Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts / Ursula Lenker, Lucia Kornexl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kornexl, Lucia, Editor.

Lenker, Ursula, Editor.

Series:

Buchreihe der Anglia ; Volume 67.

Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ; 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, English (Old).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 377 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this volume, scholars from different disciplines - Old English and Anglo-Latin literature and linguistics, palaeography, history, runology, numismatics and archaeology - explore what are here called 'micro-texts', i.e. very short pieces of writing constituting independent, self-contained texts. For the first time, these micro-texts are here studied in their forms and communicative functions, their pragmatics and performativity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Contents

Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts: An Introduction

Reading Money: An Introduction to Numismatic Inscriptions in Anglo-Saxon England

Practical Runic Literacy in the Late Anglo-Saxon Period: Inscriptions on Lead Sheet

Text on Textile: Ælfflæd's Embroideries

The Colophons of Codex Amiatinus

Cryptograms in Old English as Micro-Texts

Two Micro-Texts in Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: A Puzzle Revisited

"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

The Old English Dry-Point Glosses

Minimal Collections of Glosses: The Twelve Rooms of Thomas' Palace

Encyclopaedic Notes as Micro-Texts: Contextual Variation and Communicative Function

The Micro-Texts of the Tremulous Hand of Worcester: Genesis of a Vernacular liber exemplorum

Wulfstan at Work: Recovering the Autographs of London, British Library, Additional 38651, fols. 57r-58v

A Text within a Text: St Augustine's Prayer at the Beginning of his Soliloquia and its Old English Version

Guidance for Wayfarers: About to Do God's Work, Devoutly Recalled

Discrepancies between Cædmon's Hymn and its Latin Rendering by Bede

The Hymnus trium puerorum: An Unrecognized Poem by Wulfstan of Winchester?

Index of Manuscripts

General Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110629842

3110629844

9783110630961

3110630966

OCLC:

1132422019