The Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels: Language, Author and Context - Paperback

by Julia Fernández Cuesta (Editor), Sara M. Pons-Sanz (Editor)

The peer-reviewed Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.

Back Jacket

Aldred's interlinear gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels is a key text of late Old Northumbrian. The papers in this collection approach the gloss from a variety of perspectives to shed light on numerous issues, such as the authorship of the gloss, its morphosyntax and vocabulary, its sources and intertextual relations, and Aldred's cultural affiliations. Given its coverage, the collection will be of interest to scholars interested in Old English and historical linguistics.

Author Biography

Julia Fernández Cuesta, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain; Sara M. Pons-Sanz, University of Cardiff, UK.