The Hymnus trium puerorum : an unrecognized poem by Wulfstan of Winchester? / Michael Lapidge and Helmut Gneuss. Anglo-Saxon micro-texts : an introduction / Lucia Kornexl and Ursula Lenker -- Part IV. Old English and Anglo-Latin poetry. Reading money : an introduction to numismatic inscriptions in Anglo-Saxon England / Rory Naismith -- Practical runic literacy in the late Anglo-Saxon period : inscriptions on lead sheet / John Hines -- Text on textile : Ælfflæd's embroideries / Gale R. Owen-Crocker -- Part II. Scribal engagement in manuscripts. The colophons of Codex Amiatinus / Richard Gameson -- Cryptograms in Old English as micro-texts / Donald Scragg -- Two micro-texts in Ælfric's Catholic homilies : a puzzle revisited / Joyce Hill -- Part III. From scribbles, glosses and mark-ups to text. "No sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English" (Lewis Carroll) : making sense of an Old English scribble in the Royal psalter / Susan Irvine -- The Old English dry-point glosses / Andreas Nievergelt -- Minimal collections of glosses : the twelve rooms of Thomas' palace / Patrizia Lendinara -- Encyclopaedic notes as micro-texts : contextual variation and communicative function / Kees Dekker -- The micro-texts of the tremulous hand of Worcester : genesis of a vernacular liber exemplorum / David F. Johnson -- Wulfstan at work : recovering the autographs of London, British Library, Additional 38651, fols. 57r-58v / Winifried Rudolf -- A text within a text : St Augustine's prayer at the beginning of his Soliloquia and its Old English version / Hans Sauer -- Part IV. Old English and Anglo-Latin poetry. Guidance for wayfarers : about to do God's work, devoutly recalled / E. G. Stanley -- Discrepancies between Cædmon's hymn and its Latin rendering by Bede / Alfred Bammesberger -- The Hymnus trium puerorum : an unrecognized poem by Wulfstan of Winchester? / Michael Lapidge and Helmut Gneuss.
Summary:
Old English and Anglo-Latin text and manuscript studies have been a major field of research at the University of Munich ever since Helmut Gneuss became Professor of English Linguistics and Medieval English Literature at the English Department in 1965 ... It thus seemed appropriate to celebrate Helmut Gneuss's 90th birthday with a symposium on "Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts", held at the University of Munich on 3-4 November 2017, in appreciation of his inestimable contributions to Anglo-Saxon studies and English historical linguistics as a collector, compiler, author, reviewer, bibliographer, research and mentor ... The present collection comprises many of the papers presented at the symposium ...
Series:
ANGLIA book series, ANGLIA book series, 0340-5435 ; volume 67
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