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Digital History and Hermeneutics
As a result of rapid advancements in computer science during recent decades, there has been an increased use of digital tools, methodologies and sources in the field of digital humanities. While opening up new opportunities for scholarship, many digital methods and tools now used for humanities research have nevertheless been developed by computer or data sciences and thus require a critical understanding of their mode of operation and functionality. The novel field of digital hermeneutics is meant to provide such a critical and reflexive frame for digital humanities research by acquiring digital literacy and skills. A new knowledge for the assessment of digital data, research infrastructure...
Lexicography in the Borderland between Knowledge and Non-Knowledge
The book contains a state-of-the-art summary of the theoretical discussions within the field of lexicography during the last decades. On this basis it presents and argues for a new general theory, called the function theory. It goes on to develop this theory in one single field, i.e. learners lexicography where it both formulates the basic elements of a general theory for learners’ dictionaries as well as a number of specific theories for special subfields such as selection, meaning, semantic relations, morphology, syntactic properties and word combinations. It contains a big number of examples extracted from existing dictionaries which are discussed from the point of view of the theories formulated.
Die althochdeutsche und altsächsische Glossographie
Es handelt sich um das erste Handbuch zur Glossenkunde des Mittelalters. Von ausgewiesenen Fachleuten verfasst, führt das Werk ein in Gegenstand und Geschichte der Glossenforschung und bietet in einem umfassenden Dokumentationsteil einen Überblick über die glossierten Texte, über zeitliche und räumliche Verteilung der Glossenhandschriften sowie über die quantitativen Verhältnisse. Kodikologische und paläographische Aspekte der Glossen werden ausführlich behandelt, Textglossierung und Glossarglossierung teils exemplarisch, teils in Überblicken dargestellt, Grenz- und Übergangsbereiche zwischen Textglossierung und Glossaren, Glossen und anderen Einzelworteintragungen usw. diskutiert. Weitere Kapitel fassen die grammatische und lexikalische Auswertung der Glossen zusammen, ordnen die Glossenhandschriften den Schreiborten zu und bieten Ansätze zu einer Geschichte der Glossographie. Sachregister und Handschriftenregister erschließen das Werk, ein Gesamtliteraturverzeichnis bietet eine Bibliographie zur Glossenforschung.
Handbook of Medieval Studies
This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.
Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics
This book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of Indo-European Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages. The collaborative work of 120 scholars from 22 countries, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics combines the exhaustive coverage of an encyclopedia with the in-depth treatment of individual monographic studies.
Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 35
Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and which promotes the more unusual interests - in music or medicine or education, for example. Articles in volume 35 include: Record of the twelfth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists at Bavarian-American Centre, University of Munich, 1-6 August 2005; Virgil the Grammarian and Bede: a preliminary study; Knowledge of whelk dyes and pigments in Anglo-Saxon England; The representation of the mind as an enclosure in Old English poetry; The origin of the numbered sections in Beowulf and in other Old English poems; An ethnic dating of Beowulf; Hrothgar's horses: feral or thoroughbred?; 'thelthryth of Ely in a lost calendar from Munich; Alfred's epistemological metaphors: eagan modes and scip modes; Bibliography for 2005.
Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 30
The pre-eminence of Anglo-Saxon England in its field can be seen as a result of its encouragement of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. Thus this volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface, in which it is shown that the unusually formulaic nature of Boniface's letters is best understood as a reflex of the saint's familiarity with vernacular composition. A wide-ranging historical contextualization of The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle illuminates the way English readers of the later tenth century may have defined themselves in contradistinction to the monstrous unknown, and a fresh reading of the gendering of female portraiture in a famous illustrated manuscript of the Psychomachia of Prudentius (CCCC 23) shows the independent ways in which Anglo-Saxon illustrators were able to respond to their models. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book; and a full index of the contents of volumes 26-30 is provided. (Previous indexes have appeared in volumes 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25.)
Katalog der althochdeutschen und altsächsischen Glossenhandschriften
Glossen sind Wort- oder Sacherklärungen, die in derselben oder einer anderen Sprache (marginal) an den Rand oder (interlinear) zwischen die Zeilen eines Textes geschrieben sind. Im frühen Mittelalter finden sich Glossen in althochdeutscher und altsächsischer Sprache in lateinischen Texten, vor allem in biblischen und kirchlichen sowie antiken und spätantiken literarischen Texten. Es sind Verständnishilfen, die Lehrer oder Schüler in lateinische Texte eintrugen, um den Sinn besser erfassen zu können. Neben den Einzelglossen, die punktuell die Bedeutung eines lateinischen Wortes angeben, sind auch Glossare, d. h. lateinisch-althochdeutsche Wörterverzeichnisse auf uns gekommen, die im k...
German Literature of the Early Middle Ages
A detailed, contextualized picture of the very beginnings of writing in German from around 750 to 1100. This second volume of the set not only presents a detailed picture of the beginnings of writing in German from its first emergence as a literary language from around 750 to 1100, but also places those earliest writings into a context. The first stages of German literature existed within a manuscript culture, so careful consideration is given to what constitutes the actual texts, but German literature also arose within a society that had recently been Christianized -- through the medium of Latin. Therefore what we understand by literature in Germany at this early period must include a great...
Wergild, Compensation and Penance
This volume offers the first comprehensive account of the monetary logic that guided the payment of wergild and blood money in early medieval conflict resolution. In the early middle ages, wergild played multiple roles: it was used to measure a person’s status, to prevent and end conflicts, and to negotiate between an individual and the agents of statehood. This collection of interlocking essays by historians, philologists and jurists represents a major contribution to the study of law and society in Western Europe during the early Middle Ages. Contributors are Lukas Bothe, Warren Brown, Stefan Esders, Wolfgang Haubrichs, Paul Hyams, Tom Lambert, Ralph W. Mathisen, Rob Meens, Han Nijdam, Lisi Oliver, Harald Siems, Karl Ubl, and Helle Vogt. See inside the book.
