Review text: "Ungemein materialreiches Werk. Es ermöglicht tiefe Einblicke in die Wissenschafts- und Bildungsgeschichte des Kaiserreichs."Wolgang Neugebauer in: Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 12/2005.
Systems: new paradigms for the human sciences
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, i…
The temporal structure of Estonian runic songs
The study examines the earliest - and with over 100,000 verses, the most extensive - vernacular Legenda concerning its portrayals of holiness. Rather than emphasizing formal and historical motifs, it focuses on the specific poetics of legendary narrative. The analytic findings a…