The recovery of Old English : Anglo-Saxon studies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries /
Eight papers, some of which were presented at the 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in 1994, chart the progress of Old English studies from the earliest work of the mid 16th century through to the heyday of the early 18th century. Subjects include the mov...
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Kalamazoo, Michigan :
Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University,
2000.
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| Series: | Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Center.
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Table of Contents:
- The study of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle in the seventeenth century and the establishment of Old English studies in the universities / Angelika Lutz
- John Joscelyn, pioneer of Old English lexicography / Timothy Graham
- The Anglo-Saxon pantheon according to Richard Verstegen / Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr.
- William L'Isle and the editing of Old English / Phillip Pulsiano
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud misc. 381: William L'Isle, Ælfric, and the Ancrene Wisse / Stuart Lee
- The construction of structure in the earliest editions of Old English poetry / Danielle Cunniff Plumer
- "The Oracle of his countrey"? William Somner, Gavelkind, and Lexicography in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Kathryn A. Lowe
- "That most elaborate one of Fr. Junius": an investigation of Francis Junius's manuscript Old English dictionary / Kees Dekker.