Anhyld þinre heortan eare: Mind as Body in the Sermons of Ælfric
Open Library of Humanities, 2023 By using a metaphor of the mind as body, with eyes, and ears, a throat and voice, Ælfric explains the complexities of an Augustinian understanding of the mind in comparatively simple terms, to lead: ‘those who dwell in cities and towns and villages ...
Eleni Ponirakis
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The audience for Old English texts: Ælfric, rhetoric and ‘the edification of the simple’ [PDF]
, 2014 There is a persistent view that Old English texts were mostly written to be read or heard by people with no knowledge of Latin, or little understanding of it, especially the laity.
Helen Gittos
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Blunder, Error, Mistake, Pitfall: Trawling the OED with the Help of the Historical Thesaurus [PDF]
Altre Modernità, 2017 The paper considers the lexis of error and examines its use across time in relation to the writing and spelling of English, to grammar and pronunciation. Discussion focuses first on the earliest records of notions of correctness in English language usage,
Jane Roberts, Louise Sylvester
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On Ælfric and Old English Metrical Theory
SELIMIn 2016, Thomas A. Bredehoft wrote a reply to my criticism of his theory of Old English metre, according to which Ælfric's rhythmical compositions ought to be considered verse rather than prose.
Rafael J. Pascual
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Holiness and Hopefulness: The Monastic and Lay Audiences of Abbo of Fleury's Passio Sancti Eadmundi and Ælfric of Eynsham's Life of St. Edmund, King and Martyr [PDF]
, 2015 Timothy Russell Jordan
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BOOK REVIEW: WULFSTAN, "OLD ENGLISH LEGAL WRITINGS", ED. AND TRANS. ANDREW RABIN. (DUMBARTON OAKS MEDIEVAL LIBRARY 66.) CAMBRIDGE, MA: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020. PP. XXXIX, 439. [PDF]
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2023 Perhaps the best documented fact about Archbishop Wulfstan of York is that he is not sufficiently documented at all. Second perhaps only to Ælfric of Eynsham in his theological endeavours, Wulfstan (d.
Andrei CRIȘAN
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Ælfric’s Expressions for Shame and Guilt: A Study in Intra-Writer Conceptual Variation
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2021 This research focuses on the analysis of onomasiological variation in Old English texts written by Ælfric; more specifically, I am interested in the study of the different motifs that shape the linguistic expressions of shame and guilt used by this Anglo-
Díaz-Vera Javier E.
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Pietro e Simon Mago sul confine tra miracolo e magia nelle omelie in inglese antico
Lea, 2023 In the Old English homiletic tradition, the apocryphal material relating to the struggle between Peter and Simon Magus offers a useful paradigm for representing the boundary between miracle and magic.
Carla Riviello
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Mann and gender in Old English prose : a pilot study [PDF]
, 2016 It has long been known that OE mann was used in gender-neutral as well as gender-specific contexts. Because of the enormous volume of its attestations in Old English prose, the more precise usage patterns of mann remain, however, largely uncharted, and ...
Rauer, Christine
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Exploring Continuities and Discontinuities Between Ælfric's and its Antique Sources [PDF]
, 2009 International audienceThis paper explores the extent to which the tenth-century English scholar Ælfric, author of a grammatical treatise known to us as Ælfric's , differed from his sources, the late antique grammarians Donatus and Priscian, (1) in his ...
Toupin, Fabienne
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