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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The Anglo Saxons and their gods (still) among us [PDF]
When Christian missionaries arrived in Canterbury in 597AD, they brought with them a new religion that sought to appropriate certain Saxon traditions before eradicating them completely: some of these traditions were discussed by the Venerable Bede. Saxon
Mackley, J S
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The evolution of Old and Middle English texts: linguistic form and practices of literacy [PDF]
, 2016 The late, great paleographer Malcolm Parkes used to opine that 'the greatest mistake a paleographer makes is to forget the nature of the text being copied'. The axiom is a powerful one that has relevance not simply for the sub-discipline of paleography
Smith, Jeremy
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パリ詩篇（フランス国立図書館所蔵の写本 Fonds latin, 8824）に 収録されている古英語で書かれた散文と韻文による詩篇の翻訳について [PDF]
, 2015 ウェセックスのアルフレッド王の作とされる古英語散文の詩篇と10世紀に書かれた作者不詳の韻文の詩編を比較し、どのような方法で翻訳が行われているのか、詩篇の解釈にどれほど準拠しているのか、解釈の焦点をどこに合わせているのか、について論じる ...
Patrick P O’Neill
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Medical Magic and the Church in Thirteenth-Century England. [PDF]
Soc Hist Med, 2011 Rider C.
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'Should conditionals be emergent ...': asyndetic conditionals in English and German as a Challenge to Grammaticalization Research [PDF]
, 2010 The present article examines asyndetic or conjunctionless conditionals in German and English. According to Jespersen’s Model (1940), this construction arose diachronically from a paratactic discourse sequence with a polar interrogative, but more recently
Van den Nest, Daan
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The reflexes of OE beon as a marker of futurity in Early Middle English [PDF]
, 2010 Laing, Margaret
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Jewish heterosexuality, queer celibacy? Ælfric translates the Old Testament priesthood [PDF]
, 2017 Mo Pareles
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Elleborus in Anglo-Saxon England, 900–1100: Tunsingwyrt and Wodewistle [PDF]
, 2013 This article examines the meanings of the Latin word elleborus in later Anglo-Saxon England. They prove to have varied, from Ælfric’s implicit assertion around 1000 that elleborus had no vernacular Old English counterpart, to the association by the ...
Hall, ATP
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