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La Prosa Anglosassone / Old English Prose
No full textOld English Prose is the fifth issue of the journal Germanic Philology, sponsored by the Italian Association of Germamic Philology (AIFG) and edited by P. Lendinara, C. Di Sciacca, J. Hill, L. Lazzari, and L. Vezzosi. The multifaceted volume consists of eleven original contributions by both established scholars and emerging Anglo-Saxonists, ranging from the ‘Alfredian’ translations to encyclopedic notes, from the anonymous Blickling and Vercelli homilies to Ælfric, from source-studies to Old English word-formation and syntax. Contents: M. Cesario, ‘Romancing the wind: The role of gales in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’; R. Cioffi, ‘Ne opige nan man to ðissere leasunge: Un controverso caso di intercessione mariana al momento del giudizio’; G. Cocco, ‘From wea to wela: Shipwreck as a foreshadowing of Christian salvation in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre’; G.D. De Bonis, ‘Le Omelie Blickling nella produzione omiletica anglosassone’; K. Dekker, ‘The organisation and structure of Old English encyclopaedic notes’; M. Godden, ‘Alfredian prose: Myth and reality’; J. Hill, ‘Augustine’s tractates on John and the homilies of Ælfric’; O. Khalaf, ‘A study on the translator’s omissions and instances of adaptation in the Old English Orosius: The case of Alexander the Great’; L. Pezzarossa, ‘Reading Orosius in the Viking Age: An influential yet problematic model’; H. Sauer, ‘Vercelli Homilies and word-formation’; L. Vezzosi, ‘Relative clauses in Old English prose: A stylistic choice’
Rethinking and Recontextualizing Glosses: New Perspectives in the Study of Late Anglo-Saxon Glossography
No full textGlossing was a scribal practice in use since antiquity, but it was in the Middle Ages that it acquired a wider meaning and a different role, becoming one of the most widespread forms of literacy in the Germanic West, including the British Isles. Most of the essays collected in this volume focus on the late Anglo-Saxon period, that is a well-identified time-frame spanning from the Benedictine Reform to the eleventh century. As recent scholarship has convincingly established, the second half of the tenth century and the beginning of the eleventh saw the blooming of Anglo-Saxon scholarship and a remarkable advance in educational practices. Within this cultural resurgence, glossing undoubtedly played no small role and was particularly vital in centres such as Abingdon, Canterbury, and Winchester. In the contributions to the present volume, the relationship between glosses and the text they accompany is always explored on the basis of their manuscript context. The essays are devoted to both Latin and Old English apparatuses of glosses as well as to specific items of the Old Norse and Old Saxon glossarial production
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)
‘Glossing in Late Anglo-Saxon England: A Sample Study of the Glosses in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 448 and London, British Library Harley 110’
No full textTalk of the devil: OE Unhold and its Germanic cognates
No full textThis essay is a comprehensive investigation of the OE adjective unhold 'hostile, unfaithful' and its Germanic cognates. In its nominalised form, this adjective denotes the devil with the connotation of 'enemy, adversary', which was the very original meaning of Hebrew satan. The present study traces the etymology of the Germanic Primaeradjektiv *hultha- 'gracious, kind, loyal, faithful' and then discusses its un-derivative *unhultha- and its attestations in Old English, Old Saxon and Old High German, showing the glossographical usage of this derivative and its modest, short lived diffusion in English, whereas in German speaking areas it seems to have enjoyed a wider and longer circulation up to the present day. Finally, the relationship between Gmc. *unhultha- and the corresponding Latin (or, in the case of Gothic, Greek) lemmata will be discussed and an attempt made to ascertain whether such a relationship can be described in terms of lexical borrowing and if so, the exact nature of the borrowing process the Germanic formation underwent. As this study shows, such a process cannot be easily pigeon-holed within one clear-cut category of lexical borrowing and one that is applicable to all the Germanic languages; for they may have implemented different strategies of borrowing and possibly at different times
Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England: Adopting and Adapting Saints’ Lives into Old English Prose (c. 950-1150)
No full textThis volume gathers fourteen new essays devoted to Old English prose saints' lives from the late Anglo-Saxon period. Moving from diverse methodological approaches and building on the most recent developments in primary and sceondary scholarship, the contributions comprehensively consider the texts and contexts of the vernacular hagiographic output both by Aelfric, the major hagiographer of his day, and by anonymous authors. By means of a comprehensive scrutiny of the Latin source-texts, including the often neglected Vitas Patrum, as well as of both the historical and manuscript contexts, this collection contributes to outline the late Anglo-Saxon sanctorale and to advance our knowledge of the literary culture and intellectual history of pre-Conquest England and beyond
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
Fluid-Related Features in the Offshore Sector of the Sciacca Geothermal Field (SW Sicily): The Role of the Lithospheric Sciacca Fault System
No full textThe Sciacca basin extends in the southwestern part of Sicily and hosts an important
geothermal field (the Sciacca Geothermal Field) characterized by hot springs containing mantle
gasses. Newly acquired high-resolution seismic profiles (Boomer data) integrated with a multichannel
seismic reflection profile in close proximity to the Sciacca Geothermal Field have documented the
presence of numerous active and shallow fluid-related features (pipes, bright spots, buried and
outcropping mud volcanoes, zones of acoustic blanking, and seafloor fluid seeps) in the nearshore
sector between Capo San Marco and Sciacca (NW Sicilian Channel) and revealed its deep tectonic
structure. The Sciacca Geothermal Field and the diffuse submarine fluid-related features probably
form a single onshore–offshore field covering an area of at least 70 km2. This field has developed
in a tectonically active zone dominated by a left-lateral transpressive regime associated with the
lithospheric, NNE-striking Sciacca Fault System. This structure probably favored the rising of magma
and fluids from the mantle in the offshore area, leading to the formation of a geothermal resource
hosted in the Triassic carbonate succession that outcrops onshore at Monte San Calogero. This field
has been active since the lower Pleistocene, when fluid emissions were likely greater than today and
were associated with greater tectonic activity along the Sciacca Fault Syste
«concupita, quaesita, ac petita solitudinis secreta»: The Desert Ideal in Bede’s Vita S. Cuthberti and Ælfric’s Life of St Cuthbert
No full textThis essay investigates the two most significant vitae dedicated to St Cuthbert, namely Bede’s Latin prose Vita S. Cuthberti and Ælfric’s Old English Life of St Cuthbert, and, through these two crucial texts of Anglo-Saxon hagiography, it discusses the Anglo-Saxon appropriation of the desert ideal as well as of the legacy of the Desert Fathers. By challenging the interpretative categorisations and dichotomies that have traditionally been applied to the history of the Anglo-Saxon monasticism and keeping to a close reading of primary sources instead, this study explores how the two major literary voices of Anglo-Saxon monasticism, Bede and Ælfric, read their Eastern antecedents in their representations of Cuthbert’s eremitic vocation. Beyond their – inevitable – differences, the comparative analysis of the Cuthbert hagiographies by Bede and Ælfric yields a fundamental continuity in the way of articulating the two crucial elements of the Christian paradigm of sanctity, the active and the contemplative, which is distinctively Gregorian. It is under the aegis of Gregory’s synthesis of contemplation and pastorate that Cuthbert’s multifaceted vocation unfolds as an exemplary prototype of the characteristically multifarious Anglo-Saxon monasticism
Characteristics of silver iodide ice nuclei originating from anhydrous ammonia-silver iodide complexes
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (page [12]).Part I. [untitled] -- Part II. Thermal systems / R. L Steele and F. W. Sciacca
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