Germanic Texts And Latin Models


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Germanic Texts And Latin Models


Germanic Texts And Latin Models
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Author : Karin E. Olsen
language : en
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Release Date : 2001

Germanic Texts And Latin Models written by Karin E. Olsen and has been published by Peeters Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.


Medieval writers who 'translated' Latin texts into Germanic vernaculars not only transmitted their originals, but, driven by individualistic impulses and cultural conventions, also transformed them. This process of domesticating texts was fundamentally creative and might more accurately be described as 'reconstruction'. The essays in Germanic Texts and Latin Models: Medieval Reconstructions explore the ways in which Latin texts and traditions were reconstructed in Old English, Old Icelandic and Old High German and cover a range of genres: legal texts, genealogies, histories, and poetry. They examine how medieval Germanic authors negotiated the need to transmit their models while at the same time fulfilling their own political, artistic and didactic objectives in the creation of vernacular texts. These new studies demonstrate the variety of ways in which medieval Germanic texts were indebted to their Latin exemplars, while reflecting their new culturally specific circumstances in the complex nexus of Latin learning and Germanic lore.



Interrogating The Germanic


Interrogating The Germanic
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Author : Matthias Friedrich
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-11-23

Interrogating The Germanic written by Matthias Friedrich and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-23 with History categories.


Any reader of scholarship on the ancient and early medieval world will be familiar with the term 'Germanic', which is frequently used as a linguistic category, ethnonym, or descriptive identifier for a range of forms of cultural and literary material. But is the term meaningful, useful, or legitimate? The term, frequently applied to peoples, languages, and material culture found in non-Roman north-western and central Europe in classical antiquity, and to these phenomena in the western Roman Empire’s successor states, is often treated as a legitimate, all-encompassing name for the culture of these regions. Its usage is sometimes intended to suggest a shared social identity or ethnic affinity among those who produce these phenomena. Yet, despite decades of critical commentary that have highlighted substantial problems, its dominance of scholarship appears not to have been challenged. This edited volume, which offers contributions ranging from literary and linguistic studies to archaeology, and which span from the first to the sixteenth centuries AD, examines why the term remains so pervasive despite its problems, offering a range of alternative interpretative perspectives on the late and post-Roman worlds.



Germanic Language Histories From Below 1700 2000


Germanic Language Histories From Below 1700 2000
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Author : Stephan Elspaß
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-07-26

Germanic Language Histories From Below 1700 2000 written by Stephan Elspaß and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-26 with Foreign Language Study categories.


Focusing on the sociolinguistic history of Germanic languages, the current volume challenges the traditional teleological approach of language historiography. The 30 contributions present alternative histories of ten ‘big’ as well as ‘small’ Germanic languages and varieties in the last 300 years. Topics covered in this book include language variation and change and the politics of language contact and choice, seen against the background of standardization processes of written and oral text genres and from the viewpoint of larger sections of the population.



Influence Of Text Type On Word Order Of Old Germanic Languages


Influence Of Text Type On Word Order Of Old Germanic Languages
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Author : Anna Cichosz
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2010

Influence Of Text Type On Word Order Of Old Germanic Languages written by Anna Cichosz and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with English language categories.


The book examines the word order of two Old Germanic languages, Old English and Old High German, using a corpus containing samples of three text types: poetry, original prose and translated prose. Thanks to this methodology, it is possible to compare word order patterns in Old English and Old High German, eliminating differences which may be due to stylistic or technical reasons (rhythm, rhyme, Latin influences), as well as to see to what extent text type determines word order and to check whether this phenomenon is universal (triggering similar behaviour in both analysed languages). The book also disproves the hypothesis of the West Germanic syntax, presenting data which show that the word order of the two languages started to diversify already during the Old English/High German period, i. e. before the 11th century AD.



A History Of The German Language Through Texts


A History Of The German Language Through Texts
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Author : Thomas Gloning
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-03

A History Of The German Language Through Texts written by Thomas Gloning and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03 with Foreign Language Study categories.


Written in a lively and accessible style, the book looks at the history of German through a wide range of texts, from medical, legal and scientific writing to literature, everyday newspapers and adverts.



English Historical Linguistics Volume 1


English Historical Linguistics Volume 1
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Author : Alexander Bergs
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-05-29

English Historical Linguistics Volume 1 written by Alexander Bergs and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


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Old English


Old English
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Author : Laurel Brinton
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-09-25

Old English written by Laurel Brinton and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


This volume provides an in-depth account of Old English, organized by linguistic level. Individual chapters, written by recognized experts in the field, review the state of the art in phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic studies of Old English. Key areas of debate, including dialectology, language contact, standardization, and literary language, are also explored. The volume sets the scene with a chapter on pre-Old English and ends with a chapter discussing textual resources available for the study of earlier English.



Freedom Imprisonment And Slavery In The Pre Modern World


Freedom Imprisonment And Slavery In The Pre Modern World
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Author : Albrecht Classen
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-04-19

Freedom Imprisonment And Slavery In The Pre Modern World written by Albrecht Classen and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-19 with History categories.


Contrary to common assumptions, medieval and early modern writers and poets often addressed the high value of freedom, whether we think of such fable authors as Marie de France or Ulrich Bonerius. Similarly, medieval history knows of numerous struggles by various peoples to maintain their own freedom or political independence. Nevertheless, as this study illustrates, throughout the pre-modern period, the loss of freedom could happen quite easily, affecting high and low (including kings and princes) and there are many literary texts and historical documents that address the problems of imprisonment and even enslavement (Georgius of Hungary, Johann Schiltberger, Hans Ulrich Krafft, etc.). Simultaneously, philosophers and theologians discussed intensively the fundamental question regarding free will (e.g., Augustine) and political freedom (e.g., John of Salisbury). Moreover, quite a large number of major pre-modern poets spent a long time in prison where they composed some of their major works (Boethius, Marco Polo, Charles d'Orléans, Thomas Malory, etc.). This book brings to light a vast range of relevant sources that confirm the existence of this fundamental and impactful discourse on freedom, imprisonment, and enslavement.



Vernacular Verse Histories In Early Medieval England And Francia


Vernacular Verse Histories In Early Medieval England And Francia
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Author : Catalin Taranu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-03-08

Vernacular Verse Histories In Early Medieval England And Francia written by Catalin Taranu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-08 with Literary Criticism categories.


In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Maldon, and the Waltharius as participating in alternative modes of history-writing that functioned in a larger ecology of narrative forms, including Latinate Christian history and the biblical epic. These modes employed the conceit of their participating in a tradition of oral verse for a variety of purposes: from political propaganda to constructing origin myths for early medieval nationhood or heroic masculinity, and sometimes for challenging these paradigms. The more complex of these historical visions actively meditated on their own relationship to truthfulness and fictionality while also performing sophisticated (and often subversive) cultural and socio-emotional work for its audiences. By rethinking canonical categories of historiographical discourse from within medieval textual productions, Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia: The Bard and the Rag-Picker aims to recover a part of the wide array of narrative poetic forms through which medieval communities made sense of their past and structured their socio-emotional experience.



Abortion In The Early Middle Ages C 500 900


Abortion In The Early Middle Ages C 500 900
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Author : Zubin Mistry
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2015

Abortion In The Early Middle Ages C 500 900 written by Zubin Mistry and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.


First full-length study of attitudes to abortion in the early medieval west.