From Anglo-Saxon to Early Middle English Studies Presented to E. G. Stanley

Name: From Anglo-Saxon to Early Middle English Studies Presented to E. G. Stanley
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ISBN: 9780198117766

ISBN-10: 0198117760

ISBN-13: 9780198117766

Edition: 1994

Authors: Malcolm Godden, Douglas Gray, Terry Hoad

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From Anglo-Saxon to Early Middle English brings together eleven papers on aspects of English language and literature from the eighth to the thirteenth century, written in honor of E.G. Stanley, the recently retired Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford. The papers, written by eminent scholars from Britain, North America, New Zealand, and Germany, reflect the range of E.G. Stanley's work, examining philology, meter, and literary style. However, the focus of the volume is on the period of rapid change from late Anglo-Saxon to early medieval England, and the contributors consider in detail the ways in which both language and literary forms developed during…

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List price: $205.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/27/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 242
Size: 5.63" wide x 8.74" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Malcolm Godden is Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.



Prefatory Note


Abbreviations


Did Grendel's Mother Sit on Beowulf?


An Alfredian Legacy? On the Fortunes and Fate of some Items of Boethian Vocabulary in Old English


Some Reflections on the Metre of Christ III


A Grammarian's Greek-Latin Glossary in Anglo-Saxon England


Poetic Words in Late Old English Prose


Old English Weak Genitive Plural -an: Towards Establishing the Evidence


Apocalypse and Invasion in Late Anglo-Saxon England


The Englishness of Old English


Line-End Hyphens in the Ormulum Manuscript (MS Junius 1)


Conclusion


The Paradox of the Archaic and the Modern in La0292amon's Brut


An Early English Entfï¿½hrung: A Note on Floris and Blauncheflur


A Bibliography Of The Writings Of E. G. Stanley


Index