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The audience for Old English texts: Ælfric, rhetoric and ‘the edification of the simple’ [PDF]

, 2014
There is a persistent view that Old English texts were mostly written to be read or heard by people with no knowledge of Latin, or little understanding of it, especially the laity.
Gittos, Helen
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The syntax of the Old English preverbal ge- in the light of the theory of language changes as strengthenings or weakenings

Acta Neophilologica, 1992
The followmg paper reports on the results of 'the investigation into some aspects of the usage of the Old English preverbal ge- from the point of view of the theory of language changes as strengthenings or weakenings.
Frančiška Trobevšek-Drobnak
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Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully

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The Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf exists in numerous translations into prose and verse of various forms and styles. While some translators use accentual metre and alliteration to evoke the form of the original, few attempt to reproduce its metre and ...
Elliot Vale
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Linguistic change: the grammatical environment of participial non-finite clauses in Old English and in present-day English

Acta Neophilologica, 1999
The following paper reports on the final results 1 of the author's study of the use of participial nonfinite clauses and dependent clauses in Old English (OE) and in present-day English (PE), in relation to the nature of their respective grammatical ...
Frančiška Trobevšek Drobnak
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Lucas, Peter J. 2024. Old English Poetry from Manuscript to Message. Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 58. Turnhout: Brepols. Pp. xviii + 398. ISBN 9782503600314.

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Book review of Lucas, Peter J. 2024. Old English Poetry from Manuscript to Message. Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 58. Turnhout: Brepols. Pp. xviii + 398. ISBN 9782503600314.
Mark Griffith
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Manuscripts Character Recognition Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Modelling, 2023
The automatic character recognition of historic documents gained more attention from scholars recently, due to the big improvements in computer vision, image processing, and digitization.
Mohammad Anwarul Islam, Ionut E. Iacob
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Friedrich Lindenbrog’s Old English Glossaries Rediscovered

, 2022
This article presents the Old English lexicographical materials compiled by the humanist scholar Friedrich Lindenbrog (1573–1648), some of which were considered lost after World War II, but have been restored to the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek ...
Rudolf, Winfried;, Rudolf, Winfried, Pelle, Stephen;, Pelle, Stephen   +3 more
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The lemmatization of Old English Verbs from the second weak class on a lexical database

Journal of English Studies, 2015
This article compiles a list of lemmas of the second class weak verbs of Old English by using the latest version of the lexical database Nerthus, which incorporates the texts of the Dictionary of Old English Corpus.
Marta Tío Sáenz
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Digitizing the Old English Anonymous and Wulfstanian Homilies through the Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English (ECHOE) Project

, 2022
This article first outlines the challenges involved in the editing of Old English anonymous and Wulfstanian homilies before introducing the Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English (ECHOE) project.
Rudolf, Winfried;, Rudolf, Winfried
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Wilcox, Jonathan. 2023. Humour in Old English Literature: Communities of Laughter in Early Medieval England. Pp. vii + 343. ISBN 9781487545307.

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Book Review of Wilcox, Jonathan. 2023. Humour in Old English Literature: Communities of Laughter in Early Medieval England. Pp.  vii + 343. ISBN 9781487545307.
Samantha Zacher
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