The Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels: Language, Author and Context

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The Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels

Language, Author and Context

Edited by: Julia Fernández Cuesta and Sara M. Pons-Sanz

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2016

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Volume 51 | Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series

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Aldred’s interlinear gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero D.IV) is one of the most substantial representatives of the Old English variety known as late Old Northumbrian. Although it has received a great deal of attention in the past two centuries, there are still numerous issues which remain unresolved. The papers in this collection approach the gloss from a variety of perspectives – language, cultural milieu, palaeography, glossography – in order to shed light on many of these issues, such as the authorship of the gloss, the morphosyntax and vocabulary of the dialect(s) it represents, its sources and relationship to the Rushworth Gospels, and Aldred’s cultural and religious affiliations. Because of its breadth of coverage, the collection will be of interest and great value to scholars in the fields of Anglo-Saxon studies and English historical linguistics.

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Julia Fernández Cuesta, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain; Sara M. Pons-Sanz, University of Cardiff, UK.

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"This is a very substantial contribution to study of the Gospel gloss, and an essential guide."
Greg Waite in: Parergon 34.2 (2017), 197-198

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	viii
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	ix
Editorial conventions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	xi
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	xii
Introduction Julia Fernández Cuesta and Sara M. Pons-Sanz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: The Gloss in Context
‘A Good Woman’s Son’: Aspects of Aldred’s Agenda in Glossing the Lindisfarne Gospels Michelle P. Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	13
Aldred: Glossator and Book Historian Jane Roberts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
The Glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Benedictine Reform: Was Aldred Trained in the Southumbrian Glossing Tradition? Philip G. Rusche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	61
Maxims in Aldred’s Marginalia to the Lindisfarne Gospels Paul Cavill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	79
The Shape of Things to Come? Variation and Intervention in Aldred’s Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels Stewart Brookes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
Part II: The Language of the Gloss
At the Forefront of Linguistic Change: The Noun Phrase Morphology of the Lindisfarne Gospels Robert McColl Millar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
Identifying the Author(s) of the Lindisfarne Gloss: Linguistic Variation as a Diagnostic for Determining Authorship Marcelle Cole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	169
Simplification in Derivational Morphology in the Lindisfarne Gloss Luisa García García Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	189
Dauides sunu vs. filii david: The Genitive in the Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels Maria Nieves Rodríguez Ledesma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213
Null Subjects in the Lindisfarne Gospels as Evidence for Syntactic Variation in Old English George Walkden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
Revisiting the Manuscript of the Lindisfarne Gospels Julia Fernández Cuesta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	257
Part III: Glossing Practice
Multiple Glosses with Present Tense Forms of OE beon ‘to be’ in Aldred’s Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels Christine Bolze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	289
A Study of Aldred’s Multiple Glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels Sara M. Pons-Sanz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301
The ‘Unglossed’ Words of the Lindisfarne Glosses Patrizia Lendinara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	329
The Process of Glossing and Glossing as Process: Scholarship and Education in Durham, Cathedral Library, MS A.iv.19 Karen Jolly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	361
Did Owun Really Copy from the Lindisfarne Gospels? Reconsideration of His Source Manuscript(s) Tadashi Kotake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	377
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	397
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	423

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eBook published on:

March 21, 2016

eBook ISBN:

9783110449105

Hardcover published on:

March 21, 2016

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110438567

Paperback published on:

November 19, 2018

Paperback ISBN:

9783110635294

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Front matter:

12

Main content:

432

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110449105

eBook ISBN: 9783110449105

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110438567

Paperback ISBN: 9783110635294

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Old English; Old Northumbrian; Glosses; Lindisfarne Gospels

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Academics (English Studies, Historical Linguistics, History), Libraries

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