Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts /

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

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. F...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 377 p.)
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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

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