A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972

A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972
Author: Stanley B. Greenfield
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2008-07-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1556356374

"Greenfield and Robinson state in their preface that they have sought to include every book, monograph, article, note, and review published on Old English literature since the invention of printing. They have come as close to doing so as two descendants of Adam possibly can, undeterred by the trouble at Babel. (By my count, thirty different languages are represented in the bibliography, sixteen of them frequently.) Rarely has any bibliography in any other discipline equalled the thoroughness and accuracy of this one. It is a contribution for which Greenfield and Robinson will long receive from their colleagues that measure of gratitude reserved for Old English scholarship's most bounteous treasure-givers."--Carl T. Berkhout"What astonishes is how well [Greenfield and Robinson] have succeeded in what they set out to do, how uniformly excellent their volume is in all its profusion of information and detail. . . . The Bibliography will bring scholars that peculiar joy in complex intellectual work done well that only they know; it will be immensely useful, virtually indispensable--if not a vade mecum because of its size . . . then at least an enchiridion with which they will fight their battles on behalf of Beowulf and Brunanburb and the Blickling Homilies."--The Old English Newsletter"[A] volume long needed, [the Bibliography] will now become an indispensable reference work for every student of Old English literature from the beginner to the acknowledged authority."--British Book News

Alfred the Wise

Alfred the Wise
Author: Jane Roberts
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780859915151

Alfred's life, work and influence studied through writings of his age.

Germanic and Its Dialects

Germanic and Its Dialects
Author:
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 553
Release: 1977
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9027209847

Germanists have long lamented the lack of comprehensive bibliographies of past and present literature, particularly in the areas of Frisian, Old English, Old High German, and, most notably, Old Saxon. The compilers of this bibliography deem it crucial to fill this lacuna before embarking on two further volumes project to complete this series: I. Texts, and II. Maps and Commentaries. NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: The publication of the two further volumes (I. Texts; II. Maps and Commentaries) has been canceled.

The Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels

The Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels
Author: Julia Fernández Cuesta
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2016-03-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110449102

Aldred’s interlinear gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero D.IV) is one of the most substantial representatives of the Old English variety known as late Old Northumbrian. Although it has received a great deal of attention in the past two centuries, there are still numerous issues which remain unresolved. The papers in this collection approach the gloss from a variety of perspectives – language, cultural milieu, palaeography, glossography – in order to shed light on many of these issues, such as the authorship of the gloss, the morphosyntax and vocabulary of the dialect(s) it represents, its sources and relationship to the Rushworth Gospels, and Aldred’s cultural and religious affiliations. Because of its breadth of coverage, the collection will be of interest and great value to scholars in the fields of Anglo-Saxon studies and English historical linguistics.