How Tradition Works: A Meme-based Cultural Poetics of the Anglo-Saxon Tenth CenturyArizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006 - 333 pages How tradition works -- Why memetics? -- The English Benedictine reform : a concise summary -- The rule of St. Benedict, the Regularis concordia, and the memetic basis of reform culture -- Anglo-Saxon wills and the inheritance of tradition -- Repetition, pattern recognition, tradition, and style -- The interplay of traditions : style and the Old English translation of the enlarged rule of Chrodegang -- The Exeter Book wisdom poems and the Benedictine reform -- The vocabulary of the wisdom poems and the Chrodegang translation. |
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