Haruko Momma & Samantha Zacher 
Old English Lexicology and Lexicography 
Essays in Honor of Antonette diPaolo Healey

Essays demonstrating how the careful study of individual words can shed immense light on texts more broadly.


Dedicated to honoring the remarkable achievements of Dr Antonette di Paolo Healey, the architect and lexicographer of the Old English Concordance, the
Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus, and the
Dictionary of Old English, the essays in this volume reflect firsthand the research made possible by Dr. Healey’s landmark contributions to her field. Each chapter highlights how the careful consideration and study of words can lead to greater insights, from an understanding of early medieval English concepts of time and identity, to reconceptualizations of canonical Old English poems, reappraisals of early medieval English authors and their works, greater understanding of the semantic fields of Old English words and manuscript traditions, and the solving of lexical puzzles.


MAREN CLEGG HYER is Professor of English at Valdosta State University; HARUKO MOMMA is Professor of English at New York University; SAMANTHA ZACHER is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Cornell University.


Contributors: Brianna Daigneault, Damian Fleming, Roberta Frank, Robert Getz, Joyce Hill, Joan Holland, Maren Clegg Hyer, Christopher A. Jones, R.M. Liuzza, Haruko Momma, Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, Andy Orchard, Stephen Pelle, Christine Rauer, Terri Sanderson, Donald Scragg, Paul Szarmach, M. J. Toswell, Audrey Walton, Samantha Zacher.

Daftar Isi

Introduction – Maren Clegg Hyer and Haruko Momma and Samantha Zacher

Beowulf and the Art of Invention – Andy Orchard

Juliana 53a Revisited (hætsð hæþenweoh) – Robert Getz

Wounds and Compensation in the Old English
Soul and Body Poems – Christopher A Jones

Defining and Refining: Ælfric’s Access to Gregory’s
Homiliae in Evangelia – Joyce Hill

Lambeth Homily 4 and the Textual Tradition of the
Visio Pauli – Stephen Pelle

‘A Vision of Souls’: Charity, Judgment, and the Utility of the Old English
Vision of St. Paul – Haruko Momma

The Vocabulary of Sin and the Eight Cardinal Sins – Paul E Szarmach

The King (and Queen) and ‘I’: Self-Construction in Some Anglo-Saxon Royal Documents – Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe

Anglo-Saxon Maccabees: Political Theology in Ælfric’s
Lives of Saints – Samantha Zacher

Nunne in Early Old English: Misogyny in its Literary Context – Christine Rauer

Cingulum est custodiam: Semiotics and the Semantic Range of
gyrdels – Maren Clegg Hyer

Island Time: The English Day and the Christian Hours – Roy M Liuzza

‘Revising Hell’: The Voices of Teachers in Anglo-Saxon Studies and Anglo-Saxon England – Damian Fleming

Cryptography and the Lexicographer: Codifying the Code – Donald G Scragg

Genre and the
Dictionary of Old English – Jane Toswell

Reading
Beowulf with Isidore’s
Etymologies – Roberta Frank

Tentang Penulis

Maren Clegg Hyer is Assistant Professor of English, Snow College.