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

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.

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Superior document:The Northern world : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. : peoples, economies and cultures, v. 48
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Northern world ; v. 48.
Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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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.