Old English Lexicology and Lexicography - Essays in Honor of Antonette Dipaolo Healey

Essays demonstrating how the careful study of individual words can shed immense light on texts more broadly.

List of contents

Introduction - Maren Clegg Hyer and Haruko Momma and Samantha Zacher
Beowulf and the Art of Invention - Andy Orchard
Juliana 53a Revisited (hætsð hæþenweoh) - Robert Getz
Wounds and Compensation in the Old English Soul and Body Poems - Christopher A Jones
Defining and Refining: Ælfric's Access to Gregory's Homiliae in Evangelia - Joyce Hill
Lambeth Homily 4 and the Textual Tradition of the Visio Pauli - Stephen Pelle
'A Vision of Souls': Charity, Judgment, and the Utility of the Old English Vision of St. Paul - Haruko Momma
The Vocabulary of Sin and the Eight Cardinal Sins - Paul E Szarmach
The King (and Queen) and 'I': Self-Construction in Some Anglo-Saxon Royal Documents - Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Anglo-Saxon Maccabees: Political Theology in Ælfric's Lives of Saints - Samantha Zacher
Nunne in Early Old English: Misogyny in its Literary Context - Christine Rauer
Cingulum est custodiam: Semiotics and the Semantic Range of gyrdels - Maren Clegg Hyer
Island Time: The English Day and the Christian Hours - Roy M Liuzza
'Revising Hell': The Voices of Teachers in Anglo-Saxon Studies and Anglo-Saxon England - Damian Fleming
Cryptography and the Lexicographer: Codifying the Code - Donald G Scragg
Genre and the Dictionary of Old English - Jane Toswell
Reading Beowulf with Isidore's Etymologies - Roberta Frank

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Maren Clegg Hyer, Haruko Momma, Samantha Zacher

Product details

• Authors: Maren Clegg Hyer, Haruko Momma, Samantha Zacher
• Assisted by: Maren Clegg Hyer (Editor), Haruko Momma (Editor), Samantha Zacher (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781843845614
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-561-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 617 g
• Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, HISTORY / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism