Product Description: Aldred's interlinear gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels is a key text of late Old Northumbrian. The papers in this collection approach the gloss from a variety of perspectives to shed light on numerous issues, such as the authorship of the gloss, its morphosyntax and vocabulary, its sources and intertextual relations, and Aldred's cultural affiliations...read more

Product Description: This collection of papers is a gift for all the members of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, who worked abroad under the direction of British, European and American medievalists or greatly influenced by those scholars as guests of the Society...read more

Product Description: This investigation is a qualitative analysis of the etymological, the morphological and the semantic history of the Old English complex plant names as a lexical field, and an in-depth study of the plant names as individual entities...read more

Product Description: Anglo-Saxon Keywords presents a series of entries that reveal the links between modern ideas and scholarship and the central concepts of Anglo-Saxon literature, language, and material culture. Reveals important links between central concepts of the Anglo-Saxon period and issues we think about today Reveals how material culture—the history of labor, medicine, technology, identity, masculinity, sex, food, land use—is as important as the history of ideas Offers a richly theorized approach that intersects with many disciplines inside and outside of medieval studies...read more

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Product Description: A complete and easy to use Old English course for the beginner which contains all the exercises and texts needed to learn Old English. A step by step approach enables students of differing abilities to advance at their own pace. This new edition, the third, is revised and expanded to contain additional Old English texts...read more

Product Description: The Old English Hexateuch, a prose translation of the first six books of the Latin Vulgate Bible, is one of the few extant Old English texts in which an almost continuous parallel translation of a Latin source exists. As such, this glossary provides a valuable tool for the study of late Old English vocabulary...read more

Product Description: Based upon the text of Wyatt's second edition (Camb. 1898). An indispensable reference for all English literature collections, compiled by the leading Boewulf scholar.THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY: Books for College Libraries; Guide to Reference Books.