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Glosses, Gaps and Gender: The Rise of Female Elves in Anglo-Saxon Culture [PDF]

, 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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A Thought Too Far: A Case for a Corpus Approach to Bad Knowledge in Old English Literature

SELIM
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]

, 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]

, 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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Continuité et innovation littéraire en Angleterre au XIIe siècle : la prédication de la militia Christ [PDF]

, 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 care for the mother tongue in mediaeval Iceland and beyond [PDF]

, 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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The Emergence and Transformation of Medieval Cumbria [PDF]

, 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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A critical approach to social function in the "Preface to the pastoral care" [PDF]

, 2008
This paper presents a functional analysis of King Alfred’s Preface to the Pastoral Care premised on the examination of the linguistic realization of the different individuals involved in the text as both a centre of structure and action.
Fernández Martínez, Dolores
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Ne opige nan man to ðissere leasunge: Un controverso caso di intercessione mariana al momento del giudizio

Filologia Germanica
This paper discusses the possible presence of pre-purgatorial doctrines in two Old English anonymous homilies which contain the same Judgement scene: the Virgin, Saint Michael, and Saint Peter gain the redemption of a crowd of sinners just before the ...
Raffaele Cioffi
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The Land of Mermedonia in the Old English Andreas [PDF]

, 2018
In the Old English poem Andreas, God sends St. Andrew on a mission of mercy to the land of the cannibalistic Mermedonians. Compared to its Greek, Latin, and Old English prose analogues, Andreas elaborates the monstrous customs of the Mermedonians and the
Bolintineanu, Alexandra
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