Research Catalog

Title

Anglo-Saxon micro-texts / edited by Ursula Lenker and Lucia Kornexl.

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gneuss, Helmut
• Lenker, Ursula
• Kornexl, Lucia

Description

viii, 377 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map; 24 cm.

Summary

Old English and Anglo-Latin text and manuscript studies have been a major field of research at the University of Munich ever since Helmut Gneuss became Professor of English Linguistics and Medieval English Literature at the English Department in 1965 ... It thus seemed appropriate to celebrate Helmut Gneuss's 90th birthday with a symposium on "Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts", held at the University of Munich on 3-4 November 2017, in appreciation of his inestimable contributions to Anglo-Saxon studies and English historical linguistics as a collector, compiler, author, reviewer, bibliographer, research and mentor ... The present collection comprises many of the papers presented at the symposium ...

Series Statement

Buchreihe der Anglia/ANGLIA book series, 0340-5435 ; volume 67

Uniform Title

Buchreihe der Anglia ; 67. Bd.

Subject

• 450-1100
• Manuscripts, English (Old)
• English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100
• English language > Old English, ca. 450-1100
• English language > Old English
• English literature > Old English

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Foreword / Lucia Kornexl -- Anglo-Saxon micro-texts : an introduction / Lucia Kornexl and Ursula Lenker -- Part I. Micro-texts beyond manuscripts. Reading money : an introduction to numismatic inscriptions in Anglo-Saxon England / Rory Naismith -- Practical runic literacy in the late Anglo-Saxon period : inscriptions on lead sheet / John Hines -- Text on textile : Ælfflæd's embroideries / Gale R. Owen-Crocker -- Part II. Scribal engagement in manuscripts. The colophons of Codex Amiatinus / Richard Gameson -- Cryptograms in Old English as micro-texts / Donald Scragg -- Two micro-texts in Ælfric's Catholic homilies : a puzzle revisited / Joyce Hill -- Part III. From scribbles, glosses and mark-ups to text. "No sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English" (Lewis Carroll) : making sense of an Old English scribble in the Royal psalter / Susan Irvine -- The Old English dry-point glosses / Andreas Nievergelt -- Minimal collections of glosses : the twelve rooms of Thomas' palace / Patrizia Lendinara -- Encyclopaedic notes as micro-texts : contextual variation and communicative function / Kees Dekker -- The micro-texts of the tremulous hand of Worcester : genesis of a vernacular liber exemplorum / David F. Johnson -- Wulfstan at work : recovering the autographs of London, British Library, Additional 38651, fols. 57r-58v / Winifried Rudolf -- A text within a text : St Augustine's prayer at the beginning of his Soliloquia and its Old English version / Hans Sauer -- Part IV. Old English and Anglo-Latin poetry. Guidance for wayfarers : about to do God's work, devoutly recalled / E. G. Stanley -- Discrepancies between Cædmon's hymn and its Latin rendering by Bede / Alfred Bammesberger -- The Hymnus trium puerorum : an unrecognized poem by Wulfstan of Winchester? / Michael Lapidge and Helmut Gneuss.

Call Number

JFE 20-6219

ISBN

• 9783110629439
• 3110629437
• 9783110630961 (canceled/invalid)
• 9783110629842 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019944933

OCLC

1096295407

Title

Anglo-Saxon micro-texts / edited by Ursula Lenker and Lucia Kornexl.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Buchreihe der Anglia/ANGLIA book series, 0340-5435 ; volume 67

Buchreihe der Anglia ; 67. Bd.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chronological Term

450-1100

Added Author

Gneuss, Helmut, honouree.

Lenker, Ursula, editor.

Kornexl, Lucia, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-6219