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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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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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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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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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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
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Changes in Psych-verbs: A reanalysis of little v [PDF]

, 2014
Aquest article estudia els verbs psicològics en la història de l’anglès. Com és ben sabut, moltes de les llengües modernes reanalitzen els objectes experimentadors com a subjectes experimentadors.
van Gelderen, Elly
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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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