Language, Letters, and Augustinian Origins in the Old English Poetic Solomon and Saturn I

The Manuscripts of Solomon and Saturn: CCCC 41, CCCC 422, BL Cotton Vitellius A.xv

“…3 Certainly the laconic nature of the evidence, including the limitation of the written record to monastic scriptoria (i.e., there were no secular clerks offering copying services to the public) as well as the vicissitudes of time (the 1731 Cotton fire) in addition to the silence of medieval writers on whole topics of keen interest to us (such as vernacular metrics and literary aesthetics or such cultural issues as, say, sexual habits, or how people trained their dogs), might mean that multiple approaches are warranted, since any one might afford a new insight into the mostly-obscure landscape of the past, and, conversely, help avoid the fallacy of building up an entire model of a time based on one slender view alone-the classic problem of the blind men and the elephant. In addition to Anlezark's 2009 edition, see (Estes 2014;Major 2012;Olsen 2007;Powell 2005;Wade 2018;Beechy 2017Beechy , 2015. 5 See Anlezark (2009, pp.…”