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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Bammesberger, Alfred,; Dekker, Kees,; Gameson, Richard,; Gneuss, Helmut,; Hill, Joyce,; Hines, John,; Irvine, Susan,; Johnson, David F.,; Kornexl, Lucia,; Lapidge, Michael,; Lendinara, Patrizia,; Lenker, Ursula,; Naismith, Rory,; Nievergelt, Andreas,; Owen-Crocker, Gale R.,; Rudolf, Winfried,; Sauer, Hans,; Scragg, Donald,; Stanley, E. G.,
• HerausgeberIn: Kornexl, Lucia,; Lenker, Ursula,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series , 67
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 377 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts: An Introduction -- Part I: Micro-Texts beyond Manuscripts -- 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 -- Part II: Scribal Engagement in Manuscripts -- The Colophons of Codex Amiatinus -- Cryptograms in Old English as Micro-Texts -- Two Micro-Texts in Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies: A Puzzle Revisited -- 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 -- 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 -- Part IV: Old English and Anglo-Latin Poetry -- 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