Laurence Nowell William Lambarde And The Laws Of The Anglo Saxons

Author : Raymond J.S. Grant
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 210 pages
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Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004489998

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Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Laws of the Anglo-Saxons by Raymond J.S. Grant Pdf

The Old English manuscript whose charred and burnt remains are now MS BL Cotton Otho B. xi was written at Winchester during the reign of Æthelred, partly in the middle of the tenth century and partly about the middle of the first half of the eleventh. In its pristine state it contained Anglo-Saxon texts of some importance, including a collection of laws. Unfortunately, the manuscript fell victim to the Cottonian fire of 1731 and was largely destroyed. Before the fire, however, in 1562, Otho B. xi was transcribed practically in its entirety by the antiquarian Laurence Nowell, whose work formed the basis for the printed edition of the Anglo-Saxon Laws contained in William Lambarde's Archaionomia of 1568. The present edition offers a brief discussion of the laws of the Anglo-Saxons as they survive in manuscripts and printed editions and then concentrates on the work of Nowell and Lambarde. Two Laurence Nowells and at least three Nowell transcripts of Cotton Otho B. xi are known to modern scholarship and require consideration before proceeding to an edition of what can be reconstructed of MS BL Cotton Otho B. xi. The texts of the law codes known as II Athelstan, V Athelstan, Iudex, and Alfred and Ine found originally in MS BL Cotton Otho B.xi are printed from the Nowell transcript contained in MS BL Additional 43703, while on facing pages the corresponding passages from Lambarde's Archaionomia are reproduced. Variants from the other Nowell transcripts of the same texts are noted, manuscript relations are discussed in an appendix, and a select bibliography is offered. The importance of the present edition is that it makes it easier to compare the Otho B. xi text and Lambarde's printed version than is possible with Felix Liebermann's Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen. Comparison of the Nowell and Lambarde texts with one another shows that there can be little doubt that Lambarde for his Archaionomia used Otho B. xi or a transcript of it made by Nowell Comparison of the Nowell and Lambarde texts with the other extant manuscript and printed versions casts some further light on the relations between the surviving law codes of the Anglo-Saxons.

Author : Rebecca Brackmann
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843843184

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The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England by Rebecca Brackmann Pdf

The writings of two influential Elizabethan thinkers testify to the influence of Old English law and literature on Tudor society and self-image. Full of fresh and illuminating insights into a way of looking at the English past in the sixteenth century... a book with the potential to deepen and transform our understanding of Tudor attitudes to ethnic identity and the national past. Philip Schwyzer, University of Exeter. Laurence Nowell (1530-c.1570), author of the first dictionary of Old English, and William Lambarde (1536-1601), Nowell's protégé and eventually the first editor of theOld English Laws, are key figures in Elizabethan historical discourses and in its political and literary society; through their work the period between the Germanic migrations and the Norman Conquest came to be regarded as a foundational time for Elizabethan England, overlapping with and contributing to contemporary debates on the shape of Elizabethan English language. Their studies took different strategies in demonstrating the role of early medieval history in Elizabethan national -- even imperial -- identity, while in Lambarde's legal writings Old English law codes become identical with the "ancient laws" that underpinned contemporary common law. Their efforts contradict the assumption that Anglo-Saxon studies did not effectively participate in Tudor nationalism outside of Protestant polemic; instead, it was a vital part of making history "English". Their work furthers our understanding of both the history of medieval studies and the importance of early Anglo-Saxon studies to Tudor nationalism. Rebecca Brackmann is Assistant Professor of English, Lincoln Memorial University.

