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Anhyld þinre heortan eare: Mind as Body in the Sermons of Ælfric

Open Library of Humanities
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 problem of Cross-dressing in Ælfric’s Life of St Eugenia [PDF]

Polish Journal of English Studies, 2016
Ælfric of Eynsham’s Life of St Eugenia is an account of a holy cross-dresser’s life who infiltrates and eventually heads a patriarchal community of monks in the vicinity of Alexandria and, following the exposure of her real sex, establishes a community ...
Jacek Olesiejko
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 195-230, May 2026.
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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Landscape and warfare in Anglo‐Saxon England and the Viking campaign of 1006

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 23, Issue 3, Page 329-359, August 2015., 2015
This paper outlines the state of research into early medieval conflict landscapes in England and sets out a theoretical and methodological basis for the sustained and systematic investigation of battlefield toponymy and topography. The hypothesis is advanced that certain types of place were considered particularly appropriate for the performance of ...
Thomas J.T. Williams
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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
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The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 323-352, May 2026.
This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face‐to‐face service aristocracy with specific attributes, it has resisted close definition. Examination of references to anonymous thegns in administrative and legal texts suggests that the people meant were ...
Richard Purkiss
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The do‐able solution to the interface problem

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 110, Issue 3, Page 833-853, May 2025.
Abstract Philosophers and cognitive scientists increasingly recognize the need to appeal to motor representations over and above intentions in attempting to understand how action is planned and executed. But doing so gives rise to a puzzle, which has come to be known as “the Interface Problem”: How is it that intentions and motor representations manage
Yair Levy
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English-Polish contrastive grammar at Polish universities

LingBaW, 2016
Although contrastive studies do not enjoy great prestige among linguists, they have a very long tradition dating back to ca. 1000 A.D. when Ælfric wrote his Grammatica, a grammar of Latin and English.
Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld
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Keep taking the tablets: how Prudentius’ account of St Cassian shaped medieval school stories

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 503-517, November 2024.
In about 400 Prudentius visited the shrine of St Cassian at Imola and wrote a poem describing his martyrdom. Cassian, a schoolmaster, had been killed by his own pupils using their styli and wax tablets. The story was popular throughout the Middle Ages and its medieval reception has attracted attention.
Julia Barrow
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The Carolingian cocio: on the vocabulary of the early medieval petty merchant

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 57-81, February 2024.
The word cocio (i.e. petty merchant or broker in classical Latin) was a rare term that after a long absence in written Latin reappeared in several Carolingian texts. Scholars have posited a medieval semantic shift from ‘merchant’ to ‘vagabond’. But this article argues that this consensus is erroneous.
Shane Bobrycki
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