What to Call a Lyric? Middle English Lyrics and their Manuscript Titles

2005 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 671-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Boffey
Keyword(s):  
Middle English

Two Candidate Approaches o Text Sequencing: An Addendum to “The Diachrony Debate: A Tutorial on Methods”

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean A. Forbes
Keyword(s):  
Computational Biology ◽  
Middle English ◽  
Diagnostic Tool ◽  
Reliable Method ◽  
Biblical Hebrew ◽  
Quantitative Comparison ◽  
Curve Analysis ◽  
Single Feature ◽  
S Curve ◽  
Temporal Ordering

In a recent essay published in this journal, I illustrated the limitations one may encounter when sequencing texts temporally using s-curve analysis. I also introduced seriation, a more reliable method for temporal ordering much used in both archaeology and computational biology. Lacking independently ordered Biblical Hebrew (BH) data to assess the potential power of seriation in the context of diachronic studies, I used classic Middle English data originally compiled by Ellegård. In this addendum, I reintroduce and extend s-curve analysis, applying it to one rather noisy feature of Middle English. My results support Holmstedt’s assertion that s-curve analysis can be a useful diagnostic tool in diachronic studies. Upon quantitative comparison, however, the five-feature seriation results derived in my former paper are found to be seven times more accurate than the single-feature s-curve results presented here. 

INFLUENCE OF MIDDLE ENGLISH NORTHERN DIALECTS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
O. Hyryn
Keyword(s):  
Middle English ◽  
English Language ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
North Eastern

The article deals with the phonetic, grammatic and lexical features which penetrated into the London Dialect from the Middle English Northern and North-Eastern dialects and evenyually were fixed in the literary language. The article claims that the penetration of the Northern features took place as the result of the London dialect base shift which took place due to the extralinguistic reasons, namely by social and demographic reasons. The article describes both direct influence (lexical) and indirect (partially phonetic and partially grammatic). The article claims that systemic changes in English, such as reduction of unstressed syllables and concequent simplification of grammatical paradigms were greatly fascilitated by the influence of Northern dialects on the London dialect in Late Middle English period

Janet Cowen (ed. and trans.), On Famous Women. The Middle English Translation of Boccaccio’s De Mulieribus Claris. Edited from London, British Library, MS Additional 10304. Middle English Texts, 52. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015, 131 pp.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 459-461
Author(s):  
Garry W. Trompf
Keyword(s):  
Middle English ◽  
English Translation ◽  
British Library ◽  
De Mulieribus Claris

G. Matteo Roccati (ed. and trans.), Moralité de Fortune, Maleur, Eur, Povreté, Franc Arbitre et Destinee [sic]. Biblioteca di Studi Francesi [6], Toronto: Rosenberg & Sellier, 2018, 240 pp.

Pursuing Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts: Essays in Honour of Ralph Hanna. Ed. Simon Horobin and Aditi Nafde. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017, xxiv, 262 pp.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 272-272
Author(s):  
Andrew Breeze
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Middle English ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Literary Export

Ralph Hanna is, like Henry James and T. S. Eliot, a successful American literary export. Born in Los Angeles in 1942, he rose to be Oxford’s Professor of Palaeography. His phenomenal industry as editor and critic is now saluted by fellow-medievalists in a volume as distinguished as its honorand. Its contents are as follows.

Transforming the Vulgate: Comestor and the Middle English Genesis and Exodus

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-152
Author(s):  
Brian S. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Middle English ◽  
Cursor Mundi

The article studies the literary or rhetorical effects of the transformation into plain narrative of biblical material originally compiled from different and often incomplete sources. Avoiding allegorical interpretations of the Bible’s theocentric history, Comestor in his “Historia Scholastica” and the Middle English poems based upon it, “Genesis and Exodus” and “Cursor Mundi,” sought to clarify difficult passages for the instruction and entertainment, rather than moral exhortation, of their for the most part unlearned, or illiterate, audiences. One result of their work was to fill or paper over lacunae and ambiguities that pique the curiosity of readers wanting to know more of the human stories implicit in the incidents described. Key passages in these texts will be examined.

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