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Precious stones and ‘wondrous’ minerals in Old High German glosses
No full textThis essay will focus on the names of precious stones and minerals which were known and praised for their extraordinary properties in Old High German glosses and glossaries. The research aims to shed light on the circulation of stone lore in medieval Germany, and the strategies employed by the glossators when approaching this peculiar lexical field. In a number of cases, the interpretamentum takes the form of an explanatory gloss, providing a short description of the stone, which can include details on its colour, shape and physical properties. The features of the glosses under examination will hopefully yield relevant data on the knowledge of the precious stones and their physical appearance, as well as the sources available to the glossators
Preface
No full textThe essays collected in these two volumes provide evidence of Patrizia Lendinara’s wide expertise and her impact in distinct academic fields, ranging from late antiquity to the early and late Middle Ages. The papers are offered as a tribute to Patrizia’s scholarship by colleagues from Italy and abroad, some of whom were once her students. The theme of this Festschrift was chosen in view of the honouree’s keen interest in and contribution to the study of the glosses and the lexicon of Germanic languages. Accordingly, although the essays collected in these volumes vary quite widely in both style and structure, they all ultimately focus on the various facets of glossography and lexicography of the medieval Germanic world
Where Do They Belong? Typology and Meaning of the Signs of the Last Judgement in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
No full textLa letteratura mineralogica nel mondo germanico medievale, con particolare riguardo per il lapidario antico inglese e il lapidario di Prüll
No full textIl saggio analizza il lapidario antico inglese tramandato nel ms. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A iii a confronto col lapidario tedesco di Prüll (Clm 536), sottolineandone la funzione pratica e la collocazione nel panorama della cosiddetta Fachliteratur del Medioevo germanico. L’analisi tipologica dei due lapidari ha tenuto conto del contesto d’occorrenza e delle rispettive fonti latine (classiche e cristiane, religiose e secolari), evidenziandone la diversa finalità (didattica per il lapidario antico inglese e medico-terapeutica per quello alto tedesco)
Studies on Late Antique and Medieval Germanic Glossography and Lexicography in Honour of Patrizia Lendinara
No full textThis is a multilingual two-volume collection assembling 43 contributions on late antique and early medieval Germanic glossography and lexicography by the major experts in the field from Europe and North America. The essays present cutting edge research on a diverse of range of topics concerning the lexicon and the glossographical production in the late antique and early medieval Germanic world with a special emphasis on the relationship between the latter and the legacy of the classical world. The volumes are complemented with a very useful set of indexes (index of manuscripts and index of authors and works)
Politics and Policy
No full textAnalis in prospetiva diacronica dell'evoluzione del concetto di politica e di politica pubblic
The Descensus ad inferos in the Old English Prose Life of St Guthlac and Vercelli Homily xxiii
No full textConcetta Giliberto’s essay investigates the motif of the descensus ad inferos in the anonymous Old English version of Felix’s Vita S. Guthlaci and Vercelli Homily xxiii, two texts which have been shown to be independently derived from a now lost vernacular translation of the Latin Vita. Apart from some differences in the two texts, the account of the devilish persecution of St Guthlac culminating in the episode of the descensus ad inferos is a most revealing case study of the Anglo-Saxon appropriation of the hagiographic genre, in that one of the most classical topoi of the saints’ lives narratives, that is the struggle with demons, itself demonstrably traceable to the very foundational hagiographies of the Desert Fathers, first of all the Vita Antonii, has been moved to an eschatological context and blended with some of the most distinctive elements of the Anglo-Saxon vision literature
The Names of the ‘Pearl’ in the Old High German Glosses and Glossaries
No full textThe essay will provide a scrutiny of the words merigrioz and perala occurring in the Old High German glosses to render the Latin words for ‘pearl’, i.e. unio and margarita, with the purpose of mapping the distribution and the contexts of use of the OHG words. The analysis will contribute to trace the origin of the German word for ‘pearl’, starting from the earliest stage of the language and – from a perspective of language contact – which takes into account the Latin counterparts of these OHG glosses
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