From Anglo-Saxon to Early Middle English Studies Presented to E. G. Stanley

by Godden, Malcolm; Gray, Douglas; Hoad, Terry

• ISBN13: 9780198117766
• ISBN10: 0198117760
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-10-27
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

From Anglo-Saxon to Early Middle English brings together eleven papers on aspects of English language and literature from the eighth to the thirteenth century, written in honour of E.G. Stanley, the recently retired Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford.The papers, written by eminent scholars from Britain, North America, New Zealand, and Germany, reflect the range of E.G. Stanley's work, examining philology, metre, and literary style. However, the focus of the volume is on the period of rapid change from late Anglo-Saxon to early medieval England,and the contributors consider in detail the ways in which both language and literary forms developed during this time. The volume contains a comprehensive Bibliography of E.G. Stanley's publications, together with an account of his distinguished career.

Table of Contents

Prefatory Note	p. vi
Abbreviations	p. viii
Did Grendel's Mother Sit on Beowulf?	p. 1
An Alfredian Legacy? On the Fortunes and Fate of some Items of Boethian Vocabulary in Old English	p. 8
Some Reflections on the Metre of Christ III	p. 33
A Grammarian's Greek-Latin Glossary in Anglo-Saxon England	p. 60
Poetic Words in Late Old English Prose	p. 87
Old English Weak Genitive Plural -an: Towards Establishing the Evidence	p. 108
Apocalypse and Invasion in Late Anglo-Saxon England	p. 130
The Englishness of Old English	p. 163
Line-End Hyphens in the Ormulum Manuscript (MS Junius 1)	p. 182
Conclusion	p. 187
The Paradox of the Archaic and the Modern in La0292amon's Brut	p. 188
An Early English Entführung: A Note on Floris and Blauncheflur	p. 206
A Bibliography Of The Writings Of E. G. Stanley	p. 214
Index	p. 231
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