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On Ælfric and Old English Metrical Theory [PDF]
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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Teaching monastic masculinity with the Colloquy of Ælfric of Eynsham [PDF]
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 629-649, November 2023., 2023 I focus on the Colloquy of Ælfric of Eynsham to show how it contributed to gender formation by teaching boys not only Latin, but also what it meant to be a man of the monastery. I discuss how the professions the boys role‐played encouraged them to think of the monk as the most masculine option, and how verbal experimentation allowed their violent ...
Maroula Perisanidi
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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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Loss of MID in English: Free Peasantry and Their Linguistic Advantage
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 251-269, July 2023., 2023 Abstract The paper deals with the mysterious loss of a common preposition MID in the historical development of English. The issue is examined using a quantitative method combined with a historical sociolinguistic focus on the free peasantry in the East Midlands and Kent.
Rongkun Liu
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Re‐examining Hrabanus Maurus’ letter on incest and magic
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 252-273, May 2023., 2023 This article offers a reanalysis of Hrabanus’ mid‐ninth‐century text De magicis artibus. Often read and studied as a complete work, the De magicis artibus is in fact one portion of a longer text that also discusses incest and marriage practices. Furthermore, the single surviving copy of the text is deliberately attached to another work by Hrabanus, his
Matthew B. Edholm
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 95-121, February 2023., 2023 This article examines the meaning and function of the Old English noun reaflac in two tenth‐century lawsuit documents, Sawyer 877 and Sawyer 1211. It suggests that reaflac was the vernacular counterpart to the Latin terms violentia and rapina. Such connected terminology suggests that a collection of now lost tenth‐century Old English charters, like S ...
Brittany Hanlon
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 120, Issue 2, Page 320-331, July 2022., 2022 Abstract Focusing on metalinguistic sources and passages with words from the conceptual field of weather in cooccurrence (and including language contrasts), the study analyses whether changes in weather‐related lexemes in English language history, particularly words for “weather, condition of the air,” “cloud,” and “mist,” may be related to climatic ...
Joachim Grzega
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Early modern reader management: begin+infinitive as a discourse marker in P. C. Hooft’s Dutch prose
Renaissance Studies, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 691-712, September 2021., 2021 Abstract This article combines linguistic, rhetorical and material perspectives on early modern reader management in order to investigate how the Dutch historian P. C. Hooft (1581–1647) guided his readers through a new genre: humanist history written in the vernacular.
Cora van de Poppe
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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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Æthelstan, Wulfstan and a revised history of tithes in England
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 225-252, May 2021., 2021 The law‐text known as I Æthelstan is commonly accepted as the earliest evidence of a legal obligation to pay tithes in England. As it turns out, it might not be. The extant Old English version of I Æthelstan does indeed legislate for tithe payments.
Ingrid Ivarsen
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