<i>Uterque Lingua / Ægðer Gereord</i>: Ælfric’s Grammatical Vocabulary and the Winchester Tradition

Chapman, Don

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“…152 The use of etymologies is also very common in the writings of his protégé, AElfric of Eynsham. 153 In late Anglo-Saxon England, hagiographers are used to explaining the saints' lives through qualities contained in their names. In the Narratio metrica S. Swithuni, Wulfstan of Winchester states that Bishop AEthelwold was a 'renowned bishopworthy in merit and name'.…”

Section: The Taste For Translation and Etymologiesmentioning

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Se ðe oðran naman wæs geciged: the Naming of Bishops and Clerics in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Lestremau

2024

Anglo-Saxon England

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In studying medieval societies, etymology can help us to understand words and their uses. Names, too, can be interpreted as having their own meanings. Moreover, between the Carolingian era and the Gregorian reform, clerics and monks belonged to increasingly distinct categories of society. As these assertions were often true in early medieval England, it is legitimate to ask whether the names of ecclesiastics were affected. Implicit norms affect the choice of their names, which seem less varied than those of the aristocrats. Their names, although belonging to the same culture as the ecclesiastics themselves, were often Latinised or accompanied by specific titles. Sometimes the name was changed when someone became a cleric (cloister name); sometimes double names were adopted; sometimes a child’s name reflected his parents’ intention for him to be an ecclesiastic (clerical name). The aim of this article is to assess the role of these practices in ninth- to eleventh-century England.

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Section: The Taste For Translation and Etymologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Se ðe oðran naman wæs geciged: the Naming of Bishops and Clerics in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Lestremau

2024

Anglo-Saxon England

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“…Classroom instruction likely took place in Latin, though there is evidence even from Bede's time of translations used in teaching. Beginning with Alfred and continuing through the Benedictine Reform, English seems to have taken a much more prominent role (Bullough, ; Chapman, ). The Colloquies illustrate, vividly and perhaps in exaggerated fashion, the everyday life of an Anglo‐Saxon student, which seems to have been a daily round of reading, memorization, and recitation, punctuated by meals, bathroom breaks, recess periods, church services, and, if the colloquies are to be believed, frequent beatings for all manner of offenses.…”

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A brief history of Anglo‐Saxon education

Weber

2018

History Compass

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While the Anglo-Saxon period is not always considered the most dynamic milieu for medieval education, recent work in the field belies that impression. Since the 1980s, Anglo-Latinists have edited, translated, and analyzed glosses, treatises, letters, and prefaces that enrich our understanding of Anglo-Saxon education. The turn in the 1990s towards the study of literacy, and subsequent interest in bilingualism, have situated Old English literary texts against the background of educational theory and practice. In recent years, interest in education seems only to have accelerated. Two recent monographs, Emily Thornbury's Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England (2014) and Irina Dumitrescu's The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature (2018), push the boundaries of the field by exploring Anglo-Saxon educational experience in a variety of literary texts. Simultaneously, work on the textual cultures of Anglo-Saxon England-increasingly collaborative and digital-continues to elucidate what and how the Anglo-Saxons read. The recent dynamism of the field offers new opportunities for both Anglo-Saxonists and historians of education going forward.

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Change from Above, Language Contact, and Individual Change in Ælfric’s Linguistic Terminology

Yakovenko

2019

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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The paper focuses on linguistic terminology used by Ælfric (10th c.) in his translation of an anonymous Latin grammar (Excerptiones de arte grammatica anglicе) going back to Priscian and Donatus’ works. Ælfric’s grammatical metalanguage, comprising loan words, semantic loans, loan translations, and periphrastic expressions created for explanatory purposes, is characterized by great diversity. A question arises whether these terms, remaining occasional, made any impact on the language system and can be thus evaluated as change from above.The paper combines a traditional semantic, morphological, and functional description of Ælfric’s terminology and its consideration within the frame of sociolinguistics; the analysis is supplemented by a cross-linguistic study of Ælfric’s terms with remarks on other Germanic languages. The results achieved enable us to argue that Ælfric’s linguistic terminology, being innovative, displays some features of change from above, arising from language contact and individual change.

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Uterque Lingua / Ægðer Gereord: Ælfric’s Grammatical Vocabulary and the Winchester Tradition

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

Se ðe oðran naman wæs geciged: the Naming of Bishops and Clerics in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Se ðe oðran naman wæs geciged: the Naming of Bishops and Clerics in Late Anglo-Saxon England

A brief history of Anglo‐Saxon education

Change from Above, Language Contact, and Individual Change in Ælfric’s Linguistic Terminology

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