Papers on Language & Literature articles from June 2005

Papers on Language & Literature archives from June 2005

Animals and symbolic boundaries.(The Gypsies, the Rom: A Culture at the Borders)
June 22, 2005... TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY JAMES HILL from The Gypsies, the Rom: A Culture at the Borders The gypsies are constantly pushed to assimilate into the dominant society, which imposes on them its rules and its patterns. They need to...

Jane Zatta: medievalist.(works)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2005... Jane Zatta is probably best known for her Chaucer web site, a superb pedagogical resource widely praised by scholars and students alike. But it may not be clear to those outside her field of research that she was an accomplished and innovative...

The Vie Seinte Osith: hagiography and politics in Anglo-Norman England.
June 22, 2005... The Vie Seinte Osith is a little-known Anglo-Norman verse life of an early English virgin martyr. The saint commemorated in this life is a pseudo-historical composite made up of three Anglo-Saxon holy women connected to the seventh and tenth...

The Life of St Osith.(Vie Seinte Osith)(Biography)
June 22, 2005... REVISED AND ANNOTATED BY JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TEXT: The text, written in two columns per page, begins, after the opening rubric in red, with an illuminated initial C , five lines high. Within the edited text, a large...

Acknowledgements.
June 22, 2005... The Editors are very grateful to Professor Delbert Russell who has generously permitted the publication of the text of the Life of St Osith from his ongoing edition of the Campsey manuscript on the MARGOT web-site, , and who has offered many...

The Life of St Osith: introduction.
June 22, 2005... The foundresses of Britain, as constructed by that country's post-Conquest inhabitants, are becoming better known than they used to be. The most important secular story for the Angevins and Plantagenets and their successors has long been...