Interfaces between language and culture in medieval England : a festschrift for Matti Kilpiö
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Interfaces between language and culture in medieval England : a festschrift for Matti Kilpiö
(The northern world : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. : peoples, economies and cultures, v. 48)
Brill, 2010
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Selections from several languages with English translations
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The twelve articles in this volume promote the growing contacts between historical linguistics and medieval cultural studies. They fall into two groups. One examines the interrelation in Anglo-Saxon England between Latin and vernacular language and culture, investigating language-contact between Old English and Latin, the extent of Latinity in early medieval Britain, Anglo-Saxons' attitudes to Classical culture, and relationships between Anglo-Saxon and Continental Christian thought. Another group uses historical linguistics as a method in the wider cultural study of medieval England, examining syntactic change, dialect, translation and semantics to give us access to politeness, demography, and cultural constructions of colour, thought and time. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of Anglo-Saxon culture and Middle English language. Contributors are Olga Timofeeva, Alaric Hall, Seppo Heikkinen, Jesse Keskiaho, John Blair, Kathryn A. Lowe, Antonette DiPaolo Healey, Lilla Kopar, C. P. Biggam, Agnes Kiricsi, Alexandra Fodor and Mari Pakkala-Weckstrom.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Anglo-Latin Bilbingualism before 1066: Prospects and Limitations
Interlinguistic Communication in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
Quae non habet intellectum: The Disappearance of Fifth-Foot Spondees from Dactylic Hexameter Verse
The Representations of Emotions Connected to Dreams and Visions in Pre-Carolingian Continental and Anglo-Latin narratives
The Kirkdale Dedication Inscription and its Latin Models: romanitas in late Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire
Linguistic Geography, Demography, an dMonastic Community: Scribal Language at Bury St Edmunds
Sense and Sensibility: Old English Semantics and the Lexicographer's Point of View
Spatial Understanding of Time in Early Germanic Cultures: the Evidence of Old English Time Words and Norse Mythology
The Devleopment of the Basic Colour Terms of English
The Lexicon of Mind and Memory: Mood and Mind in Old and Middel English
Another Subordinator, An't Please You: A Diachronic Study of Conditional
Translating Chaucer's Power Play into Modern English and Finnish
Index
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