MCMASTER OLD ENGLISH STUDIES AND TEXTS

This introductory chapter contextualizes the philological study of language during the nineteenth century as a branch of the evolutionary sciences. It sketches in outline the two phases of poetic Anglo-Saxonism for which the rest of the book will subsequently argue in more detail. Moreover, the relationship between Anglo-Saxonism and nineteenth-century medievalism more generally is articulated, and historical analogies are drawn between nineteenth-century Anglo-Saxonism and more recent political events in the Anglophone world. Finally, the scholarly contribution of Fossil Poetry itself is contextualized within English Studies; it is argued that ‘reception’ is one of the primary objects of Anglo-Saxon or Old English studies, and not merely a secondary object of that field’s study.

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The Metrical Epilogue to the Alfredian Pastoral Care: a postscript from Junius

Anglo-Saxon England ◽

10.1017/s0263675100004646 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 24 ◽

pp. 43-50 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Peter J. Lucas

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Pastoral Care ◽

Old English ◽

English Studies ◽

Anglo Saxon ◽

Founding Father ◽

Germanic Studies

When Old English studies were in their infancy in the seventeenth century, scholars such as Franciscus junius (1591–1677) had very little to study in print. With no grammar and no dictionary (until Somner's in 1659) they had to teach themselves the language from original sources. Junius, whose interest in Germanic studies became active in the early 1650s, was so proficient, not only at Old English, but also at the cognate languages that he became virtually the founding-father of Germanic philology. Over the years Junius made transcripts in his own distinctive imitation-Anglo-Saxon minuscule script of many Old English texts, transcripts that have subsequently proved invaluable, especially where the original manuscripts have been damaged or lost.

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Evoke

Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik ◽

10.1163/18756719-12340235 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 81 (3-4) ◽

pp. 318-358

Author(s):

Sander Stolk

Keyword(s):

Old English ◽

Web Application ◽

Linked Data ◽

English Studies ◽

Multiple Sources ◽

Digital Resources ◽

Powerful Research Tool ◽

Recent Developments ◽

Linguistic Analyses ◽

The Web

Abstract This article provides an introduction to the web application Evoke. This application offers functionality to navigate, view, extend, and analyse thesaurus content. The thesauri that can be navigated in Evoke are expressed in Linguistic Linked Data, an interoperable data form that enables the extension of thesaurus content with custom labels and allows for the linking of thesaurus content to other digital resources. As such, Evoke is a powerful research tool that facilitates its users to perform novel cultural linguistic analyses over multiple sources. This article further demonstrates the potential of Evoke by discussing how A Thesaurus of Old English was made available in the application and how this has already been adopted in the field of Old English studies. Lastly, the author situates Evoke within a number of recent developments in the field of Digital Humanities and its applications for onomasiological research.

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Old English

A Century of British Medieval Studies ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197263952.003.0016 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Lapidge

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Old English ◽

Institutional Support ◽

English Studies

This chapter examines study in Britain of Old English during the twentieth century. It explains that the field of Old English, the nature of the language and the corpus of literature, was essentially discovered and defined during the course of the nineteenth century, principally by scholars in Germany and Scandinavia. It highlights the institutional support provided by the British Academy to Old English studies.

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Linguistics and the Teaching of English in Schools

The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique ◽

10.1017/s0008413100019137 ◽

1960 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 136-138

Author(s):

M. H. Scargill

Keyword(s):

Old English ◽

English Language ◽

English Studies ◽

Canadian Universities ◽

English Grammar

It is unfortunate that in the field of English studies the science of linguistics has been largely neglected in many Canadian universities. The reasons for this neglect are varied. But the results are always the same: students lamentably ignorant of the most elementary facts about the English language. I have heard an English honors graduate from one of our universities describe Chaucer as “the best of Old English authors.” I have met teachers of English in our schools who complained that, in spite of all their courses, they did not feel equipped to teach English grammar and composition and “hated’ the school “language periods.”

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