Anglo Saxon Micro Texts
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Author | : Ursula Lenker |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2019-12-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110630966 |
Download Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In this volume, scholars from different disciplines – Old English and Anglo-Latin literature and linguistics, palaeography, history, runology, numismatics and archaeology – explore what are here called ‘micro-texts’, i.e. very short pieces of writing constituting independent, self-contained texts. For the first time, these micro-texts are here studied in their forms and communicative functions, their pragmatics and performativity.
Author | : Matti Peikola |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2020-11-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027260559 |
Download The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume explores the complex relations of texts and their contextualising elements, drawing particularly on the notions of paratext, metadiscourse and framing. It aims at developing a more comprehensive historical understanding of these phenomena, covering a wide time span, from Old English to the 20th century, in a range of historical genres and contexts of text production, mediation and consumption. However, more fundamentally, it also seeks to expand our conception of text and the communicative ‘spaces’ surrounding them, and probe the explanatory potential of the concepts under investigation. Though essentially rooted in historical linguistics and philology, the twelve contributions of this volume are also open to insights from other disciplines (such as medieval manuscript studies and bibliography, but also information studies, marketing studies, and even digital electronics), and thus tackle opportunities and challenges in researching the dynamics of text and framing phenomena in a historical perspective.
Author | : Stephen Pollington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The English Warrior from Earliest Times to 1066 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Covers all aspects of battlecraft for the period.
Author | : Michael Crichton |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2012-05-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307816435 |
Download Eaters of the Dead Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an epic tale of unspeakable horror. It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs—the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen, forbidden landscape of the North—where the day’s length does not equal the night’s, where after sunset the sky burns in streaks of color—Fadlan soon discovers that he has been unwillingly enlisted to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings, the monsters of the mist that devour human flesh. But just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea.
Author | : Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2013-05-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135047073 |
Download What is Microhistory? Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This unique and detailed analysis provides the first accessible and comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, methodology of microhistory – one of the most significant innovations in historical scholarship to have emerged in the last few decades. The introduction guides the reader through the best-known example of microstoria, The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg, and explains the benefits of studying an event, place or person in microscopic detail. In Part I, István M. Szijártó examines the historiography of microhistory in the Italian, French, Germanic and the Anglo-Saxon traditions, shedding light on the roots of microhistory and asking where it is headed. In Part II, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon uses a carefully selected case study to show the important difference between the disciplines of macro- and microhistory and to offer practical instructions for those historians wishing to undertake micro-level analysis. These parts are tied together by a Postscript in which the status of microhistory within contemporary historiography is examined and its possibilities for the future evaluated. What is Microhistory? surveys the significant characteristics shared by large groups of microhistorians, and how these have now established an acknowledged place within any general discussion of the theory and methodology of history as an academic discipline.
Author | : Mark Faulkner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2022-07-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009033093 |
Download A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century offers a new narrative of what happened to English language writing in the long twelfth century, the period that saw the end of the Old English tradition and the beginning of Middle English writing. It discusses numerous neglected or unknown texts, focusing particularly on documents, chronicles and sermons. To tell the story of this pivotal period, it adopts approaches from both literary criticism and historical linguistics, finding a synthesis for them in a twenty-first century philology. It develops new methodologies for addressing major questions about twelfth-century texts, including when they were written, how they were read and their relationship to earlier works. Essential reading for anyone interested in what happened to English after the Norman Conquest, this study lays the groundwork for the coming decade's work on transitional English.
Author | : Renate Bauer |
Publisher | : utzverlag GmbH |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2023-11-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3831649960 |
Download Travelling Texts – Texts Travelling Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This Gedenkschrift celebrates the memory of Professor Hans Sauer and his passion for travelling. The contributions in this volume explore different kinds of textual and temporal travels from various linguistic, literary, and philological perspectives.
Author | : Katherine Storm Hindley |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2023-08-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226825345 |
Download Textual Magic Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An expansive consideration of charms as a deeply integrated aspect of the English Middle Ages. Katherine Storm Hindley explores words at their most powerful: words that people expected would physically change the world. Medieval Europeans often resorted to the use of spoken or written charms to ensure health or fend off danger. Hindley draws on an unprecedented archive of more than a thousand such charms from medieval England—more than twice the number gathered, transcribed, and edited in previous studies and including many texts still unknown to specialists on this topic. Focusing on charms from 1100 to 1350 CE as well as previously unstudied texts in Latin, French, and English, Hindley addresses important questions of how people thought about language, belief, and power. She describes seven hundred years of dynamic, shifting cultural landscapes, where multiple languages, alphabets, and modes of transmission gained and lost their protective and healing power. Where previous scholarship has bemoaned a lack of continuity in the English charms, Hindley finds surprising links between languages and eras, all without losing sight of the extraordinary variety of the medieval charm tradition: a continuous, deeply rooted part of the English Middle Ages.
Author | : Phillip Pulsiano |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Civilization, Anglo-Saxon |
ISBN | : 9780866982962 |
Download Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile: Manuscripts containing the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, works by Bede and other texts Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Descriptions of manuscripts held in various libraries, including the manuscript's history, codicological features, collation, list of contents, notes on special features and problems, and selected bibliography.
Author | : Graham Williams |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2018-05-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1137540699 |
Download Sincerity in Medieval English Language and Literature Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book traces the development of the ideal of sincerity from its origins in Anglo-Saxon monasteries to its eventual currency in fifteenth-century familiar letters. Beginning by positioning sincerity as an ideology at the intersection of historical pragmatics and the history of emotions, the author demonstrates how changes in the relationship between outward expression and inward emotions changed English language and literature. While the early chapters reveal that the notion of sincerity was a Christian intervention previously absent from Germanic culture, the latter part of the book provides more focused studies of contrition and love. In doing so, the author argues that under the rubric of courtesy these idealized emotions influenced English in terms of its everyday pragmatics and literary style. This fascinating volume will be of broad interest to scholars of medieval language, literature and culture.