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This collection of papers is a gift for all the members of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, who worked abroad under the direction of British, European and American medievalists or greatly influenced by those scholars as guests of the Society. Six papers in this book tell parts of their special fields of study: Aldred the Northumbrian scribe, Old English glosses, the Exeter Book, source studies of Old English homilies, Old English Boethius and Judgement Day II. As one of their students and a former president of the Society, the editor adds the last paper on Old English syntax.
List of contents
Contents: Eric G. Stanley: Aldred among the West Saxons: Bamburgh, and What bebbisca Might Mean - Fred C. Robinson: The Rewards and Perplexities of Old English Glosses - Jane Roberts: A Context for the Exeter Book: some suggestions but no conclusions - Joyce Hill: Mapping the Anglo-Saxon Intellectual Landscape: The Risks and Rewards of Source-Study - Paul E. Szarmach: The Old English Boethius as a Book of Nature - Graham D. Caie: Doomsday and Nature in the Old English Poem Judgement Day II - Michiko Ogura: Two Syntactic Notes on Old English Grammar.
About the author
Michiko Ogura is professor of English at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. Her field of study is medieval English syntax and word study. Her publications include Verbs of Motion in Medieval English (2002) and Words and Expressions of Emotion in Medieval English (2013).
