Search Results - "Middle English"

Pilgrims were they all?: aspects of pilgrimage and their influence on Old and Middle English literature by Dyas, Dee

“…It then re-examines the use of this multi-faceted image in selected Middle English texts. In the process several key perspectives emerge, chiefly the pre-eminence of the concept of life as pilgrimage and the existence within it of three strands which the Church has struggled to reconcile through the centuries: interior, moral and place pilgrimage. …”
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Quantifying the Scandinavian contribution to the vocabulary of Middle English microtoponyms from Wirral and Westmorland by Rye, Eleanor

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A study of the Siege of Jerusalem in its physical, literary and historical contexts by Millar, Bonnie

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Minor and field-names of Thurgarton Wapentake, Nottinghamshire by Gregory, Rebecca Katharine

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Lylye of medicynes: an edition of the fifteenth-century translation of Bernard of Gordon’s Lilium medicinae by Connelly, Erin

“…This is an edition of the Middle English Lylye of Medicynes, a fifteenth-century translation of Bernard of Gordon’s Latin Lilium Medicinae (completed in 1305). …”
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Reflections on Metaphors for Learning Design by Dobozy, Eva, Dalziel, J.

“…Tracing the etymology of the term, Stern provides the following definition: Middle English metaphor, from Old French metaphore, from Latin meatphora, from Greek, transference, metaphor, from metapherein, to transfer: meta-, meta- + pherein, to carry. …”
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Representations of mother-son relationships in late-medieval English miscellanies, c. 1300 – c. 1500 by Sisson, Lauren Michele

“…The Auchinleck manuscript, the London and Lincoln Thornton manuscripts, and the Heege manuscript are important collections of Middle English literature, and represent a wide chronological and social span. …”
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The vitae of Bodleian Library Ms Douce 114 by Vander Veen, Brian C.

“…Bodleian Library MS Douce 114 contains the unique copy of four Middle English texts, translations of Latin vitae, all describing Continental women saints whose unusual forms of devotion set them apart from the often more sober atmosphere of late-medieval English spirituality in which the texts appeared. …”
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Unveiling revised North Korean English textbooks : language, ideology, and internationalisation by Ahn, Hyejeong, Lee, Hyejin

“…This study examines the visual and textual representations of three revised national junior middle English textbooks as part of Kim Jong Un’s educational reform and aims to answer three questions: To what extent have the revised English textbooks i) fulfilled their proposed goal of improving North Koreans’ practical English skills? …”
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‘...but have you read this?’: dialogicity in Robert Thornton’s Holy name devotions by Lutton, Rob

“…Together with other religious prose and verse, Thornton copied a number of Middle English and Latin texts, on the subject of devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus, into the folios of what is now Lincoln Cathedral MS 91. …”
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Dialect in the Viking-Age Scandinavian diaspora: the evidence of medieval minor names by Rye, Eleanor

“…Indeed, detailed consideration of the use of individual Scandinavian-derived place name elements at a national level indicates that the areas over which some Scandinavian-derived place-name elements were used increased during the Middle English period. The factors underlying the usage of Scandinavian derived toponymic vocabulary in the late-medieval period are therefore more varied than has sometimes been acknowledged.…”
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Historicising corpus stylistics: keywords and collocation in William Langland’s Piers Plowman by Cordell, Jacqueline

“…This research follows an existing tradition of corpus linguistic investigation of literary style but is groundbreaking in being the first to examine pre-Shakespearian texts written in Middle English. It builds on existing corpus linguistic theory and methods, testing their applicability to (and durability in) much more distant historical fields than generally explored in corpus stylistic investigations. …”
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