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Alaric Hall deposited The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago
‘The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies’ uses a brief survey of current work on Old English poetry as the point of departure for arguing that although useful, the concepts of orality and literacy have, in medieval studies, been extended further beyond their literal referents of spoken and written communication than…[Read more]
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Alaric Hall deposited Constructing Anglo-Saxon Sanctity: Tradition, Innovation and Saint Guthlac on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago
‘Constructing Anglo-Saxon Sanctity: Tradition, Innovation and Saint Guthlac’ develops the unique opportunities afforded by the hagiography surrounding the Anglo-Saxon saint Guthlac for investigating the place of saints’ cults in Anglo-Saxon society. Guthlac was one of England’s first home-grown saints, and enjoyed a commensurate prominence in…[Read more]
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Alaric Hall deposited Glosses, Gaps and Gender: The Rise of Female Elves in Anglo-Saxon Culture on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago
‘Glosses, Gaps and Gender: The Rise of Female Elves in Anglo-Saxon Culture’ addresses the fact that it is difficult to detect lexical change within Old English, since most of our texts derive from a relatively short period, but lexical change can afford valuable insights into cultural change. The paper identifies changes in the semantics of the…[Read more]
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Alaric Hall deposited Turning your Coursework into Articles on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago
‘Turning your Coursework into Articles’ discusses how undergraduate and master’s-level coursework can be developed into academic articles. The piece begins by addressing some practical questions about publishing coursework–about whether and where students should try to publish. It then focuses on the writing itself–at how writer-centred…[Read more]
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Alaric Hall deposited Translating the Medieval Icelandic Romance-Sagas on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago
‘Translating the Medieval Icelandic Romance-Sagas’ is a short note surveying recent work done on translating romances composed in medieval Iceland into English, focusing on translations produced at the University of Leeds. It describes the ongoing project of the author and his collaborators to produce further translations for free-access publication.
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Alaric Hall deposited Fornaldarsögur and Financial Crisis: Bjarni Bjarnason’s Mannorð on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago
‘Fornaldarsögur and Financial Crisis: Bjarni Bjarnason’s Mannorð’ is a relatively rare example of research on the modern reception of the medieval Icelandic genre of the fornaldarsögur. This article examines Bjarni Bjarnason’s 2011 novel Mannorð, which draws heavily on Gautreks saga. Bjarni’s work is shown to belong to a trend in Icelandic novel…[Read more]
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Alaric Hall deposited How did the world come into being? on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago
‘How did the world come into being?’, is a fleeting, light-hearted report of Leeds students collecting accounts of how the world came into being.
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Evina Steinova deposited A Fragment of a Ninth-Century Liturgical Book in the Holdings of Utrecht University Library in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe subject of this paper is a fragment of a liturgical book that is a part of the manuscript fragment collection in the holdings of the Utrecht University Library Special Collections. The fragment was brought to light in the 1960s, after it was rebound into a manuscript belonging to the St. Paul’s Abbey, Utrecht, where it was inserted during t…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited A Fragment of a Ninth-Century Liturgical Book in the Holdings of Utrecht University Library in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe subject of this paper is a fragment of a liturgical book that is a part of the manuscript fragment collection in the holdings of the Utrecht University Library Special Collections. The fragment was brought to light in the 1960s, after it was rebound into a manuscript belonging to the St. Paul’s Abbey, Utrecht, where it was inserted during t…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited A Fragment of a Ninth-Century Liturgical Book in the Holdings of Utrecht University Library on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
The subject of this paper is a fragment of a liturgical book that is a part of the manuscript fragment collection in the holdings of the Utrecht University Library Special Collections. The fragment was brought to light in the 1960s, after it was rebound into a manuscript belonging to the St. Paul’s Abbey, Utrecht, where it was inserted during t…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Jews and Christ Interchanged: Discursive Strategies in the Passio Iudeorum Pragensium in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago‘Passio Iudeorum Pragensium’, a late fourteenth–century pogrom narrative from Bohemia, provides many unique insights into the medieval tradition of pogrom narratives. It is preserved in the form of a number of related but distinct textual units that allow us to examine the discursive nature of texts such as these. This discursiveness is illus…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Jews and Christ Interchanged: Discursive Strategies in the Passio Iudeorum Pragensium in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago‘Passio Iudeorum Pragensium’, a late fourteenth–century pogrom narrative from Bohemia, provides many unique insights into the medieval tradition of pogrom narratives. It is preserved in the form of a number of related but distinct textual units that allow us to examine the discursive nature of texts such as these. This discursiveness is illus…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Jews and Christ Interchanged: Discursive Strategies in the Passio Iudeorum Pragensium in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago‘Passio Iudeorum Pragensium’, a late fourteenth–century pogrom narrative from Bohemia, provides many unique insights into the medieval tradition of pogrom narratives. It is preserved in the form of a number of related but distinct textual units that allow us to examine the discursive nature of texts such as these. This discursiveness is illus…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Passio Iudeorum Pragensium: Tatsachen und Fiktionen über das Pogrom im Jahr 1389 in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoIn reconstructing the events leading to the Prague Easter massacre of 1389, perhaps the deadliest anti-Jewish pogrom in the Bohemian lands prior to WWII, modern historian relied for the most part on literary sources. Yet, these sources composed in Latin, Czech, German and Hebrew pose many problems. Not only are there few historians who can…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Passio Iudeorum Pragensium: Tatsachen und Fiktionen über das Pogrom im Jahr 1389 in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoIn reconstructing the events leading to the Prague Easter massacre of 1389, perhaps the deadliest anti-Jewish pogrom in the Bohemian lands prior to WWII, modern historian relied for the most part on literary sources. Yet, these sources composed in Latin, Czech, German and Hebrew pose many problems. Not only are there few historians who can…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Jews and Christ Interchanged: Discursive Strategies in the Passio Iudeorum Pragensium on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
‘Passio Iudeorum Pragensium’, a late fourteenth–century pogrom narrative from Bohemia, provides many unique insights into the medieval tradition of pogrom narratives. It is preserved in the form of a number of related but distinct textual units that allow us to examine the discursive nature of texts such as these. This discursiveness is illus…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Passio Iudeorum Pragensium: Tatsachen und Fiktionen über das Pogrom im Jahr 1389 on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
In reconstructing the events leading to the Prague Easter massacre of 1389, perhaps the deadliest anti-Jewish pogrom in the Bohemian lands prior to WWII, modern historian relied for the most part on literary sources. Yet, these sources composed in Latin, Czech, German and Hebrew pose many problems. Not only are there few historians who can…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6298: a new witness of the biblical commentaries from the Canterbury School in the group
Textual Scholarship on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoManuscript Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6298 contains an as yet unexamined fragment of the second batch of the gospel glosses (EvII) from the biblical commentaries of the Canterbury School inserted as an addition in 3r of the manuscript. In this article, I describe this fragment, and I attempt to contextualize its insertion into the…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6298: a new witness of the biblical commentaries from the Canterbury School in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoManuscript Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6298 contains an as yet unexamined fragment of the second batch of the gospel glosses (EvII) from the biblical commentaries of the Canterbury School inserted as an addition in 3r of the manuscript. In this article, I describe this fragment, and I attempt to contextualize its insertion into the…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6298: a new witness of the biblical commentaries from the Canterbury School in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoManuscript Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6298 contains an as yet unexamined fragment of the second batch of the gospel glosses (EvII) from the biblical commentaries of the Canterbury School inserted as an addition in 3r of the manuscript. In this article, I describe this fragment, and I attempt to contextualize its insertion into the…[Read more]
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