Early medieval English language and literature
Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] Mark Atherton, Complete Old English: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Old English with Original Texts in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 3 days, 9 hours agoPublished in English Studies (2022)
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Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] Ursula Lenker and Lucia Kornexl (eds.). Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 3 days, 9 hours agoPublished in Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 80 (2020), 233-236.
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Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] H. Gneuss and M. Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts. A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 3 days, 9 hours agoPublished in Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 76 (2016), 551-553.
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Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] J. D. Niles, The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901. Remembering, Forgetting, Deciphering, and Renewing the Past in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 3 days, 9 hours agoPublished in Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 76 (2016), 435–438.
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Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] E. Treharne, Living through Conquest: The Politics of Early English, 1020-1220 in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 3 days, 9 hours agoPublished in English Studies 96 (2015), 225–226.
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Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] R.M. Hogg and R.D. Fulk,A Grammar of Old English. Volume 2: Morphology in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 3 days, 9 hours agoPublished in English Studies 94 (2013), 733–734.
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Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] The Old English Boethius. An Edition of the Old English Versions of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae, ed. M. Godden and S. Irvine in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 3 days, 9 hours agoPublished in English Studies 92 (2011), 100–102.
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Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] E.R. Anderson, Understanding Beowulf as an Indo-European Epic: A Study in Comparative Mythology in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 3 days, 9 hours agoPublished in English Studies 92 (2011), 693–694.
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Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] T. Bolton, The Empire of Cnut the Great: Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 3 days, 9 hours agoPublished in English Studies 94 (2013), 235–237
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Thijs Porck deposited Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks agoThijs Porck, “Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age”, in Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World, ed. Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020), 219-235, 278-282, 287.
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Thijs Porck deposited Let Them Be Vlogged! Video Assignments for the Old English Classroom in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 5 months agoA brief article reporting on an educational strategy to use video assignments on Exeter Book Riddles for an Old English course.
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Thijs Porck deposited Beowulf: A Dutch Paper Doll Pirate History (1934) in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 5 months agoReports on the existence of a set of paper dolls based on the Old English poem Beowulf, published in various Dutch newspapers in the 1930s.
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Thijs Porck deposited De Middeleeuwen in Midden-aarde. J.R.R. Tol- kien en zijn Oudengelse inspiratiebronnen in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 5 months agoA Dutch article that discusses some of the Old English sources that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien.
Dominik Waßenhoven deposited Vom Verraten und Beraten. Æthelred the Unready (978–1016) im Urteil seiner Zeitgenossen in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 8 months, 4 weeks agoWas King Æthelred ‘the Unready’ seen as a failure by his contemporaries? The study looks at sources that were written during and immediately after Æthelred’s reign in order to see if the king was criticised or blamed for the misfortunes in the conflicts with the Danes. The most important authors to be considered are Ælfric of Eynsham and Archbish…[Read more]
Nelson Goering deposited Review of Mailhammer & Vennemann (2019): The Carthaginian North: Semitic Influence on Early Germanic: A Linguistic and Cultural Study in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 10 months agoJournal of Historical Linguistics, Volume 11, Issue 2, 357 – 366.
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Nelson Goering deposited Kaluza’s Law and Secondary Stress (final version) in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoKaluza’s law is a proposed restriction in the metre of Beowulf against the resolution of light-heavy sequences: words like cyning ‘king’ can only resolve and count as the equivalent of a single heavy syllable under more restricted circumstances than can words such as wudu ‘wood’. There has been debate about how to define these ‘restrict…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Kaluza’s Law and Secondary Stress in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year agoKaluza’s law is a proposed restriction in the metre of Beowulf against the resolution of light-heavy sequences: words like cyning ‘king’ can only resolve and count as the equivalent of a single heavy syllable under more restricted circumstances than can words such as wudu ‘wood’. There has been debate about how to define these ‘restricted…[Read more]
Nicole Guenther Discenza replied to the topic Old English Forum CFP for MLA 2022 in the discussion
Anglo-Saxon / Old English on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThe deadline has been extended to 25 March.
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Nicole Guenther Discenza started the topic Old English Forum CFP for MLA 2022 in the discussion
Anglo-Saxon / Old English on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThe Old English Forum announces these calls for papers for MLA 2022, 6–9 January in Washington, DC.
Session (1) Broken but Wondrous: Finding Hope in Old English Literature
Old English literature is rarely associated with hope – indeed, much of its poetry is littered with the ruins of lost peoples, frozen and desolate landscapes, meditations on…[Read more] -
Nelson Goering deposited Review: A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages (2018), by R.D. Fulk in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoReview of A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages by R. D. Fulk, 2018.
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