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Author : Alfred Bammesberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Europe
ISBN : UCBK:C092727043
Author : Raymond Ian Page
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 085115946X
Introduction to the use of runes as a practical script for a variety of purposes in Anglo-Saxon England. Runes are quite frequently mentioned in modern writings, usually imprecisely as a source of mystic knowledge, power or insight. This book sets the record straight. It shows runes working as a practical script for a variety of purposes in early English times, among both indigenous Anglo-Saxons and incoming Vikings. In a scholarly yet readable way it examines the introduction of the runic alphabet (the futhorc) to England in the fifth and sixth centuries, the forms and values of its letters, and the ways in which it developed, up until its decline at the end of the Anglo-Saxon period. It discusses how runes were used for informal and day-to-day purposes, on formal monuments, as decorative letters in prestigious manuscripts, for owners' or makers' names on everyday objects, perhaps even in private letters. For the first time, the book presents, together with earlier finds, the many runic objects discovered over the last twenty years, with a range of inscriptions on bone, metal and stone, even including tourists' scratched signatures found on the pilgrimage routes through Italy. It gives an idea of the immense range of informationon language and social history contained in these unique documents. The late R.I. PAGE was former Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge.
Author : Tony Abramson
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1843833719
Tony Abramson presents this groundbreaking collection of articles centred upon the study of early Anglo-Saxon coinage.
Author : Gaby Waxenberger,Kerstin Kazzazi,John Hines
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110796834
Die Germanische Altertumskunde Online wird – wie bereits das in ihr aufgegangene Reallexikon – durch Ergänzungsbände begleitet. Diese Reihe umfasst Monographien ebenso wie Sammelbände zu spezifischen Themen aus Archäologie, Geschichte und Literaturwissenschaft. Damit wird der Inhalt der Datenbank um jene Aspekte erweitert, die einer ausführlichen Analyse bedürfen. Inzwischen sind bereits mehr als 100 Bände erschienen von Germanenproblemen in heutiger Sicht bis zur Germanischen Altertumskunde im Wandel.
Author : Marie Stoklund
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8763504286
Runes and Their Secrets is a collection of articles written mainly in English by recognized scholars, examining a wide range of runological topics. The articles originated as papers read at an international runic symposium that was held in 2000. Jelling Runes embraces Danish runic inscriptions from the first to the sixteenth century, including such topics as the names of the runes, their chronology, literacy, runic coins, etc. There are also articles on the oldest runic research and runic magic. Several of the articles present brand new knowledge, for example about runic encryption of military and erotic secrets from the middle of the sixteenth century. (Formerly titled: Jelling Runes)
Author : Hans Frede Nielsen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788778384201
In view of the numerous books that already exist on the subject, it may not be immediately obvious to the layman why scholars should feel the need to continue to write on the history of the English language. However, the flood of writing continues and bears witness to an incessant demand and an unabating interest. As this author demonstrates in his opening chapter, the relevance of English language history is as great as ever, not least as a central key to the understanding of cultural history. In conjunction with two further volumes scheduled to appear at a later date, this volume gives a comprehensive survey of salient aspects of English language history from its embryonic stages to the language spoken today in England and America. The volume spans the period up to 1154, the year which saw the inauguration of the Plantagenet era in England and the last year to be recorded in the annals of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.
Author : Raymond Ian Page
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Germanic languages
ISBN : 0851155995
The essays that comprise this study range from detailed discussion of the forms of particular runes in the runic alphabet to the wider matters on which runes throw light, such as magic, paganism, literacy and linguistic change.
