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- Title
‘As the Lawbook Teaches’: Reeves, Lawbooks and Urban Life in the Anonymous Old English Legend of the Seven Sleepers*.
- Authors
Cubitt, Catherine
- Abstract
A literary criticism of the anonymous Old English translation of the "Legend of the Seven Sleepers" is presented. Particular attention is given to the manuscript's description of Anglo-Saxon urban life. The manuscript includes a reference to the guidance of the lawbook (domboc) in the punishment of a criminal.
- Subjects
CRITICISM; LEGEND of the Seven Sleepers (Book); URBAN life in literature; PUNISHMENT in literature; CRIMINALS in literature; OLD English literature; LITERARY criticism; ENGLISH literature
- Publication
English Historical Review, 2009, Vol 124, Issue 510, p1021
- ISSN
0013-8266
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/ehr/cep220