Landscape Gardening: Remodelling the Hortus Conclusus in Judgement Day II
Landscape Gardening: Remodelling the Hortus Conclusus in Judgement Day II
The Old English poet who translated the Latin De Die Iudicii into the Old English Judgement Day II made some distinctive changes to the mis-en-scène of the earlier poem. The arboreal setting of De Die Iudicii, which appears to have been constructed with the hortus conclusus of the Song of Songs in mind, was altered in Judgement Day II in order to appeal more directly to the cultural imagination of a tenth-century Anglo-Saxon audience in the poetry of the vernacular. This essay will argue that certain elements of this modification had their roots in pre-Christian Germanic religious practices
trees, woodland, belief, religion, conversion, hortus conclusus
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Bintley, Mike
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1 February 2011
Bintley, Mike
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Bintley, Mike
(2011)
Landscape Gardening: Remodelling the Hortus Conclusus in Judgement Day II.
Review of English Studies, 62 (253), .
(doi:10.1093/res/hgq028).
Abstract
The Old English poet who translated the Latin De Die Iudicii into the Old English Judgement Day II made some distinctive changes to the mis-en-scène of the earlier poem. The arboreal setting of De Die Iudicii, which appears to have been constructed with the hortus conclusus of the Song of Songs in mind, was altered in Judgement Day II in order to appeal more directly to the cultural imagination of a tenth-century Anglo-Saxon audience in the poetry of the vernacular. This essay will argue that certain elements of this modification had their roots in pre-Christian Germanic religious practices
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Published date: 1 February 2011
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trees, woodland, belief, religion, conversion, hortus conclusus
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/488167
ISSN: 0034-6551
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