These papers reflect the long and distinguished career of Professor Jane Roberts in the field of medieval English studies, and especially her pioneering work on A Thesaurus of Old English, which provides novel source material for several of the contributions to the volume. Many of the papers deal with aspects of early lexicology and lexicography, while others focus on linguistic and literary features of Old and Middle English texts and their interpretation. They will thus be of interest to researchers in many areas of early English. A special introductory article describes the interlinked development of A Thesaurus of Old English, The Historical Thesaurus of English, and the proposed Thesaurus of Middle English.
Contributors include: Rosamund Allen, Janet M. Bately, Carole P. Biggam, Michelle Brown, Julie Coleman, Janet Cowen, Jodi-Ann George, Joyce Hill, Rosemary Huisman, Giovanni Iarmartino, George Kane, Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Michiko Ogura, Peter Orton, Jeremy J. Smith, E.G. Stanley, Paul Szarmach, Ronald Waldron.
Table of contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Louise SYLVESTER, Christian KAY: Jane Roberts: A Personal Tribute
A Bibliography of Writings by Jane Roberts
R.S. ALLEN: "Where are you, my brave knights!": Authority and Allegiance in Lazamon's Brut
Janet BATELY: Wase, Torriano and Sherwood: Some Unacknowledged Lexical Debts
C.P. BIGGAM: Ualdenegi and the Concept of Strange Eyes
Michelle P. BROWN: Female Book-Ownership and Production in Anglo-Saxon England: the Evidence of the Ninth-Century Prayerbooks
Julie COLEMAN: Lexicology and Medieval Prostitution
Janet COWEN: Woman's Wit in the Middle English Translation of Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris: British Library MS Additional 10304
J-A. GEORGE: 'Hwalas ðec herigað: Creation, Closure and the Hapax Legomena of the OE Daniel
Joyce HILL: Lexical Choices for Holy Week: Studies in Old English Ecclesiastical Vocabulary
Rosemary HUISMAN: Theme in Exodus: Grammatical Meaning and Spoken Syntax in Old English Poetry
Giovanni IAMARTINO: Foreign Words in the Kit Bag: James Willson's The Soldier's Pocket-Dictionary of 1794.
George KANE: Language as Literature
Christian J. KAY, Irené A.W. WOTHERSPOON, Louise M. SYLVESTER: One Thesaurus Leads to Another, TOE, THE, TME
Éamonn Ó CARRAGÁIN: Cynewulf's Epilogue to Elene and the Tastes of the Vercelli Compiler: A Paradigm of Meditative Reading
Michoko OGURA: Verbs of Emotion with Reflexive Constructions
Peter ORTON: To be a Pilgrim: the Old English Seafarer and its Irish Affinities
Jeremy J. SMITH: Pronominal Systems in the Auchinleck Manuscript
E.G. STANLEY: Linguistic Self-Awareness at Various Times in the History of English from Old English Onwards
Paul E. SZARMACH: The Timaeus in Old English
Ronald WALDRON: Doublets in the Translation Technique of John Trevisa
Tabula Gratulatoria
Index
Contributors include: Rosamund Allen, Janet M. Bately, Carole P. Biggam, Michelle Brown, Julie Coleman, Janet Cowen, Jodi-Ann George, Joyce Hill, Rosemary Huisman, Giovanni Iarmartino, George Kane, Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Michiko Ogura, Peter Orton, Jeremy J. Smith, E.G. Stanley, Paul Szarmach, Ronald Waldron.
Table of contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Louise SYLVESTER, Christian KAY: Jane Roberts: A Personal Tribute
A Bibliography of Writings by Jane Roberts
R.S. ALLEN: "Where are you, my brave knights!": Authority and Allegiance in Lazamon's Brut
Janet BATELY: Wase, Torriano and Sherwood: Some Unacknowledged Lexical Debts
C.P. BIGGAM: Ualdenegi and the Concept of Strange Eyes
Michelle P. BROWN: Female Book-Ownership and Production in Anglo-Saxon England: the Evidence of the Ninth-Century Prayerbooks
Julie COLEMAN: Lexicology and Medieval Prostitution
Janet COWEN: Woman's Wit in the Middle English Translation of Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris: British Library MS Additional 10304
J-A. GEORGE: 'Hwalas ðec herigað: Creation, Closure and the Hapax Legomena of the OE Daniel
Joyce HILL: Lexical Choices for Holy Week: Studies in Old English Ecclesiastical Vocabulary
Rosemary HUISMAN: Theme in Exodus: Grammatical Meaning and Spoken Syntax in Old English Poetry
Giovanni IAMARTINO: Foreign Words in the Kit Bag: James Willson's The Soldier's Pocket-Dictionary of 1794.
George KANE: Language as Literature
Christian J. KAY, Irené A.W. WOTHERSPOON, Louise M. SYLVESTER: One Thesaurus Leads to Another, TOE, THE, TME
Éamonn Ó CARRAGÁIN: Cynewulf's Epilogue to Elene and the Tastes of the Vercelli Compiler: A Paradigm of Meditative Reading
Michoko OGURA: Verbs of Emotion with Reflexive Constructions
Peter ORTON: To be a Pilgrim: the Old English Seafarer and its Irish Affinities
Jeremy J. SMITH: Pronominal Systems in the Auchinleck Manuscript
E.G. STANLEY: Linguistic Self-Awareness at Various Times in the History of English from Old English Onwards
Paul E. SZARMACH: The Timaeus in Old English
Ronald WALDRON: Doublets in the Translation Technique of John Trevisa
Tabula Gratulatoria
Index