This book is a selection of papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME11), held at the University of Florence, Italy from 5 to 8 February 2019. The papers, organised under three headings "Textual Interlacing", "Borrowing and the Lexicon", and "Language at Different Levels", interface different fields of linguistics, literature and philology in the context of Medieval England and offer a holistic view of current research within Middle English studies. The contributors employ a wealth of different new and traditional approaches and methodologies, and deal with materials ranging from canonical literary works to scientific and practical texts, including electronic corpora and databases.
Author(s): Letizia Vezzosi (ed.)
Series: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, 59
Publisher: Peter Lang
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 308
City: Berlin
Contents 5
List of Contributors 7
Preface 9
Part I: Textual Interlacing
Claudio Cataldi / A Re-assessment of Poema Morale and its Influence on Penitence for Wasted Life 15
Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti – Julia Bolton Holloway / The Soul a City: Margery meets Julian 33
Omar Khalaf / Patronage, Print and the Education of the Gentry in Late Medieval England: The Case of Earl Rivers’s 'Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers' 45
Patrizia Lendinara / On the Trail of Bibbesworth 59
Alessandra Petrina / The Construction of the European Intellectual: Petrarch, Humanism, and Middle English Literature 87
Part II: Borrowing and Lexicon
Angelika Lutz / Changes of Political Rule and the Changing Use of OE Gærsum(a) ‘Treasure’ (< ON Gersemi) in Middle English 111
Rafał Molencki / The Rise of the Verb 'Happen' in Middle English 129
Louise Sylvester – Harry Parkin – Richard Ingham / Patterns of Borrowing, Obsolescence and Polysemy in the Technical Vocabulary of Middle English 143
Part III: Language at Different Levels
Martti Mäkinen / Rhetorical Re-analysis of Metadiscourse Items in Henry Daniel’s Middle English Prologue to 'Liber Uricrisiarum' 171
Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden / The Evidentiary Status of Back Spellings and English Historical Phonology 195
Merja Stenroos / What, If Anything, Are Middle English Dialects? Some Thoughts on a Changing Concept 217
Brita Wårvik / The Demise of Ambiguous Adverb/Conjunctions and Manuscript Variation: A Case Study of 'Tho', 'Then' and 'When' in the 'Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester' 245
Richard Zimmermann / The Loss of Negative Concord with Negative PPs 273
Index of terms and names 301
