<i>Homo contemplans: The Order of the World</i>, Gregorian Contemplative Anthropology, and Old English Poetics
Jacob Riyeff
This essay considers Old English poetics through the lens of Gregory Great’s contemplative anthropology, which understands experience contemplation as intrinsic to being a human person and so also reader. Such perspective on reading depends upon its situation within particular community common knowledge base, it relies poets’ disciplined sharing their well readers’disciplined reception texts. I relate this account function vernacular religious poetry specific context Anglo-Saxon England new poem The Order World, draw both scholars literature contemporary monastics for my interpretive framework. in ecclesial developed here brings into greater focus utility reason much extant an acknowledgement social functions Christian community.
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