Author : Michael Lapidge,John Blair,Simon Keynes,Donald Scragg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118316108

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The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England by Michael Lapidge,John Blair,Simon Keynes,Donald Scragg Pdf

Widely acknowledged as the essential reference work for this period, this volume brings together more than 700 articles written by 150 top scholars that cover the people, places, activities, and creations of the Anglo-Saxons. The only reference work to cover the history, archaeology, arts, architecture, literatures, and languages of England from the Roman withdrawal to the Norman Conquest (c.450 – 1066 AD) Includes over 700 alphabetical entries written by 150 top scholars covering the people, places, activities, and creations of the Anglo-Saxons Updated and expanded with 40 brand-new entries and a new appendix detailing "English Archbishops and Bishops, c.450-1066" Accompanied by maps, line drawings, photos, a table of "English Rulers, c.450-1066," and a headword index to facilitate searching An essential reference tool, both for specialists in the field, and for students looking for a thorough grounding in key topics of the period

Author : Olga Timofeeva,Tanja Säily
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027286901

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Words in Dictionaries and History by Olga Timofeeva,Tanja Säily Pdf

Bringing together fifteen articles by scholars in Europe and North America, this collection aims to represent and advance studies in historical lexis. It highlights the significance of the understanding of dictionary-making and language-making as important socio-cultural phenomena. With its general focus on England and English, the book investigates the reception and development of historical and modern English vocabulary and culture in different periods, social and professional strata, geographical varieties of English, and other national cultures. The volume is based on individual (meta)lexicographical, etymological, lexicosemantic and corpus studies, representing two large areas of research: the first part focuses on the history of dictionaries, analysing them in diachrony from the first professional dictionaries of the Baroque period via Enlightenment and Romanticism to exploring the possibilities of the new online lexicographical publications; and the second part looks at the interfaces between etymology, semantic development and word-formation on the one hand, and changes in society and culture on the other.

Author : Matthew Phillpott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429886058

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The Reformation of England's Past by Matthew Phillpott Pdf

This book is a detailed examination of the sources and protocols John Foxe used to justify the Reformation, and claim that the Church of Rome had fallen into the grip of Antichrist. The focus is on the pre-Lollard, medieval history in the first two editions of the Acts and Monuments. Comparison of the narrative that Foxe writes to the possible sources helps us to better understand what it was that Foxe was trying to do, and how he came to achieve his aims. A focus on sources also highlights the collaborative circle in which Foxe worked, recognizing the essential role of other scholars and clerics such as John Bale and Matthew Parker.

Author : Helen Damico
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317732020

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Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline by Helen Damico Pdf

First published in 1998. Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline: Volume 2: Literature and Philology is the second volume of three that present Biographies of scholars whose work influenced the study of the Middle Ages and transformed it into the discipline known as Medieval Studies. Volume 2 provides thirty~two accounts of men and women from the sixteenth century to the twentieth who developed medieval philology and literature into a profession. Their subject deals with the languages and literatures of greater Europe from about the seventh century through the fifteenth and includes Celtic, Scandinavian, Germanic, and Romance nations.

Author : Helen Damico,Joseph B. Zavadil
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Historians
ISBN : 0815328907

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Medieval Scholarship: Literature and philology by Helen Damico,Joseph B. Zavadil Pdf

Author : Kees Dekker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004247468

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Origins of Old Germanic Studies in the Low Countries by Kees Dekker Pdf

This volume deals with the comparative study of Old Germanic languages in the Low Countries, in the middle of the seventeenth century; with special attention to the work of the philologist and lawyer Jan van Vliet (1622-1666).

Author : Peter J. Lucas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004516397

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Printing Anglo-Saxon from Parker to Hickes and Wanley by Peter J. Lucas Pdf

This book offers something new, a full-length study of printing Anglo-Saxon (Old English) from 1566 to 1705, combining analysis of content and form of production. It starts from the end-product and addresses the practical issues of providing for printing Anglo-Saxon authentically, and why this was done. The book tells a story that is largely Cambridge-orientated until Oxford made an impact, largely thanks to Franciscus Junius from Leiden. There is a catalogue of all books containing Anglo-Saxon, with full details of their use of manuscript or printed sources. This information allows us to see how knowledge of Anglo-Saxon grew and developed.

