Issue 12
Issue Editor: Larry Swain | May 2009
Letter from the Editor
General Articles
Liturgical Readings of the Cathedral Office for Saint Cuthbert
Karmen Lenz, Macon State College
Abstract: The tenth-century rhymed Office of Saint Cuthbert incorporates language from Bede's poetic Vita Sancti Cuthberti. The liturgical meditation recreates the reflective quality of Bede's poetry and further realizes its figural significance to instruct laity in interpreting Cuthbert's life.
Metrical Foregrounding in the Old Saxon Heliand and Genesis Poems
Douglas Simms, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Abstract: The Old Saxon Heliand and Vatican Genesis and the Old English Genesis B contain a number of metrically aberrant verses known generally as heavy hypermetrical verses. This paper argues that these verses serve to highlight portions of the text for the audience.
King Alfred's Scholarly Writings and the Authorship of the First Fifty Prose Psalms
Michael Treschow, UBC Okanagan, Paramjit Gill, UBC Okanagan, & Tim B. Swartz, Simon Fraser University
Abstract: A great part of King Alfred's renown comes from his translations of Latin writings into Old English. The group of translations that he gets credit for, however, has changed over the years. Presently four translations are attributed to him: the Pastoral Care, the Boethius, the Soliloquies, and the first fifty Prose Psalms. The first three works openly name Alfred as translator and provide strong internal evidence that they are Alfred's work. The Prose Psalms, however, lack Alfred's name. Although now widely endorsed as Alfred's on the basis of studies by Janet Bately and Patrick O'Neil, the Prose Psalms do not allow the same confidence in Alfred's authorship as with the three named translations. Bately's and O'Neill's arguments exhibit several weaknesses. Their conclusion, moreover, breaks down when stylometric analysis is applied to the translations associated with Alfred. The statistical methods employed in this study indicate that Alfred should not be regarded as the translator of the Prose Psalms after all.
Columns
The Forum
Digitizing Numismatic: Getting the Fitzwilliam Museum's Coins to the World-Wide Web
Jonathan Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Review Essay—Regna et Regnum: Studies of Regions within the Carolingian Empire
Cullen J. Chandler, Lycoming College
Saints and Sacred Space: An Interactive Database—A Call for Collaborators
Margaret Cormack, College of Charleston and Donald Prudlo, Jacksonville State University
Electronic Medievalia
Byte me: Technological Education and the Humanties
Daniel Paul O'Donnell, University of Lethbridge
Continental Business
Michel Aaij, Auburn University Montgmory
babelisms
The Postmodern Hall in Beowulf: Endings Embedded in Beginnings
Helen T. Bennett, Eastern Kentucky University
Philological Inquiries
Michael D. C. Drout, Wheaton College, Massachusetts and Scott Kleinman, California State University, Northridge
Reviews
Bately, Janet, and Anton Englert, eds, Ohthere's Voyages: A Late 9th-century Account of Voyages along the Coasts of Norway and Denmark and its Cultural Context. Reviewed by Craig R. Davis.
Cooper, Alan, Bridges, Law and Power in Medieval England 700–1400. Reviewed by D. K. Smith.
Corona, Gabriella, Ælfric's Life of Saint Basil the Great: Background and Context. Reviewed by Rhonda L. McDaniel.
Fleming, Donald F. and Janet M. Pope, Henry I and the Anglo-Norman World: Studies in Memory of C. Warren Hollister. Reviewed by Jean A. Truax.
Laing, Lloyd, The Archaeology of Celtic Britain and Ireland: c. AD 400—1200. Reviewed by Sally-Jayne Gilpin.
Lee, Stuart D. and Elizabeth Solopova, The Keys of Middle-earth: Discovering Medieval Literature through the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien. Reviewed by John Damon.
McCormack, Patrick, Albion. Reviewed by Howard M. Wiseman.
Shippey, Tom, The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm's Mythology of the Monstrous. Reviewed by Craig R. Davis.
In Memoriam
Margaret Gelling [At Times Online]
Alan Vince [At The Guardian]
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