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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gneuss, Helmut, honouree.

Lenker, Ursula, editor.

Kornexl, Lucia, editor.

Series:

Buchreihe der Anglia ; 67. Bd.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, English (Old).

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

English literature.

English literature--Old English.

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

English language.

English language--Old English.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2019]

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 ...

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110629439

3110629437

OCLC:

1096295407