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The Third Gender and Ælfric\u27s Lives of Saints [PDF]

, 2018
In The Third Gender, McDaniel addresses the idea of the third gender in early hagiography and Latin treatises on virginity and then examines Ælfric\u27s treatment of gender in his translations of Latin monastic Lives for his non-monastic audiences. She
McDaniel, Rhonda L.
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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
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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
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Ælfric and the Orient

, 2010
This dissertation examines why Ælfric\u27s choice of texts included in his Lives of Saints differs so radically from contemporaneous lists of saints venerated by Anglo-Saxons.
Elkouz, Jacqueline Geaney
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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
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Ælfric Bata's manuscripts

, 1997
Some time around 1000 A.D. the Anglo-Saxon Ælfric Bata composed Latin colloquies or dialogues by which oblates could learn elementary spoken Latin. Bata used several sources in the colloquies, two of which are newly identified here : Isidore's Synonyma ...
Gwara, Scott
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Blunder, Error, Mistake, Pitfall: Trawling the OED with the Help of the Historical Thesaurus

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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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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