Description
Book SynopsisThis collection of papers is a gift for all the members of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, who worked abroad under the direction of British, European and American medievalists or greatly influenced by those scholars as guests of the Society. Six papers in this book tell parts of their special fields of study: Aldred the Northumbrian scribe, Old English glosses, the Exeter Book, source studies of Old English homilies, Old English
Boethius and
Judgement Day II. As one of their students and a former president of the Society, the editor adds the last paper on Old English syntax.
Table of ContentsContents: Eric G. Stanley: Aldred among the West Saxons: Bamburgh, and What
bebbisca Might Mean – Fred C. Robinson: The Rewards and Perplexities of Old English Glosses – Jane Roberts: A Context for the Exeter Book: some suggestions but no conclusions – Joyce Hill: Mapping the Anglo-Saxon Intellectual Landscape: The Risks and Rewards of Source-Study – Paul E. Szarmach: The Old English
Boethius as a Book of Nature – Graham D. Caie: Doomsday and Nature in the Old English Poem
Judgement Day II – Michiko Ogura: Two Syntactic Notes on Old English Grammar.
