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Glossing wind names in Low German in Salisbury? A newly discovered text in London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A.xii
2018
It's an essay investigating a text on the names of the winds in ms London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A.xii (s. xi), where both Latin and vernacular names are given. The text may ultimately derive from Einhard's Life of Charlemagne (ch. 29), but it appears as a self-contained text in the form of a Class Glossary. Although inserted in a manuscript copied in England at Salisbury, the vernacular words of the text are not in Old English. The essay makes a case for a possible connection with Flanders, with the text being one of the very rare surviving specimen of the Old Low Franconian language.
Nouveau dictionnaire français, allemand et polonais
1772
Vārdnīcas teksts paralēlās slejās, franču, vācu un poļu valodā.
‘feor ond neah’. Scritti di Filologia germanica in memoria di Augusto Scaffidi Abbate
1983
Making Sense of Apparent Chaos: Recontextualising the So-Called > (B 24.5)
2011
Il saggio analizza una serie di glosse relative ai nomi dei venti e ai nomi dei punti cardinali che compaiono nei manoscritti anglosassoni, studiandone relazioni e trasmissione.
'Preface' al volume Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon Egland
2014
The Preface to the volume Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England: Adopting and Adapting Saints’ Lives into Old English Prose describes the contents of the essays within the aims of the larger project on Anglo-Saxon and early Middle English hagiography
The Descensus ad inferos in the Old English Prose Life of St Guthlac and Vercelli Homily xxiii
2014
Concetta Giliberto’s essay investigates the motif of the descensus ad inferos in the anonymous Old English version of Felix’s Vita S. Guthlaci and Vercelli Homily xxiii, two texts which have been shown to be independently derived from a now lost vernacular translation of the Latin Vita. Apart from some differences in the two texts, the account of the devilish persecution of St Guthlac culminating in the episode of the descensus ad inferos is a most revealing case study of the Anglo-Saxon appropriation of the hagiographic genre, in that one of the most classical topoi of the saints’ lives narratives, that is the struggle with demons, itself demonstrably traceable to the very foundational hag…
'Forgotten Missionaries: St Augustine of Canterbury in Anglo-Saxon and Post-Conquest England’
2014
The essay provides a full overview of the alternate fortune of the cult of St Augustine of Canterbury and other missionaries, who hold a distinctive place in Anglo-Saxon hagiography. The essay takes into examination both literary and liturgical witnesses and both pre- and post-Conquest texts, in Latin and the vernacular. The narrative of the mission and of Augustine himself offered by Bede, although inevitably partial, shaped all the successive representations of the saint in the few literary witnesses dating from the Anglo-Saxon period. The Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum will remain the major source also in post-Conquest England and be largely drawn upon by Goscelin. For its part, …
The interplay of various Scandinavian mathematical journals (1859-1953) and the road towards internationalization
2018
Abstract The merger of various Nordic mathematical journals in 1953 into Mathematica Scandinavica (for research) and into Nordisk Matematisk Tidsskrift (for the more elementary topics, from 1979 NORMAT) confirmed increasing cooperation between matured Scandinavian mathematical communities. The merger originated from practical considerations including the wish to have a critical mass for economically viable publications. The present paper presents the basic steps in the development of several Scandinavian mathematical journals from 1859, the year of the foundation of the first general mathematical journal in a Scandinavian language, the Danish Mathematisk Tidsskrift, through various convergi…
Crossing the Atlantic at the turn of the Millennium: friends and foes
2022
Il saggio analizza le modalità dell'incontro tra un gruppo di Vichinghi e le popolazioni indigene delle coste orientali del Canada al momento della scoperta dell'America, intorno all'anno 1000, come narrato dalle saghe islandesi che ci hanno conservato la memoria di questi avvenimenti (Vinland Sagas). Documenti situabili a metà strada tra resoconti attendibili e fiction - un po' per la loro natura, un po' per le caratteristiche della trasmissione culturale norrena, e un po' per la distanza temporale tra gli eventi narrati e la loro registrazione in forma scritta - le saghe ci narrano di incontri e interazioni mossi principalmente da curiosità e desiderio di commerciare. Gli scontri, che pur…
Some Reflections on the Gothic Optative
2015
The verbal systems of the earliest Indo-European languages are not so congruous with one another as the nominal paradigms. The reconstruction of IE is conformably fraught with far greater difficulty, and there is plenty of room for doubt. In this paper a particular morph will be dealt with, which does not go back as such to Indo-European. The proto-language must have possessed the linguistic unit employed in Gothic to form the verbal endings that are discussed here. Traces of this unit are found in other IE languages, as a matter of fact, and Gothic has utilized it in its own way. The issue will be discussed inside what is called the Greco-Aryan model. Indeed, based chiefly on Greek and San…