Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts

Published by De Gruyter 2019

Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts

Edited by: Ursula Lenker and Lucia Kornexl

Volume 67 in the series Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110630961

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Contents

About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Ursula Lenker, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany; Lucia Kornexl, University of Rostock, Germany.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts: An Introduction Lucia Kornexl and Ursula Lenker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Micro-Texts beyond Manuscripts
Reading Money: An Introduction to Numismatic Inscriptions in Anglo-Saxon England Rory Naismith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Practical Runic Literacy in the Late Anglo-Saxon Period: Inscriptions on Lead Sheet John Hines Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Text on Textile: Ælfflæd’s Embroideries Gale R. Owen-Crocker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Part II: Scribal Engagement in Manuscripts
The Colophons of Codex Amiatinus Richard Gameson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Cryptograms in Old English as Micro-Texts Donald Scragg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Two Micro-Texts in Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies: A Puzzle Revisited Joyce Hill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
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 Susan Irvine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
The Old English Dry-Point Glosses Andreas Nievergelt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Minimal Collections of Glosses: The Twelve Rooms of Thomas’ Palace Patrizia Lendinara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Encyclopaedic Notes as Micro-Texts: Contextual Variation and Communicative Function Kees Dekker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
The Micro-Texts of the Tremulous Hand of Worcester: Genesis of a Vernacular liber exemplorum David F. Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Wulfstan at Work: Recovering the Autographs of London, British Library, Additional 38651, fols. 57r–58v Winfried Rudolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
A Text within a Text: St Augustine’s Prayer at the Beginning of his Soliloquia and its Old English Version Hans Sauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Part IV: Old English and Anglo-Latin Poetry
Guidance for Wayfarers: About to Do God’s Work, Devoutly Recalled E. G. Stanley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Discrepancies between Cædmon’s Hymn and its Latin Rendering by Bede Alfred Bammesberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
The Hymnus trium puerorum: An Unrecognized Poem by Wulfstan of Winchester? Michael Lapidge and Helmut Gneuss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Index of Manuscripts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Researchers, students.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 377
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 28
- Coloured Illustrations: 27
- Tables: 2
Keywords: Text linguistics; text types; Anglo-Saxon literature; Anglo-Saxon manuscripts; Old English language

eBook

Published: December 2, 2019
ISBN: 9783110630961

Hardcover

Published: December 2, 2019
ISBN: 9783110629439