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The Manuscripts of Solomon and Saturn: CCCC 41, CCCC 422, BL Cotton Vitellius A.xv
Humanities, 2022 Reflecting John D. Niles’ recent codicological reading of the Exeter Book, this essay advances a comparative reading of the three manuscripts containing Old English Solomon and Saturn dialogues.
Tiffany Beechy
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Old English Enigmatic Poems and Their Reception in Early Scholarship and Supernatural Fiction
Humanities, 2022 The scholarly reception history of the Old English riddles and adjacent “enigmatic poems” of the Exeter Book reveals a long process of creating intelligibility and order out of a complicated and obscure manuscript context.
Patrick Joseph Murphy
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Rereading The Wife’s Lament with Dido of Carthage: The Husband and the Herheard
Humanities, 2022 The Old English poem in The Exeter Book titled The Wife’s Lament is about longing and loneliness; the woman speaking in the poem longs for her absent husband who has sent her to live in a “cave under an oak tree”.
Marijane Osborn
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Digital Medievalist, 2022 This essay examines a Fall 2020 assignment for a second-year undergraduate “Introduction to Digital Humanities” course as a case study of digital experiential learning during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Alexandra Bolintineanu +5 more
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Wyrd Poetics: Collapsing Timescapes and Untimely Desires in The Ruin
Humanities, 2022 John Niles suggests that Old English poems often “demand […] attention not only to the possible nuances of meaning of every word, but also to the spaces where no words are written and no story told”.
Lisa M. C. Weston
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Objects That Object, Subjects That Subvert: Agency in Exeter Book Riddle 5
Humanities, 2022 A sequence of Old English riddles from the Exeter Book allow an implement to speak. This article focuses on one example, Riddle 5, generally solved as either a shield or a cutting board, to show how each interpretation gives voice not just to an ...
Jonathan Wilcox
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Journal of eScience Librarianship, 2016 Book review of Data Management for Researchers: Organize, Maintain and Share your Data for Research Success by Kristin Briney, Exeter, UK: Pelagic Publishing, 2015.
Enid Y. Karr
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The advantages and disadvantages of digital reconstruction and Anglo-Saxon manuscripts
Digital Medievalist, 2015 In editing the Exeter Book poem's The Descent into Hell, also known as John the Baptist's Prayer, I attempted to digitally reconstruct the damaged folia that contain the only surviving copy of the Old English poem.
M. R. Rambaran-Olm
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A CHRISTOLOGICAL READING OF THE RUIN; pp. 180–202 [PDF]
Trames, 2010 The foremost goal of this work is to put forward a Christological interpretation of The Ruin, an old English poem found in the Exeter Book that has been catalogued by critics among the Old English Elegies. Comparisons with the Bible will uphold my design,
Raimondo Murgia
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Asceticism in Old English and Syriac Soul and Body Narratives
Humanities, 2020 A great deal of scholarship on Old English soul-body poetry centers on whether or not the presence of dualist elements in the poems are unorthodox in their implication that the body, as a material object, is not only wicked but seems to possess more ...
Katayoun Torabi
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