Old English Lexicology and Lexicography: Essays in Honor of Antonette diPaolo Healey

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Edited by Maren Clegg Hyer, Haruko Momma, Samantha Zacher

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date: September 2020
Print publication year: 2020
Online ISBN: 9781800100541
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800100541

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Old English Lexicology and Lexicography
Edited by Maren Clegg Hyer, Haruko Momma, Samantha Zacher
Online ISBN: 9781800100541

Book DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800100541
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations
pp ix-ix

List of Contributors
pp x-xiii

Acknowledgements
pp xiv-xiv

Abbreviations
pp xv-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-16

I - Old English Poets and their Word-Craft
pp 17-18

1 - Beowulf and the Art of Invention
pp 19-36

2 - Juliana 53a Revisited (hætsð hæþenweoh)
pp 37-50

3 - Wounds and Compensation in the Old English Soul and Body Poems
pp 51-64

II - Old English Homiletic Tradition
pp 65-66

4 - Defining and Redefining: Ælfric's Access to Gregory's Homiliae in Evangelia in the Composition of the Catholic Homilies
pp 67-79

5 - Lambeth Homily 4 and the Textual Tradition of the Visio Pauli
pp 80-93

6 - ‘A Vision of Souls’: Charity, Judgment, and the Utility of the Old English Vision of St. Paul
pp 94-109

7 - The Vocabulary of Sin and the Eight Cardinal Sins
pp 110-126

III - Anglo-Saxon Institutions
pp 127-128

8 - The King (and Queen) and ‘I’: Self-Construction in Some Anglo-Saxon Royal Documents
pp 129-142

9 - Anglo-Saxon Maccabees: Political Theology in Ælfric's Lives of Saints
pp 143-158

10 - Nunne in Early Old English: Misogyny in its Literary Context
pp 159-172

IV - Lexis of the Quotidian
pp 173-174

11 - Cingulum est custodiam: Semiotics and the Semantic Range of gyrdels
pp 175-185

12 - Island Time: The English Day and the Christian Hours
pp 186-198

13 - ‘Revising Hell’: The Voices of Teachers in Anglo-Saxon Studies and Anglo-Saxon England
pp 199-216

V - The Task of the Lexicographer
pp 217-218

14 - Cryptography and the Lexicographer: Codifying the Code
pp 219-228

15 - Genre and the Dictionary of Old English
pp 229-242

Epilogue: Word-Hord
pp 243-244

16 - Reading Beowulf with Isidore's Etymologies
pp 245-259

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