From Anglo-Saxon to Early Middle English brings together eleven papers on aspects of English language and literature from the eighth to the thirteenth century, written in honour of E. G. Stanley, the recently retired Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford. The papers, written by eminent scholars from Britain, North America, and Germany, reflect the range of E. G. Stanley's work, examining philology, metre, and literary style. However, the focus of the volume is on the period of rapid change from late Anglo-Saxon to early medieval England, and the contributors consider in detail the ways in which both language and literary forms developed during this time. The volume contains a comprehensive Bibliography of E. G. Stanley's publications, together with an account of his distinguished career.
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Did Grendel's mother sit on Beowulf?, Fred C. Robinson; An Alfredian legacy? - on the fortunes and fate of some items of Boethian vocabulary in Old English, Janet Bately; some reflections on the metre of "Christ III", Jane Roberts; a grammarian's Greek-Latin glossary in Anglo-Saxon England, Helmut Gneuss; poetic words in Late-Old-English prose, Roberta Frank; establishing the evidence, Terry Hoad; apocalypse and invasion in Late-Anglo-Saxon England, Malcolm Godden; the Englishness of Old English, Bruce Mitchell; line-end hyphens in the "Ormulum" manuscript, Robert Burchfield; the paradox of the archaic and the modern in Lazamon's "Brut", Derek Brewer; an Early-English "Entfuehrung" - a note on "Floris and Blauncheflur, Douglas Gray.
