Early medieval English language and literature
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 month ago
The deadline has been extended to 25 March.
Nicole Guenther Discenza started the topic Old English Forum CFP for MLA 2022 in the discussion
Anglo-Saxon / Old English on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The 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 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Review of A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages by R. D. Fulk, 2018.
Nelson Goering deposited The Terrible Bite of Fire: Metre, Sound Change, and Emendation in Beowulf 1122 in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 4 months ago
Line 1122 of Beowulf represents a problem where the findings of metrics, historical phonology, and the reading of the manuscript are in conflict with one another. I revive and adapt Tolkien’s proposal to emend lāðbite līċes līġ ealle forswealg to lāðbite līġes līċ eall forswealg “the cruel bite of fire swallowed up the entire bodies”. This…[Read more]
Nelson Goering deposited Old Saxon unmet, Genesis B 313b ungemet, and unmetrical scribal forms in Germanic alliterative verse in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
The adverb ungemete, unigmetes in Beowulf and elsewhere in Old English verse creates significant metrical problems. I revive and expand the proposal of Fulk (1992) to read this as *unmet. This restoration receives support from metrics and from the comparison with Old Saxon unmet of the same meaning, and the alteration to ungemet(e), etc., in the…[Read more]
Nelson Goering deposited Eduard Sievers’ Altgermanisch Metrik 125 years on in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
Eduard Sievers’ Altgermanische Metrik remains a foundational work for Germanic metrical research, even 125 years after its publication in 1893. His impact on the field may be roughly divided into three broad approaches: 1) the impulse for the typological categorization and labelling of verses; 2) the four-position principle as the basis for a…[Read more]
Thijs Porck deposited An Old English Love Poem, a Beowulf Summary and a Reference Letter from Eduard Sievers: G. J. P. J. Bolland (1854–1922) as an Aspiring Old Germanicist in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week ago
This article calls attention to documents relating to the early academic life of G. J. P. J. Bolland (1854–1922). During the late 1870s and early 1880s, Bolland was enthralled by the study of Old Germanic languages and Old English in particular. His endeavours soon caught the eye of Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1854–1922), Professor of Germanic Phi…[Read more]
Alex Woolf deposited CAEDUALLA REX BRETTONUM AND THE PASSING OF THE OLD NORTH in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 9 months, 4 weeks ago
This paper attempts to correlate Bede’s account of the British king Caedualla, to whom he attributed Edwin’s death, with the information provided by Historia Brittonum and the Harleian pedigrees. It is suggested, inter alia, that his identification with Cadwallon ap Cadfan may be in error.
Alex Woolf deposited Onuist son of Uurguist: tyrannus carnifex or a David for the Picts? in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 9 months, 4 weeks ago
This paper examines the career and reputation of perhaps the longest reigning Pictish king, Onuist son of Urguist, who was a contemporary of Offa of Mercia.
Alex Woolf deposited Dún Nechtain, Fortriu and the Geography of the Picts in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 9 months, 4 weeks ago
In the nineteenth century the Pictish kingdom of Fortriu and the site of
the Battle of Nechtansmere were located by scholars in Menteith and
Strathearn and at Dunnichen in Forfarshire respectively. These identifications
have largely gone unchallenged. The purpose of this article is to
review the evidence for these locations and to suggest that…[Read more]James M. Harland deposited Memories of migration? The ‘Anglo-Saxon’ burial costume of the fifth century AD in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 10 months ago
It is often claimed that the mortuary traditions that appeared in lowland Britain in the fifth century AD are an expression of new forms of ethnic identity, based on the putative memorialisation of a ‘Germanic’ heritage. This article considers the empirical basis for this assertion and evaluates it in the light of previously proposed ethnic con…[Read more]
Thijs Porck deposited Reshaping the Germanic Economy of Honour: Gift Giving in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
An article that contrasts the role of gift giving in Old English poems like Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon to Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
Eileen Joy deposited The Signs and Location of a Flight (or Return?) of Time: The Old English WONDERS OF THE EAST and the Gujarat Massacre in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
In this essay, I examine two widely divergent instances of what I understand to be a compulsive and racialized-sexualized violence against women whose bodies have been figured as “foreign”/Eastern (and even, as animal and barbaric) threats within collective national bodies: the real case of a massacre in the modern state of Gujarat in southwestern…[Read more]
Eileen Joy deposited The Old English Seven Sleepers, Eros, and the Unincorporable Infinite of the Human Person in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Although the ultimate theme of “The Seven Sleepers” can be located in its medieval Christian doctrine—the bodily resurrection is real, and therefore it is in the afterworld where one finally, really “lives,” with shining body and soul together—I would like to argue that, in the Old English version’s emphasis on the highly individualized emotion…[Read more]
Eileen Joy deposited On the Hither Side of Time: Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul and the Old English Ruin in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Through an analysis of Tony Kushner’s 2001 play “Homebody/Kabul” and the Old English “Ruin” poem, this essay explores the tension, anxiety, and isolation inherent in the aesthetic and philosophical enterprises of measuring the distance that separates myth from real being (a project that takes place, I would argue, against Levinas, not just o…[Read more]
Eileen Joy deposited The Work, or the Agency, of the Nonhuman in Premodern Art in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
An overview of the “state of the field” of critical post/humanist studies that also argues for the important intervention of premodern studies into contemporary post/humanist studies, and which serves as the Introduction (with chapter summaries) to “Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism,” eds. Myra Seaman and Eileen A. Joy (Ohio State…[Read more]
James M. Harland deposited Memories of Migration? So-called “Anglo-Saxon” Burial Costume of the 5th Century AD in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
This is an Accepted Manuscript, for an article forthcoming in Antiquity (2019), and remains subject to pre-publication type-editing and proofing. Please cite as James M. Harland, ‘Memories of Migration? So-called “Anglo-Saxon” Burial Costume of the 5th Century AD,’ Antiquity 93 (2019). A link to the final publication at Cambridge University Press…[Read more]
Thijs Porck deposited The Leiden University Old English ColloQuest in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
The Leiden University Old English ColloQuest is a digital, dynamic edition that adapts to each individual learner to offer an appropriate level of challenge. In particular, the type and frequency of the glosses are determined by diagnostic questions, which allows for effective adaptation to the learning needs of an individual user. As such, each…[Read more]
Thijs Porck deposited Vergrijzing in een Oudengels heldendicht. De rol van oude koningen in de Beowulf in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
In this article, I suggest Beowulf should be read as a mirror of princes for elderly kings.
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Can we access it online? I’d like to use it with my students from Argentina?
Unfortunately, the online version has some issues – when they are resolved, I will report back!