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A critical approach to social function in the "Preface to the pastoral care" [PDF]
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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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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Religion, Alfar and Dvergar [PDF]
En este artículo apuntamos a explorar la conexión entre dos tipos de entidades míticas colectivas, los álfar y los dvergar. Ponderamos críticamente la fiabilidad de las distintas fuentes y analizamos el modo en que esos seres son presentados en algunos ...
Barreiro, Santiago Francisco
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The Position of Negative Adjectives in Aelfric’s Catholic Homilies I [PDF]
In Old English, negative adjectives, i.e. incorporating the negative prefix -un, are said to generally come in postposition to nouns (e.g. Fischer, 2001; Sampson, 2010).
Grabski, Maciej
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Lasse Christian Arboe Sonne: Thor-kult i vikingtiden. Historiske studier i vikingetidens religion
Denne boka om kulten av guden Tor i vikingtida er ei revidert utgåve av ei PhD-avhandling som Lasse Christian Arboe Sonne forsvarte ved Københavns Universitet våren 2011.
Else Mundal
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Alfred o Grande e a linhagem sagrada de Wessex : a construção de um mito de origem na Inglaterra anglo-saxônica [PDF]
No final do século IX, as ações tomadas pelo rei Alfred, o Grande, foram decisivas para a sobrevivência da Inglaterra anglo-saxônica contra os vikings. Seu resgate cultural iria mudar a sociedade anglo-saxônica, reforçando as defesas do reino, a política
Medeiros, Elton O. S.
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The Land of Mermedonia in the Old English Andreas [PDF]
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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Tracing the origins of ESP in Old English Ælfric's Colloquy and Cosmology
The present paper will analyse two different pieces by Ælfric, perhaps one of the leading prose-writers of the Old English period. These are, namely, his Cosmology –which may have been completed towards the year 993 (Burnley, 1992)–, and his Colloquy on ...
María Ángeles Ruiz Moneva
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