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In Enigmate : The History of a Riddle, 400-1500 by Erin Sebo (2018, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherFour Courts Press

ISBN-101846826349

ISBN-139781846826344

eBay Product ID (ePID)237477204

Product Key Features

Book TitleIn Enigmate : the History of a Riddle, 400-1500

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2018

TopicMedieval, Form / Jokes & Riddles

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Humor

AuthorErin Sebo

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight16.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal398.6

SynopsisThis is a study of a single riddle as it is transmitted, translated, and transformed over more than a thousand years. Beginning with the influential late-antique riddle text Aenigmata Symphosii , In enigmate charts an arc through the extraordinary popularity of riddles in Anglo-Saxon England, their decline as a learned literary form after the Norman conquest, their emergence in early modern ballads, and beyond. At the center of this study is the Creation riddle, perhaps the best-known riddle in early England. Versions of it survive in both popular and elite literature, and because it is constructed around an enigmatic description of Creation, it reveals changing cosmological and cosmographical conceptions as it is retold and reimagined. More interesting, perhaps, are popular versions of the riddle, which offer a glimpse of how Creation was imagined outside the scholarly class. Together, the iterations of this riddle represent a unique opportunity to study the imaginary geography of medieval society as it changed over time.

LC Classification NumberPN6371