Results 21 to 30 of about 1,907 (130)

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
doaj  

The Battle of Maldon y St. Edmund. Una aproximación pragmática desde la teoría de la cortesía lingüística

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 1994
Este trabajo analiza, desde el punto de vista de la pragmática literaria, y más concretamente desde la teoría de la cortesía lingüística, dos textos del inglés antiguo: el poema heroico La batalla de Maldon y la narración en prosa de Aelfric sobre la ...
Pilar Garcés Conejos, Julia Fernández Cuesta   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
core   +1 more source

Change from Above, Language Contact, and Individual Change in Ælfric’s Linguistic Terminology

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2019
The paper focuses on linguistic terminology used by Ælfric (10th c.) in his translation of an anonymous Latin grammar (Excerptiones de arte grammatica anglicе) going back to Priscian and Donatus’ works.
Yakovenko Yekaterina
doaj   +1 more source

Ælfric’s Preface to Genesis: Commentary with Text, Translation, Sources and Analogues and Parallel Passages in Ælfric’s Works

SELIM
The language of Genesis is simple, says Ælfric in his preface to his translation of it, but its meaning is complex. Exactly the same is true of his preface—which therefore calls out for detailed interpretation, just as, in his view, does this book of ...
Mark Griffith
doaj   +3 more sources

Social ties and negotiation of lexical norms in Old English: The vocabularies of vices

Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology
This paper aims to document the coinage and diffusion of sin-lexemes and to evaluate the extent of their regional, chronological, and social reach. It starts by tracing the genesis of these concepts and lexemes in Latin and Old English texts, with a ...
Olga Timofeeva, Christine Wallis
doaj   +1 more source

Augustine’s tractates on John and the homilies of Ælfric

Filologia Germanica
Augustine of Hippo’s In Iohannis Evangelium Tractatus CXXIV was extensively used by Bede and the Carolingian homilists and commentators of the exegetical tradition to which Ælfric belonged.
Joyce Hill
doaj   +1 more source

Le Omelie Blickling nella produzione omiletica anglosassone

Filologia Germanica
Ms. Princeton, University Library, William H. Scheide Collection 71 transmits a collection of eighteen homilies. For their form and content, the Blickling Homilies have long been considered far from the spiritual guidelines of the Benedictine ...
Giuseppe D. De Bonis
doaj   +1 more source

El deseo de fama en la épica anglosajona y las vidas de santos ingleses de Aelfric

Estudios Humanísticos. Filología, 1994
El deseo de fama como rasgo caracterizador de los héroes de los poemas épicos en inglés antiguo, pertenece asimismo a la tipología de los santos ingleses de AElfric: San Swituno, San Edmundo, San Oswaldo, San Albano y Santa AEtheldreda. Para San Agustín,
Pedro González Abascal
doaj   +1 more source

THE CONCEPT OF THE THREE ORDERS OF SOCIETY IN LATE OLD ENGLISH PROSE

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia
The Concept of the Three Orders of Society in Late Old English Prose. Between the years 991 and 1012, the English suffered one of the worst Viking onslaughts in history.
Andrei CRIȘAN
doaj   +1 more source