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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A Thought Too Far: A Case for a Corpus Approach to Bad Knowledge in Old English Literature
SELIMThis 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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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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A Spanish bishop remembers the future : Oral traditions and purgatory in Julian of Toledo [PDF]
, 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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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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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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Parameters of variation between verb-subject and subject-verb order in late Middle English [PDF]
, 2007 This article sets out to clarify the contribution of syntactic properties and subject weight for variation between verb-subject and subject-verb order in a database of fourteenth and fifteenth-century prose. It sets out the syntactic structures which are
Warner, Anthony
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Filologia GermanicaThis 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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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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Reading Boethius in Medieval England: The Consolation of Philosophy from Alfred to Ashby [PDF]
, 2018 This chapter provides a holistic overview of the reception of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy in medieval England, from the Old English Boethius to George Ashby’s A Prisoner’s Reflections, as well as chapter summaries for the essays in The Legacy of
McMullen, A Joseph, Weaver, Erica
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