Interfaces between language and culture in medieval England : a festschrift for Matti Kilpiö / edited by Alaric Hall ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hall, Alaric.

Kilpiö, Matti.

Series:

Northern world ; v. 48.

The Northern world : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. : peoples, economies and cultures, 1569-1462 ; v. 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English philology--Old English, ca. 450-1100.

English philology.

English philology--Middle English, 1100-1500.

Language and culture--England--History--To 1500.

Language and culture.

Languages in contact--England--History.

Languages in contact.

Latin language, Medieval and modern--England.

Latin language, Medieval and modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The twelve articles in this volume promote the growing contacts between medieval linguistics and medieval cultural studies generally. Articles address medieval English linguistics, and the interrelation in Anglo-Saxon England between Latin and vernacular language and culture.

Contents:

Introduction / Alaric Hall ... [et al.]

Anglo-Latin bilingualism before 1066 : prospects and limitations / Olga Timofeeva

Interlinguistic communication in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum / Alaric Hall

Quae non habet intellectum : the disappearance of fifth-foot spondees from dactylic hexameter verse / Seppo Heikkinen

The representations of emotions connected to dreams and visions in pre-Carolingian continental and Anglo-Latin narratives / Jesse Keskiaho

The Kirkdale dedication inscription and its Latin models: romanitas in late Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire / John Blair

Linguistic geography, demography, and monastic community : scribal language at Bury St Edmunds / Kathryn A. Lowe

Sense and sensibility : Old English semantics and the lexicographer's point of view / Antoinette DiPaolo Healey

Spatial understanding of time in early Germanic cultures: the evidence of Old English time words and Norse mythology / Lilla Kopár

The development of the basic colour terms of English / Carole P. Biggam

The lexicon of mind and memory : mood and mind in Old and Middle English / Agnes Kiricsi

Another subordinator, an't please you : a diachronic study of conditional and / Alexandra Fodor

Translating Chaucer's power play into Modern English and Finnish / Mari Pakkala-Weckström.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-95136-X

9786612951367

90-474-4461-2

OCLC:

695989825

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004180116.i-340 DOI