Author : Thomas Birkett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317070993
Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry is the first book-length study to compare responses to runic heritage in the literature of Anglo-Saxon England and medieval Iceland. The Anglo-Saxon runic script had already become the preserve of antiquarians at the time the majority of Old English poetry was written down, and the Icelanders recording the mythology associated with the script were at some remove from the centres of runic practice in medieval Scandinavia. Both literary cultures thus inherited knowledge of the runic system and the traditions associated with it, but viewed this literate past from the vantage point of a developed manuscript culture. There has, as yet, been no comprehensive study of poetic responses to this scriptural heritage, which include episodes in such canonical texts as Beowulf, the Old English riddles and the poems of the Poetic Edda. By analysing the inflection of the script through shared literary traditions, this study enhances our understanding of the burgeoning of literary self-awareness in early medieval vernacular poetry and the construction of cultural memory, and furthers our understanding of the relationship between Anglo-Saxon and Norse textual cultures. The introduction sets out in detail the rationale for examining runes in poetry as a literary motif and surveys the relevant critical debates. The body of the volume is comprised of five linked case studies of runes in poetry, viewing these representations through the paradigm of scriptural reconstruction and the validation of contemporary literary, historical and religious sensibilities.
Author : Laurel Brinton,Alexander Bergs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110525304
The volume provides an in-depth account of Old English, organized by linguistic level. Individual chapters investigate the state-of-the art in the linguistics of Old English and explore key areas of debate such as dialectology, language contact, standardization, and literary language. The volume sets the scene with a chapter on pre-Old English and ends with a chapter discussing textual resources available for the study of earlier English.
Author : Victoria Symons
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110492774
This book presents the first comprehensive study of Anglo-Saxon manuscript texts containing runic letters. To date there has been no comprehensive study of these works in a single volume, although the need for such an examination has long been recognized. This is in spite of a growing academic interest in the mise-en-page of early medieval manuscripts. The texts discussed in this study include Old English riddles and elegies, the Cynewulfian poems, charms, Solomon and Saturn I, and the Old English Rune Poem. The focus of the discussion is on the literary analysis of these texts in their palaeographic and runological contexts. Anglo-Saxon authors and scribes did not, of course, operate within a vacuum, and so these primary texts are considered alongside relevant epigraphic inscriptions, physical objects, and historical documents. Victoria Symons argues that all of these runic works are in various ways thematically focused on acts of writing, visual communication, and the nature of the written word. The conclusion that emerges over the course of the book is that, when encountered in the context of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, runic letters consistently represent the written word in a way that Roman letters do not.
Author : Malcolm Godden,Michael Lapidge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521193320
This updated edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and includes five new chapters.
Author : John Hines,Nelleke IJssennagger
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Friesland (Netherlands)
ISBN : 9781783271795
An investigation into the mysterious Frisians, drawing together evidence from linguistic, textual and archaeological sources.
Author : Livia Kaiser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110728224
Die Germanische Altertumskunde Online wird – wie bereits das in ihr aufgegangene Reallexikon – durch Ergänzungsbände begleitet. Diese Reihe umfasst Monographien ebenso wie Sammelbände zu spezifischen Themen aus Archäologie, Geschichte und Literaturwissenschaft. Damit wird der Inhalt der Datenbank um jene Aspekte erweitert, die einer ausführlichen Analyse bedürfen. Inzwischen sind bereits mehr als 100 Bände erschienen von Germanenproblemen in heutiger Sicht bis zur Germanischen Altertumskunde im Wandel.
Author : David N. Parsons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : UOM:39015053044361
Author : Paul E. Szarmach,M. Teresa Tavormina,Joel T. Rosenthal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 949 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351666374
First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law, literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social, cultural, and political life from the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the fifth century to the turn of the sixteenth century, as well as its ties to the Celtic world of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the French and Anglo-Norman world of the Continent and the Viking and Scandinavian world of the North Sea. A range of topics are discussed from Sedulius to Skelton, from Wulfstan of York to Reginald Pecock, from Pictish art to Gothic sculpture and from the Vikings to the Black Death. A subject and name index makes it easy to locate information and bibliographies direct users to essential primary and secondary sources as well as key scholarship. With more than 700 entries by over 300 international scholars, this work provides a detailed portrait of the English Middle Ages and will be of great value to students and scholars studying Medieval history in England and Europe, as well as non-specialist readers.
