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WRITING AND LITERARY ACTIVITY IN THE VERNACULAR IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
У статті розглянуто процес виникнення і функціонування різних форм текстової фіксації на англійських територіальних діалектах давнього періоду розвитку англійської мови як наслідок розвитку суспільних функцій мови та розширення сфер функціонування її ...
Євченко, В. В.
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A Spanish bishop remembers the future : Oral traditions and purgatory in Julian of Toledo [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Though oral tradition is not usually concerned with texts such as Julian of Toledo's Prognosticon, I hope I have convincingly demonstrated that even here, in a work comprised mostly of remembered quotations of Patristic authors we see the traditions of ...
Stork, Nancy P.
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A Thought Too Far: A Case for a Corpus Approach to Bad Knowledge in Old English Literature

open access: yesSELIM
This paper explores the results of a pilot study that made use of corpus linguistic and other big data tools to explore the literary and cultural function of knowledge in Old English literature.
Rían Boyle
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Grammatical person and the variable syntax of Old English personal pronouns [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The variable positioning of bare personal pronouns in Old English prose remains something of a mystery. In the role of prepositional object, for example, these elements are often found in positions where other prepositional object types are rarely ...
Alcorn, Rhona
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In Praise of the Saints: Introducing Medieval Hagiography into the British Literature Survey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Despite increased interest in hagiographic writing among scholars of early literature in the last few decades, serious study of saints’ lives in the undergraduate classroom remains rare.
Sexton, John P.
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Glosses, Gaps and Gender: The Rise of Female Elves in Anglo-Saxon Culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
It is difficult to detect lexical change within Old English, since most of our texts derive from a relatively short period, but lexical change can afford valuable insights into cultural change.
Hall, Alaric
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Continuité et innovation littéraire en Angleterre au XIIe siècle : la prédication de la militia Christ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
International audienceEnglish literary historians of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries have for long sought evidence for the continuity of the Old English literary tradition in the texts known collectively as the Katherine Group and in related texts ...
Morrison, Stephen
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The Emergence and Transformation of Medieval Cumbria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This is the accepted manuscript. The final version's available from Edinburgh University Press at http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/shr.2014.0216. There has long been uncertainty about the relationship between the polities known as Strathclyde
Edmonds, Fiona
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The care for the mother tongue in mediaeval Iceland and beyond [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article examines the care for the mother tongue in the Middle Ages. The starting point of this discussion is given by a Festschrift article by Sverrir Tómasson (Málvöndun á miðöldum, 1998).
Tarsi, Matteo
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