Britannica: Festschrift für Hermann M. Flasdieck, éd. W. Iser et H. Schabram, Heidelberg, 1960, p. 221-240.
Schabram, Hans, « Zur Interpretation der 18. Strophe des altenglischen Gedichts The Seasons for Fasting », Anglia, 110, 1992, p. 296-306. DOI: 10.1515/angl.1992.1992.110.296
Sisam, K., Studies in the History of Old English Literature, Oxford, Clarendon, 1953, p. 45-60.
Stanley, E. G., « Old English poetic vocabulary: "The formal word precise but not pedantic" », Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic in Honor of Raymond J. Tripp, Jr., éd. L. C. Gruber, Lewiston, 2000, p. 177-200.
Stapleton, Paul J., « Identifying the twelfe runa in the Old English Seasons for Fasting », Notes and Queries, n. s., 59:3, 2012, p. 310-314. [www] DOI: 10.1093/notesj/gjs157
Whitbread, L., « Notes on the Seasons for Fasting », Notes and Queries, 191:12, 1946, p. 249-252. DOI: 10.1093/nq/191.12.249
Whitbread, L., « Four notes on Old English poems », English Studies, 44, 1963, p. 187-190. DOI: 10.1080/00138386308597170

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