UID:
almafu_9960118778902883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-80010-054-X
Series Statement:
Anglo-Saxon studies ;
Content:
Essays demonstrating how the careful study of individual words can shed immense light on texts more broadly.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Sep 2020).
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Illustrations --
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List of Contributors --
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Acknowledgements --
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Abbreviations xv Introduction --
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Introduction --
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I. Old English Poets and their Word-Craft --
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1. Beowulf and the Art of Invention --
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2. Juliana 53a Revisited (hætsð hæþenweoh) --
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3. Wounds and Compensation in the Old English Soul and Body Poems --
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II. Old English Homiletic Tradition --
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4. Defining and Redefining: Ælfric’s Access to Gregory’s Homiliae in Evangelia in the Composition of the Catholic Homilies --
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5. Lambeth Homily 4 and the Textual Tradition of the Visio Pauli --
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6. ‘A Vision of Souls’: Charity, Judgment, and the Utility of the Old English Vision of St. Paul --
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7. The Vocabulary of Sin and the Eight Cardinal Sins --
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III. Anglo-Saxon Institutions --
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8. The King (and Queen) and ‘I’: Self-Construction in Some Anglo- Saxon Royal Documents --
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9. Anglo-Saxon Maccabees: Political Theology in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints --
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10. Nunne in Early Old English: Misogyny in its Literary Context --
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IV. Lexis of the Quotidian --
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11. Cingulum est custodiam: Semiotics and the Semantic Range of gyrdels --
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12. Island Time: The English Day and the Christian Hours --
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13. ‘Revising Hell’: The Voices of Teachers in Anglo-Saxon Studies and Anglo-Saxon England --
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V. The Task of the Lexicographer --
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14. Cryptography and the Lexicographer: Codifying the Code --
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15. Genre and the Dictionary of Old English --
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Epilogue: Word-Hord --
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16. Reading Beowulf with Isidore’s Etymologies --
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An Old English Lexicon Dedicated to Toni Healey --
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Toni Healey: A Tribute --
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List of publications of Antonette diPaolo Healey --
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Index --
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Tabula Gratulatoria
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84384-561-X
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
DOI:
10.1515/9781800100541
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781800100541/type/BOOK
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