Inside Old English: Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119121396 ISBN 13: 9781119121398

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016

Synopsis

Inside Old English: Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell offers readers a comprehensive insight into the world of Old English. * Brings together original essays written by prominent specialists in the field in honour of Bruce Mitchell, the eminent Oxford scholar and co-author of the bestselling A Guide to Old English, 6th edition * Encourages readers to engage with the literary, cultural, intellectual, religious and historical contexts of Old English texts * Explores the problems scholars face in interpreting and editing Old English texts * Contributors provide authoritative and informative perspectives, drawing out connections between different contexts and pointing readers towards the essential secondary literature for each topic

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From the Back Cover:

Inside Old English: Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell gives readers a comprehensive insight into the world of Old English.

Consisting of a series of original essays written by prominent specialists in the field, Inside Old English enables readers to engage with the literary, cultural, intellectual, religious and historical discourses of Old English. It gives them an appreciation of the relationship between Old English authors and scribes, and of how language and usage have changed and developed over time, thus helping them to understand the problems modern-day scholars face in interpreting and editing Old English texts.

Each of the contributors writes in a straightforward and authoritative style, drawing out connections between different contexts and pointing readers towards the essential secondary literature for each topic.

About the Author:

JOHN WALMSLEY, Professor emeritus of Englische Sprache und Literatur und ihre Didaktik at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, read English Language and Literature at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and General Linguistics and Education at Edinburgh and Durham Universities respectively. He held teaching posts at Hamburg University and St. Mary's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, before being appointed to his chair at Bielefeld. From 1993 to 1994 he was Visiting Fellow at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics (RCEAL) Cambridge, England. His publications cover topics in linguistics, applied linguistics and foreign-language teaching, and the history of linguistics. Current interests include the role of linguistics in education, linguistic terminology and its history, and late medieval English grammar.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1119121396
• ISBN 13: 9781119121398
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Walmsley John