Latin and the Old English Vernacular

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Sources of Anglo-Saxon Culture

Organizer Name

Benjamin Weber

Organizer Affiliation

Princeton Univ.

Presider Name

Benjamin Weber

Paper Title 1

The Motif of Paradoxical Tasks and Some Anglo-Saxon Excommunication Rituals

Presenter 1 Name

Thomas D. Hill

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Cornell Univ.

Paper Title 2

"Uia Secta and Iringaes Uueg": Associations and Implications of Some Latin-Old English Glosses

Presenter 2 Name

Joseph M. Leake

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Connecticut

Start Date

8-5-2014 1:30 PM

Session Location

Bernhard 204

Description

The papers in this session illustrate a wide range of approaches to the traditional discipline of source study: examinations of Old English glosses, Anglo-Saxon appropriations of Classical rhetoric, and studies of literary motifs across languages and cultures.

Benjamin D. Weber