Author : Todd Preston
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786491049

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King Alfred's Book of Laws by Todd Preston Pdf

During the early Middle Ages, King Alfred (reigned 871-99) gained fame as the ruler who brought learning back to England after decades of Viking invasion. Although analysis of Alfred's canon typically focuses on his religious and philosophical texts, his relatively overlooked law code, or Domboc, reveals much about his rule, and how he was perceived in subsequent centuries. Joining major voices in the fields of early English law and literature, this exploration of King Alfred's influential text traces its evolution from its 9th century origins to reappearances in the 11th, 12th, and 16th centuries. Alfred's use of the vernacular and representation of secular practices, this work contends, made the Domboc an ideal text for establishing a particularly "English" national identity.

Author : Stefan Jurasinski,Lisi Oliver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108840903

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The Laws of Alfred by Stefan Jurasinski,Lisi Oliver Pdf

The first critical edition of Alfred the Great's domboc ('book of laws') in over a century.

Author : Stefan Jurasinski,Lisi Oliver,Andrew Rabin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004187566

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English law before Magna Carta by Stefan Jurasinski,Lisi Oliver,Andrew Rabin Pdf

This volume marks the centenary of Liebermann’s Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1903-1916) by bringing together essays by scholars specializing in medieval legal culture. The essays address not only Liebermann’s legacy, but also major issues in the study of early law.

Author : Sian Echard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-25
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780812201840

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Printing the Middle Ages by Sian Echard Pdf

In Printing the Middle Ages Siân Echard looks to the postmedieval, postmanuscript lives of medieval texts, seeking to understand the lasting impact on both the popular and the scholarly imaginations of the physical objects that transmitted the Middle Ages to the English-speaking world. Beneath and behind the foundational works of recovery that established the canon of medieval literature, she argues, was a vast terrain of books, scholarly or popular, grubby or beautiful, widely disseminated or privately printed. By turning to these, we are able to chart the differing reception histories of the literary texts of the British Middle Ages. For Echard, any reading of a medieval text, whether past or present, amateur or academic, floats on the surface of a complex sea of expectations and desires made up of the books that mediate those readings. Each chapter of Printing the Middle Ages focuses on a central textual object and tells its story in order to reveal the history of its reception and transmission. Moving from the first age of print into the early twenty-first century, Echard examines the special fonts created in the Elizabethan period to reproduce Old English, the hand-drawn facsimiles of the nineteenth century, and today's experiments with the digital reproduction of medieval objects; she explores the illustrations in eighteenth-century versions of Guy of Warwick and Bevis of Hampton; she discusses nineteenth-century children's versions of the Canterbury Tales and the aristocratic transmission history of John Gower's Confessio Amantis; and she touches on fine press printings of Dante, Froissart, and Langland.

Author : Stefan Jurasinski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107083417

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The Old English Penitentials and Anglo-Saxon Law by Stefan Jurasinski Pdf

This is the first book-length study of the four penitentials composed in Old English. This book argues that they are also important to our understanding of how written law developed in early England. This book considers their backgrounds and shows how they illuminate obscure passages in better-known Old English texts.

Author : Helmut Gneuss,Michael Lapidge
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 961 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442648234

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Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts by Helmut Gneuss,Michael Lapidge Pdf

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts is the first publication to list every surviving manuscript or manuscript fragment written in Anglo-Saxon England between the seventh and the eleventh centuries or imported into the country during that time. Each of the 1,291 entries in Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge's Bibliographical Handlist not only details the origins, contents, current location, script, and decoration of the manuscript, but also provides bibliographic entries that list facsimiles, editions, linguistic analyses, and general studies relevant to that manuscript. A general bibliography, designed to provide full details of author-date references cited in the individual entries, includes more than 4,000 items. Compiled by two of the field's greatest living scholars, the Gneuss-Lapidge Bibliographical Handlist stands to become the most important single-volume research tool to appear in the field since Greenfield and Robinson's Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature. Their achievement in the present book will endure for many decades and serve as a catalyst for new research across several disciplines.