| Brooks Britton Elliott | Last modified date：2024.04.09 |
Associate Professor /
Faculty of Languages and Cultures: Department of Multicultural Society /
Department of Multicultural Society /
Faculty of Languages and Cultures
Papers
| 1. | Britton Elliott Brooks , The Sound-World of Early Medieval England: A Case Study of the Exeter Book Storm Riddle, This is a book chapter in Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature, ed. by Mark Atherton, Kazutomo Karasawa, and Francis Leneghan, (Brepols, 2022, pp. 203–222., pp. 203–222., 2022.11. |
| 2. | Britton Elliott Brooks, ‘Biophonic Soundscapes in the Vitae of St Guthlac’, English Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2021.1886675, 102, 2, 155-179, 2021.03, [URL], This article explores the use of biophonic information in the primary vitae of one early English saint, Guthlac: Felix’s Latin Vita S. Guthlaci, the Old English Prose Life of Guthlac, and the Old English poems Guthlac A and Guthlac B. It reveals that the sounds created by various animals, from the croak of a raven to the bellowing of a bull, are utilised for two purposes in these texts: first, to disturb the saint, to shatter his eremitic pursuits and imitatio Christi; second, to highlight Guthlac’s successful maintenance of his stablitas in the face of such sonic attacks. This use of biophony speaks to hagiography more generally, and aims to provide a model for further study into the role of sound in Anglo-Latin and Old English literature.. |
| 3. | Britton Elliott Brooks , 'St Cuthbert as Lamp: the Ideal Gregorian Monk-Pastor in Bede’s metrical Vita sancti Cuthberti’, Peritia , DOI: 10.1484/J.PERIT.5.120980, 30, 53-70, 2020.10, [URL], This article argues that Bede advocated Gregory the Great’s ideal of the monk-pastor in his early Vita metrica S. Cudbercti, a role that Bede saw St Cuthbert as fulfilling. Part of the way Bede refashions Cuthbert into an idealised Gregorian monk-pastor is by means of lamp imagery directly connected with Jesus’s parable of the lamp under a bushel in the New Testament. Such a presentation of Cuthbert highlights Bede’s conception of the wider relevance of the saint; a depiction often discussed in terms of Bede’s later prose Vita S. Cudbercti and Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. This study reveals that these developments were well underway in Bede’s early metrical life of St Cuthbert.. |
| 4. | Britton Elliott Brooks, ‘Felix’s Construction of the English Fenlands: Literal Landscape, Authorizing Allusion, and Lexical Echo in his Vita Sancti Guthlaci', This is a Book Chapter in 'Guthlac: Crowland's Saint', ed. by Jane Roberts and Alan Thacker (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020)., 55-71, 2020.08. |
| 5. | Britton Elliott Brooks, 'Intimacy, Interdependence, and Interiority in the Old English Prose Boethius’, Neophilologus, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-018-9559-7, 102, 525-542, 2018.04, [URL], This article explores voice in the prose (B Text) version of the Old English Boethius. It argues that the Old English Boethius transforms the Socratic dialogue of its main Latin source, Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae, into an interdependent dialogue focused on the inner life. This transformation of the Old English Boethius fits into two categories: first, the initial split of voices that refocuses the first two-thirds of the text on Boethius’s mod; and second, the expansion of direct address to the audience by Wisdom. The Old English Boethius can, therefore, be read as a distinctly Anglo-Saxon philosophical pursuit, where the path to God is through the development of interdependent relationships.. |
| 6. | Britton Elliott Brooks , ‘A New Source for the Anonymous Vita S. Cuthberti’, Notes and Queries, https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjv112, 62, 3, 356-358, 2015.09, [URL]. |
| 7. | Britton Elliott Brooks, 'Tolkien’s Technique of Translation in his Prose Beowulf: Literalism and Literariness’, Mallorn, 55, 23-25, 2014.12, [URL]. |
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