TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bammesberger,Alfred
AU  - Dekker,Kees
AU  - Gameson,Richard
AU  - Gneuss,Helmut
AU  - Hill,Joyce
AU  - Hines,John
AU  - Irvine,Susan
AU  - Johnson,David F.
AU  - Kornexl,Lucia
AU  - Lapidge,Michael
AU  - Lendinara,Patrizia
AU  - Lenker,Ursula
AU  - Naismith,Rory
AU  - Nievergelt,Andreas
AU  - Owen-Crocker,Gale R.
AU  - Rudolf,Winfried
AU  - Sauer,Hans
AU  - Scragg,Donald
AU  - Stanley,E.G.
TI  - Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts
T2  - Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ,
SN  - 9783110629439
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anglo-Saxon literature
KW  - Anglo-Saxon manuscripts
KW  - Old English language
KW  - Text linguistics
KW  - text types
N1  - Frontmatter --; Foreword --; Contents --; Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts: An Introduction --; Part I: Micro-Texts beyond Manuscripts --; Reading Money: An Introduction to Numismatic Inscriptions in Anglo-Saxon England --; Practical Runic Literacy in the Late Anglo-Saxon Period: Inscriptions on Lead Sheet --; Text on Textile: Ælfflæd’s Embroideries --; Part II: Scribal Engagement in Manuscripts --; The Colophons of Codex Amiatinus --; Cryptograms in Old English as Micro-Texts --; Two Micro-Texts in Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies: A Puzzle Revisited --; Part III: From Scribbles, Glosses and Mark-Ups to Text --; “No sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English” (Lewis Carroll): Making Sense of an Old English Scribble in the Royal Psalter --; The Old English Dry-Point Glosses --; Minimal Collections of Glosses: The Twelve Rooms of Thomas’ Palace --; Encyclopaedic Notes as Micro-Texts: Contextual Variation and Communicative Function --; The Micro-Texts of the Tremulous Hand of Worcester: Genesis of a Vernacular liber exemplorum --; Wulfstan at Work: Recovering the Autographs of London, British Library, Additional 38651, fols. 57r–58v --; A Text within a Text: St Augustine’s Prayer at the Beginning of his Soliloquia and its Old English Version --; Part IV: Old English and Anglo-Latin Poetry --; Guidance for Wayfarers: About to Do God’s Work, Devoutly Recalled --; Discrepancies between Cædmon’s Hymn and its Latin Rendering by Bede --; The Hymnus trium puerorum: An Unrecognized Poem by Wulfstan of Winchester? --; Index of Manuscripts --; General Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In this volume, scholars from different disciplines – Old English and Anglo-Latin literature and linguistics, palaeography, history, runology, numismatics and archaeology – explore what are here called ‘micro-texts’, i.e. very short pieces of writing constituting independent, self-contained texts. For the first time, these micro-texts are here studied in their forms and communicative functions, their pragmatics and performativity
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110630961
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110630961
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110630961/original
ER  -