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

• Superior document: The Northern world : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. : peoples, economies and cultures, v. 48
• TeilnehmendeR: Hall, Alaric.; Kilpiö, Matti.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Northern world ; v. 48.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of 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.