Interfaces Between Language and Culture in Medieval England : A Festschrift for Matti Kilpiö.

The twelve articles in this volume promote the growing contacts between medieval linguistics and medieval cultural studies generally. Articles address medieval English linguistics, and the interrelation in Anglo-Saxon England between Latin and vernacular language and culture.

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Author / Creator: Hall, Alaric.
Other Authors / Creators:Timofeeva, Olga.
Kiricsi, Ágnes.
Fox, Bethany.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: Boston : BRILL, 2010.
Series:The Northern World Ser.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Introduction (Alaric Hall, Olga Timofeeva, Ágnes Kiricsi and Bethany Fox)
  • Anglo-Latin Bilingualism before 1066: Prospects and Limitations (Olga Timofeeva)
  • Interlinguistic Communication in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Alaric Hall)
  • Quae non habet intellectum: The Disappearance of Fifth-Foot Spondees from Dactylic Hexameter Verse (Seppo Heikkinen)
  • The Representations of Emotions Connected to Dreams and Visions in Pre-Carolingian Continental and Anglo-Latin narratives (Jesse Keskiaho)
  • The Kirkdale Dedication Inscription and its Latin Models: romanitas in late Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire (John Blair)
  • Linguistic Geography, Demography, and Monastic Community: Scribal Language at Bury St Edmunds (Kathryn A. Lowe)
  • Sense and Sensibility: Old English Semantics and the Lexicographer's Point of View (Antonette diPaolo Healey)
  • Spatial Understanding of Time in early Germanic Cultures: the Evidence of Old English Time Words and Norse Mythology (Lilla Kopár)
  • The Development of the Basic Colour Terms of English (Carole P. Biggam)
  • The Lexicon of Mind and Memory: Mood and Mind in Old and Middle English (Ágnes Kiricsi)
  • Another Subordinator, An't Please You: A Diachronic Study of Conditional And (Alexandra Fodor)
  • Translating Chaucer's Power Play into Modern English and Finnish (Mari Pakkala-Weckström)
  • Index.