Studies in English Language and Literature : Doubt Wisely (Hardcover)

Introduction; 1: On language and linguistics; 1: Names will never hurt me; 2: The vocabulary of very late Old English; 3: Late copies of Anglo-Saxon charters; 4: Reasonable doubt, reasoned choice; 5: Alexander Ellis and the virtues of doubt; 6: About the evolution of Standard English; 2: On words and phrases; 7: Grendel's arm and the law; 8: Does wyrd bið ful arœd mean Tate is wholly inexorable'?; 9: Old English swefn and Genesis B line 720; 10: The sword mightier than the pen?; 11: Metrical stress on alliterating finite verbs in clause-initial a-verses; 12: Old English habban+ past participle of a verb of motion; 3: On the interpretation of a single text; 13: Doubt and time in La3amon's Brut; 14: Unscholarly Latinity and Margery Kempe; 15: Doubts about Medea, Briseyda, and Helen; 16: Woman-kenitings in the G?sla saga Surssonar; 17: ‘Symtyme the fende'; 18: Medieval ‘allegorical imagery' in c. 1630; 4: On taxonomies, genres, and sources; 19: The swallow's nest and the spider's web; 20: The idea of the ‘Christian epic'; 21: Ælfric's sources reconsidered; 22: Ulysses and Circe in King Alfred's Boethius; 23: Poetic inspiration and prosaic translation; 24: The metre of the Ormulum; 5: On Assumptions; 25: Textual boundaries in Anglo-Saxon works on time (and in some Old English poems); 26: Wulf and Eadwacer, The Wife's Lament, and the discovery of the individual in Old English verse; 27: St Æthelthryth; 28: Tacitus, Old English heroic poetry, and ethnographic preconceptions; 29: How deliberate is deliberate verbal repetition?