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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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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 status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.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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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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La prima edizione di un testo anglosasone: un falso(?) elisabettiano. [PDF]
, 2010 Nel 1567 a Londra, M. Parker, arcivescovo di Canterbury, cura l'edizione a stampa del primo testo anglosassone. Si tratta di un'omelia di Aelfric (X sec.) abate di Eynsham e illustre rappresentante della rinascita benedettina anglosassone.
RIZZO, Carmela
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The consul vanishes? On using and not using Gregory the Great's Register in early medieval England
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 106-127, February 2024.This article builds upon recent scholarship emphasizing the importance of Gregory the Great's Register as a key text of the Carolingian and post‐Carolingian library, exploring by contrast its peculiarly limited reception in England. It first surveys what little evidence we have for its citation by English ecclesiastics (post‐c.1000, mostly via Wulfstan)
Benjamin Savill
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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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, 2018 [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation centers on selected works of the late Anglo-Saxon author Ælfric of Eynsham. The purpose of the project is to refine our understanding of structural patterning within Ælfric's alliterative works and to provide new literary and historical readings of a selection of ...
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