The purpose of the present work is to make etymological and semasiological researches into the terms for Latin virgo, vriginitas and puella which were employed by the Anglo-Saxon glossators of the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Rushworth Gospels, and by the translator of the West-Saxo…
"9" Result
Sort By:
This dissertation explores various characteristics that define the monstrous and the heroic — both on their own and in conjunction with each other — in three representative texts of the Middle Ages, the Old English Beowulf (manuscript c.1000), the Persian epic, The Shahnameh (c.…
More than one contemporary scholar has written about the “search” for the Anglo-Saxon oral poet. They consider historical texts and poetry and every other possible place where some record of who the Anglo-Saxon scop may have been might be found. Some claim to recognize the Old E…
This dissertation examines the naming methods on Late Viking Age Swedish runestones. It is well-known in the runological world that the runestones of the Late Viking Age preserve a plethora of personal names. At the same time, name scholars have long observed that the older Germ…
Bodies and Boundaries explores and defines a poetics of cultural exclusion in six Old English prose texts: Wonders of the East, Alexander's Letter to Aristotle, AElfric's De Populo Israhel and Maccabees, and two anonymous hagiographies, the Life of St. Mary of Egypt and the Life…
This thesis identifies key aspects of the nature of holiness present in the life of seventh-century Saint Aldhelm present in three fifteenth-century Middle English versions of versions of the Legenda aurea. From its first inception in thirteenth-century Genoa the Legenda aurea’s…
In my dissertation, I examine the representation of Jews in Old English literature. Despite the absence of Jews in Anglo-Saxon society, Old English poets are quite interested in Jews, making them the focus of several poems, including Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, Judith, Andreas, and…
Words formed from the roots west- and wast- in Old and Middle English are investigated, along with their contexts, with respect to the words' basic meaning, associations, and range of application. In Old English, the noun westen denotes a place difficult for humans to survive in…