Cultural Connections Between the Continent and Early Medieval England

Philological Studies in Honour of Rolf H. Bremmer Jr
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-84384-752-6
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 53, 328 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Anglo-Saxon Studies

Essays exploring the literary, material, scholarly and linguistic ties between the Continent and early medieval England.

"Anglo-Saxons were tied to the Continent in many ways", Rolf H. Bremmer Jr once observed. Throughout the early Middle Ages, a crucial phase for Anglo-Continental contact, cultural connections between the English and their neighbours across the North Sea developed in a number of forms, from missionary activities to political contacts, intellectual exchanges and military confrontations, with people, books, texts, artefacts and ideas travelling back and forth. The language and culture of the Anglo-Saxons became once again part of the scholarly exchange between England and the Continent during the early modern period, when philologists from either side of the North Sea laboured on the recovery of Old English and made new connections between Old English, the other Old Germanic languages, and more distant tongues.

This volume investigates these dynamic interactions between Anglo-Saxons and the Continent. Contributors break new ground in shared traditions in runic writing, legal ideas in England and Frisia, moments of transcultural and translingual contact, the influence of continental texts in early medieval England, the manuscripts which provide unique glimpses of the dissemination of texts and ideas, and early modern attempts to apply Old English to novel purposes. They thus form an appropriate tribute to the inspirational scholarship of Rolf H. Bremmer Jr in the field of Old English philology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Porck, Thijs

Dekker, Kees

Chardonnens, László Sándor

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rabin, Andrew

Seiler, Annina

Sciacca, Claudia Di

Giliberto, Concetta

Johnson, David F

Owen-Crocker, Gale R

Hines, John

Dekker, Kees

Chardonnens, László Sándor

Teresi, Loredana

Lendinara, Patrizia

North, Richard

Porck, Thijs

Hall, Thomas N

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations

Old English Philology across the North Sea: Origins, Innovations and Connections - Thijs Porck, Kees Dekker and László Sándor Chardonnens

I Parallels and Differences
1. The 'Anglo-Frisian' Runic Zone: From Context to Concept - John Hines
2. The Evolution of Legal Reasoning in England and Frisia, 900-1300 - Andrew Rabin

II Interactions
3. International Conversations: Multilingualism among Elite Anglo-Saxons and Normans - Gale R. Owen-Crocker
4. Two Anglo-Saxon Missionaries in Saxony: Ewald the Black and Ewald the White - Concetta Giliberto
5. 'Worse than Heathens!': English Kings and Charlemagne in 786-96 - Richard North

III Intellectual Influences
6. The Iconography of the oculi mentis on the Fuller Brooch as a Visual Kenning - Loredana Teresi
7. Consuming (in) the Dialogi: Food and Gardens in Werferth's Old English Dialogues - David F. Johnson
8. The Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts of Caesarius of Arles - Thomas N. Hall
9. Criss-Crossing the Channel: Isidore, Aldhelm, Thomas and All That (Monstrous) Jazz - Claudia Di Sciacca

IV Manuscript Connections

10. Mæw or Meg ('Seagull')? Mercian Dialect Features in an Early Old English Glossary from the Continent - Annina Seiler

11. Riddling across the Channel: The Poems on Fols 1r and 35r-v of Brussels, KBR, ms. 1828-30 - Patrizia Lendinara
12. Quid Saxonica cum magia? Old English in an Early Modern Magic Manuscript - László Sándor Chardonnens and Kees Dekker

Selected Publications on Old English Philology by Rolf H. Bremmer Jr
Tabula gratulatoria
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dekker, Kees
KEES DEKKER is senior lecturer in Older English Language and Culture at the University of Groningen.

Porck, Thijs
THIJS PORCK is senior lecturer of Medieval English at Leiden University.

Rabin, Andrew
Andrew Rabin is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Louisville.

Owen-Crocker, Gale R
Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester where she was previously Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies.

Porck, Thijs
THIJS PORCK is senior lecturer of Medieval English at Leiden University.

Dekker, Kees
KEES DEKKER is senior lecturer in Older English Language and Culture at the University of Groningen.

Johnson, David F
DAVID F. JOHNSON is Professor of English at Florida State University, Tallahassee.

Hines, John
JOHN HINES is Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University.

North, Richard
RICHARD NORTH teaches Old and Middle English in UCL, where he has also taught Old Norse. He has published widely on all three literatures, but with a focus on Beowulf, particularly in The Origins of Beowulf: From Vergil to Wiglaf (Oxford, 2006).

Chardonnens, László Sándor
LÁSZLÓ SÁNDOR CHARDONNENS is senior lecturer of English Philology at Radboud University.

Chardonnens, László Sándor
LÁSZLÓ SÁNDOR CHARDONNENS is senior lecturer of English Philology at Radboud University.