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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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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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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.
Gittos, Helen
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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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Three Welsh kings and Rome: royal pilgrimage, overlordship, and Anglo‐Welsh relations in the early Middle Ages

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 560-591, November 2020., 2020
This article investigates the motivations behind royal pilgrimage to Rome in the early Middle Ages by examining the journeys of three Welsh kings (Cyngen ap Cadell in 854, Hywel in 886, and Hywel Dda in 928). These journeys have rarely been considered as a group, and in bringing them together this article proposes a new interpretation of Welsh royal ...
Rebecca Thomas
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Lights, power and the moral economy of early medieval Europe

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 367-387, August 2020., 2020
By the beginning of the early Middle Ages the convention that each church should have a light burning at all times on the altar was strongly established. This paper examines how elites promulgated this idea and benefitted from their ability to furnish lighting material (oil and wax) when this was becoming scarce and expensive.
Paul Fouracre
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Emotional Communities in Ælfric’s Maccabees [PDF]

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2018
The present article studies Ælfric of Eynsham’s homily based on the biblical books of Maccabees. It uses Barbara H. Rosenwein’s concept of an “emotional community” to elucidate Ælfric’s treatment of anger and violence in the process of adapting the ...
Jacek Olesiejko
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Guest Editors' Introduction: Teaching Medieval Literature off the Grid [PDF]

, 2013
Introduction to special issue of the journal Pedagogy: Teaching Medieval Literature off the ...
Gina Brandolino, Nathanial Smith
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On Ælfric and Old English Metrical Theory

SELIM
In 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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