From Wulfstan To Richard Rolle

Author : Tadao Kubouchi
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859915395

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From Wulfstan to Richard Rolle by Tadao Kubouchi Pdf

This collection of papers examine the continuity of English prose. The volume begins with an investigation of word order in the Ancrene Wisse and Richard Rolle's English epistles, followed by studies of prose rhythm in Wulfstan's De Falsis Dies; the relationship between punctuation and rhythmical unit markers and syntax in Late Old English orally-delivered prose; Scandinavian elements in Rolle's Form of Living and the texts of Be Cynestole in Wulfstan's Institutes of Polity; and the problem of word order in the Ancrene Wisse is then reconsidered. The text concludes with papers discussing manuscript punctuation as evidence for linguistic change and an electronic corpus of diplomatic parallel manuscript texts as a research tool for Early English scholars.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : MINN:31951D02084964H

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International Medieval Bibliography by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ursula Lenker,Lucia Kornexl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110630961

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Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts by Ursula Lenker,Lucia Kornexl Pdf

In this volume, scholars from different disciplines – Old English and Anglo-Latin literature and linguistics, palaeography, history, runology, numismatics and archaeology – explore what are here called ‘micro-texts’, i.e. very short pieces of writing constituting independent, self-contained texts. For the first time, these micro-texts are here studied in their forms and communicative functions, their pragmatics and performativity.

Author : Sara M. Pons-Sanz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272737

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Norse-derived Vocabulary in late Old English Texts by Sara M. Pons-Sanz Pdf

This book focuses on the Norse-derived vocabulary in the works of Archbishop Wulfstan II of York (d. 1023). A considerable advantage derives from studying Wulfstan's compositions because, unlike most Old English texts, they are closely dateable and, to a certain extent, localizable. Thus, they offer excellent material for the examination of the process of integration and accommodation of Norse-derived vocabulary in Old English. After establishing the list of terms which can be accepted to be Norse-derived, this book analyses their relations with their native synonyms, both from a semantic and a stylistic point of view, and their inclusion in the word-formation processes to which Wulfstan submitted his vocabulary, native and borrowed alike. The information derived from this approach is used to explore the possible reasons for the archbishop's selection of the borrowed terms and the impact which his lexical practices had on contemporary and later English writers.

Author : John Walmsley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119121398

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Inside Old English by John Walmsley Pdf

Inside Old English: Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell offers readers a comprehensive insight into the world of Old English. Brings together original essays written by prominent specialists in the field in honour of Bruce Mitchell, the eminent Oxford scholar and co-author of the bestselling A Guide to Old English, 6th edition Encourages readers to engage with the literary, cultural, intellectual, religious and historical contexts of Old English texts Explores the problems scholars face in interpreting and editing Old English texts Contributors provide authoritative and informative perspectives, drawing out connections between different contexts and pointing readers towards the essential secondary literature for each topic

Author : Anthony Stockwell Garfield Edwards
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843840189

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A Companion to Middle English Prose by Anthony Stockwell Garfield Edwards Pdf

The essays in this volume provide an up-to-date and authoritative guide to the major prose Middle English authors and genres. Each chapter is written by a leading authority on the subject and offers a succinct account of all relevant literary, history and cultural factors that need to considered, together with bibliographical references. Authors examined include the writers of the Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group and the Wohunge Group; Richard Rolle; Walter Hilton; Nicholas Love; Julian of Norwich; Margery Kempe; "Sir John Mandeville"; John Trevisa, Reginald Pecock; and John Fortescue. Genres discussed include romances, saints' lives, letters, sermon literature, historical prose, anonymous devotional writings, Wycliffite prose, and various forms of technical writing. The final chapter examines the treatment of Middle English prose in the first age of print. Contributors: BELLA MILLETT, RALPH HANNA III, AD PUTTER, KANTIK GHOSH, BARRY A. WINDEATT, A.C. SPEARING, IAN HIGGINS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, VINCENT GILLESPIE, HELEN L. SPENCER, ALFRED HIATT, FIONA SOMERSET, HELEN COOPER, GEORGE KEISER, OLIVER S. PICKERING, JAMES SIMPSON, RICHARD BEADLE, ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE.

Author : Laura Lambdin,Robert Thomas Lambdin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313011115

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A Companion to Old and Middle English Literature by Laura Lambdin,Robert Thomas Lambdin Pdf

Old and Middle English literature can be obscure and challenging. So, too, can the vast body of criticism it has elicited. Yet the masters of medieval literature often drew on similar texts, since imitation was admired. For this reason, recent scholarship has often focused on the importance of genre. The genre in which a work was written can illuminate the author's intentions and the text's meaning. Read in light of a genre's parameters, a given work can be considered in relation to other works within the same category. This reference is a comprehensive overview of Old and Middle English literature. Chapters focus on particular genres, such as Allegorical Verse, Balladry, Beast Fable, Chronicle, Debate Poetry, Epic and Heroic, Lyric, Middle English Parody/Burlesque, Religious and Allegorical Verse, and Romance. Expert contributors define the primary characteristics of each genre and discuss relevant literary works. Chapters provide extensive reviews of scholarship and close with detailed bibliographies. A more thorough bibliography of major scholarly studies closes the book.

