THE LOCALISATION AND DATING OF MEDIEVAL ICELANDIC MANUSCRIPTS
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Vikings in the Nor’ Wast: The Roots of Orkney’s Identity in Norway and Canada
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“The Fifteen Signs Before Doomsday and “Post Conquest English Identity”
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Seventh Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference – “Crisis of Categorization”
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British or Welsh? National Identity in Twelfth-Century Wales
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Middle English and Anglo-Norman in Contact
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Genitives and other Cases in Old Norse-Icelandic
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Assessing the relative status of languages in medieval Ireland
Assessing the relative status of languages in medieval Ireland By Raymond Hickey Studies in Middle English linguistics, edited by Jacek Fisiak (Berlin, 1997)…
Cognitive Aspects of the Grammaticalization of Medieval Welsh Prepositions
Cognitive Aspects of the Grammaticalization of Medieval Welsh Prepositions By Heather Rose Jones PhD Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2003 Abstract: Prepositions are one…
Account of the Viking Siege of Paris offers new insights into the early Middle Ages
By Peter Konieczny and Sandra Sadowski The chance to work on an amazing and unique story was the reason behind Nirmal Dass producing…
Linguistic patterns in the place-names of Norway and the Northern Isles
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WITCHES IN BALTIC FAIRY TALES
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The Gypsies and Their Impact on Fifteenth-Century Western European Iconography
Since Gypsies had no chroniclers of their own, their history is difficult to reconstruct. The origin of the Gypsies was a complete mystery until late in the eighteenth century, when their derivation from India was proved by means of early linguistic com- parison.
How should we define vernacular literature?
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The Transition from Coptic to Arabic
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The Alfredian Project and its Aftermath: Rethinking the Literary History of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
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FROM ADDRESS TO DEBATE: GENERIC CONSIDERATIONS IN THE DEBATE BETWEEN SOUL AND BODY
FROM ADDRESS TO DEBATE: GENERIC CONSIDERATIONS IN THE DEBATE BETWEEN SOUL AND BODY Brent, J. Justin Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance…
The Gaelic World and the Early Stewart Court
The Gaelic World and the Early Stewart Court Boardman, Stephen Mìorun Mòr nan Gall, ‘The Great Ill-Will of the Lowlander’? Lowland Perceptions of…
Attitudes of Gall to Gaedhel in Scotland before John of Fordun
Attitudes of Gall to Gaedhel in Scotland before John of Fordun Broun, Dauvit Mìorun Mòr nan Gall, ‘The Great Ill-Will of the Lowlander’?…
Gaelic Barbarity and Scottish Identity in the Later Middle Ages
Gaelic Barbarity and Scottish Identity in the Later Middle Ages MacGregor, Martin Mìorun Mòr nan Gall, ‘The Great Ill-Will of the Lowlander’? Lowland…
Anglo-Latin Bilingualism before 1066: Prospects and Limitations
Anglo-Latin Bilingualism before 1066: Prospects and Limitations By Olga Timofeeva Interfaces between Language and Culture in Medieval England: A Festschrift for Matti Kilpiö, edited…
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This paper argues that the texts surviving from the Old English period do not reflect the spoken language of the bulk of the population under Anglo-Saxon elite domination.
Google Translate goes Latin
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Ockham and Ambiguity
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The Competition of Authoritative Languages and Aquinas’s Theological Rhetoric
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