New PDF release: The Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels: Language,

By Julia Fernández Cuesta,Sara M. Pons-Sanz

Aldred’s interlinear gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero D.IV) is likely one of the such a lot big representatives of the previous English style often called past due previous Northumbrian. even though it has bought loads of awareness some time past centuries, there are nonetheless quite a few concerns which stay unresolved. The papers during this assortment procedure the gloss from various views – language, cultural milieu, palaeography, glossography – that allows you to make clear lots of those concerns, comparable to the authorship of the gloss, the morphosyntax and vocabulary of the dialect(s) it represents, its assets and courting to the Rushworth Gospels, and Aldred’s cultural and spiritual affiliations. as a result of its breadth of assurance, the gathering could be of curiosity and nice worth to students within the fields of Anglo-Saxon reviews and English historic linguistics.

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