Author : Michael Lapidge,Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521790719

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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 29 by Michael Lapidge,Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes Pdf

The editorial policy of Anglo-Saxon England has been to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. This approach is pursued in exemplary fashion by many of the essays in this volume. Fresh light is thrown on the dating and form of Cynewulf's poem The Fates of the Apostles through a comprehensive study of the historical martyrologies of the Carolingian period on which Cynewulf is presumed to have drawn. The literary form of Ælfric's Preface to his translation of Genesis is illustrated through a wide-ranging study of the rhetorical genre of preface-writing in the early Middle Ages (the genre which subsequently was known as the ars dictaminis), and the problems which Ælfric faced and solved in composing a Life of St Æthelthryth are illustrated through detailed comparison of the sources which he utilized. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Author : Mari Hughes-Edwards
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783165155

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Reading Medieval Anchoritism by Mari Hughes-Edwards Pdf

Medieval anchorites willingly embraced the most extreme form of solitude known to the medieval world, so they might forge a closer connection with God. Yet to be physically enclosed within the same four walls for life required strength far beyond most medieval Christians. This book explores the English anchoritic guides which were written, revised and translated, throughout the Middle Ages, to enable recluses to come to terms with the enormity of their choices. The book explores five centuries of the guides’ negotiations of four anchoritic ideals: enclosure, solitude, chastity and orthodoxy, and of two vital anchoritic spiritual practices: asceticism and contemplative experience. It explodes the myth of the anchorhold as solitary death-cell, revealing it as the site of potential intellectual exchange and spiritual growth.

Author : Kiriko Sato
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039117637

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The Development from Case-forms to Prepositional Constructions in Old English Prose by Kiriko Sato Pdf

The development from a synthetic to an analytic language is one of the most important topics in English historical syntax. This development is reflected in the gradual decrease of case-forms and the replacement of their functions with equivalent prepositional constructions. Focussing on the Old English period, when case-forms and prepositional constructions overlapped in various functions, this book aims to answer an unresolved question: was there a significant change in the use of case-forms and, alternatively, in the use of prepositions plus case-forms in contexts where both types were possible? The author makes a statistical comparison between prose texts written in the early Old English period and texts of the later Old English period; she also takes into account stylistic features of individual texts. Thus, this book addresses this Old English syntactic issue both from a historical and a stylistic perspective and shows the stages of development during the Old English period.

Author : Jessica Brantley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226071343

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Reading in the Wilderness by Jessica Brantley Pdf

Just as twenty-first-century technologies like blogs and wikis have transformed the once private act of reading into a public enterprise, devotional reading experiences in the Middle Ages were dependent upon an oscillation between the solitary and the communal. In Reading in the Wilderness, Jessica Brantley uses tools from both literary criticism and art history to illuminate Additional MS 37049, an illustrated Carthusian miscellany housed in the British Library. This revealing artifact, Brantley argues, closes the gap between group spectatorship and private study in late medieval England. Drawing on the work of W. J. T. Mitchell, Michael Camille, and others working at the image-text crossroads, Reading in the Wilderness addresses the manuscript’s texts and illustrations to examine connections between reading and performance within the solitary monk’s cell and also outside. Brantley reimagines the medieval codex as a site where the meanings of images and words are performed, both publicly and privately, in the act of reading.

Author : Alexander Bergs,Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110251609

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English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2 by Alexander Bergs,Laurel J. Brinton Pdf

Author : Michael Lapidge,Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0521813441

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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 32 by Michael Lapidge,Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes Pdf

Throughout the centuries of its existence, Anglo-Saxon society was highly, if not widely, literate: it was a society the functioning of which depended very largely on the written word. All the essays in this volume throw light on the literacy of Anglo-Saxon England, from the writs which were used as the instruments of government from the eleventh century onwards, to the normative texts which regulated the lives of Benedictine monks and nuns, to the runes stamped on an Anglo-Saxon coin, to the pseudorunes which deliver the coded message of a man to his lover in a well-known Old English poem, to the mysterious writing on an amulet which was apparently worn by a religious for a personal protection from the devil. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

Author : Nicholas Watson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812298345

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Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation by Nicholas Watson Pdf

For over seven hundred years, bodies of writing in vernacular languages served an indispensable role in the religious and intellectual culture of medieval Christian England, yet the character and extent of their importance have been insufficiently recognized. A longstanding identification of medieval western European Christianity with the Latin language and a lack of awareness about the sheer variety and quantity of vernacular religious writing from the English Middle Ages have hampered our understanding of the period, exercising a tenacious hold on much scholarship. Bringing together work across a range of disciplines, including literary study, Christian theology, social history, and the history of institutions, Balaam's Ass attempts the first comprehensive overview of religious writing in early England's three most important vernacular languages, Old English, Insular French, and Middle English, between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. Nicholas Watson argues not only that these texts comprise the oldest continuous tradition of European vernacular writing, but that they are essential to our understanding of how Christianity shaped and informed the lives of individuals, communities, and polities in the Middle Ages. This first of three volumes lays out the long post-Reformation history of the false claim that the medieval Catholic Church was hostile to the vernacular. It analyzes the complicated idea of the vernacular, a medieval innovation instantiated in a huge body of surviving vernacular religious texts. Finally, it focuses on the first, long generation of these writings, in Old English and early Middle English.

Author : Alban Butler,Paul Burns
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Christian patron saints
ISBN : 0860122611

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Butler's Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler,Paul Burns Pdf

For more than two centuries, "Butler's" has been one of the best known, most widely consulted hagiographies. In its brief and authoritative entries, readers can find a wealth of knowledge on the lives and deeds of the saints, as well as their ecclesiastical and historical importance since canonization.